Let freedom reign ... as radical Islamists destroy their own history and vandalize the monuments  from Timbuktu's golden age in the 16th century. (Located on an old Saharan trading route along which salt from the Arab north was exchanged for gold and slaves from the south, Timbuktu blossomed as an Islamic seat of learning, home to priests, scribes and jurists.)

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... as Muslim faithful follow the direction of the Prophet who said that each time that someone builds something on top of a grave, it needs to be pulled back to the ground so that future generations don't get confused, and start venerating the saints as if they are God.

qwerty,

good dance of model agnosticism :3

Get serious, Inanna. Approx. half the population did not vote for this guy (including none of Christian Copts, already a disadvantaged minority. )
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They have already experienced an uptick in church burnings and mini-pogroms since Mubarak was ousted.
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He only got just over 50% so lots of Muslims didn't vote for him either.
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And from what I've read out of Mali, lots of Muslims are most unhappy with the fanatical Wahabbi's (Saudi Arabia's state religion).
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Note: Timbuktu is in Mali.

EasternOrthodox,

thank you for dropping in and offering your models :3

One of the 'reasons' I made this thread

The Wahabbi hang-up with saints reminds me of the more fanatical Protestants at the time of the Reformation (not to be confused with modern-day fundamentalists)
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There were the iconoclasts, busy ridding churches of graven images.
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There are a number of other points in common. But my arm is too sore to type anymore. I'll try to come back to it. Must be some weird aspect of human nature that gets triggered from time to time.
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The Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt isn't quite as extreme as the Wahabbi's (or Salafists, as they call themselves outside Saudi Arabia).

That none of the ___'s voted for ___ or that they had less than 50% of the vote does not mean it is not an election.

I mean, Abe Lincoln and Bill Clinton and how many other US Presidents were elected with less than 50% popularity? Al Gore won the popular vote and was never President and he has company in that disctinction.

Canada has a long list of PM's who did not get 50% of the vote. In fact out of 41 elections, 36 have ended with the winner NOT getting 50% of the vote. That's right, in our entire history only five times has the governing party won a majority of votes.

SG, you miss my point. All I am saying is that nearly 50% of Egypt voted for a secular candidate.
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I was merely trying to state that widely held belief that all Muslims are raving fanatics is not true.
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I am not suggesting that there was anything wrong with the election.

is freedom necessarily a g_od thing?

Thank you, EO, for clarity.