26 December 2012

Will Egypt become a totalitarian state?

.... As the Islamist Prime Minister of Turkey, Recep Tayyip Erdogan once said, “democracy is just the train we board to reach our destination.” Displaying this kind of flexibility, Sheikh Yusuf al-Qaradawi, suggested that Islamic law, sharia, should be implemented gradually in Egypt: “I think that in the first five years, there should be no chopping off of hands.” One must prepare the ground first.

However, the final destination has been clear from the beginning. Brotherhood founder al-Banna announced: “it is the nature of Islam to dominate, not to be dominated, to impose its laws on all nations and extend its power to the entire planet.”

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