In Egypt, Christians, Muslims find common ground - USATODAY.com
This should be interesting to watch play out. Personally, I hope it turns out to a secular kind of republic, a la Turkey. I don't see any need to persecute people because of their religious beliefs. It's an unnecessary effort, and counterproductive in a lot of cases. Not to mention the Christian and Islamic worlds are not necessarily on best of terms right now, if one were to shut out the other, it could be catastrophic.
I just hope this isn't like the Iran situation of a few years ago where the elections were disputed by the Western Media, when in fact they were only really talking to people in Tehran and its suburbs. Well yeah, if you only go where the opposition is, and the two parties are that opposite of each other (when really, they weren't, but damnit did they like to believe so, sounds familiar) then you are going to hear only words of bloody revolution.
Would it be responsible to go to a tea-party rally and ask about Obama's direction for our country? No, that would be foolish and one dimensional.
I wonder what the Egyptian countryside thinks about this -- not Mubarak, the religion issue. I don't think anyone liked Mubarak.
By the way, whatever happenned to the Zoroastrians/Mazdaists in Iran? Did they all run to America?
-- Knuttel
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