What Islamists say a secular Egypt will look like
Ursula LindseyIn the (extremely unlikely, not to say nearly unimaginable) event that Egypt took a strong turn towards militant secularism, Islamists here have put together a video (linked to by the Muslim Brotherhood's twitter feed) showing what the future of the country will look like.
Some highlights:
It all starts when in a new constitution in 2012, Egypt no longer designates Islam as the religion of state and removes the references to Sharia as the main source of its legislation.
- In 2013, the Egyptian parliament outlaws poligamy.
- In 2014, women's rights organizations celebrate a new law that gives women equal inheritance rights.
- In 2015, women are prohibited from wearing the hegab in public buildings.
- In 2017, the first movie theater "specializing in porno films" opens.
Obviously sexual freedom spreads, and tourism declines due to the spread of sexual harassment (Ed. Note: This is particularly ironic for those of us aware of the current rates of sexual harassment).
I don't know what's funnier about this video: the hysterically ominous music; the fact that women's rights groups are represented by a grinning blonde drinking a beer; or the way it ends up describing Bizarro Egypt, where up is down, left is right and Islam doesn't dominate every aspect of public life (politicians get in trouble for opening their speeches with "in the name of God.")
It just goes to show that playing on feelings of fear and indignation (even if you are ascendant and everyone is actually scared of you) is at the basis of most politics. More about the video's predictions after the jump.
- The Ministry of Higher Education decides all students will learn "Islam, Christianity, Judaism and Baha'ism on an equal footing."
- In 2019, there is the first gay marriage in Egypt.
- In 2020, all religious references are removed from official documents and government buildings.
- In 2022, the call to prayer is prohibited.
- In 2024, Egypt and Israel sign a joint defense agreement, and an Egyptian soldiers raises an Israeli flag over Gaza.
- Street fighting breaks out between the religious and secularists.
In the final portion, titles let viewers know that this is what secularists really plan to do, and that all their claims to the contrary ("we're not against religion, just fundamentalism and extremism;" "we just want freedom and equality") are a lie. The video then features images of secularists like feminist Nawal Es-Saadawy, Coptic business tycoon Naguib Sawiris and intellectual and Islamist critic Sayyid El-Qimni.
The video sums up by detailing the disastrous effects of secularism on the West, represented by some charts about church attendance, children born out of wedlock and -- the strongest proof -- a broken egg shell with "marriage" written across it. I can't really argue with the indictment of materialism and celebrity magazines -- and then it all ends with an image of laughing Israeli officials.
Reader Comments (16)
Egypt is full of garbage and will always be .. Freaken beards and borka who obsess about sex and whose prophet fucked a 6 years old. shame shame shame
"Get your paws off me you damn dirty secularist!" (I hope you get the reference).
Just as ridiculous as what secularists say an Islamic Egypt will look like. Egyptians have to talk instead of throwing insults and making emotional responses to rumours.
Remarkable - and remarkably similar to evangelical imagery of what the big bad secular humanists will do to god-fearing American culture
Sounds very much like the Anders Behring Breivik manifesto, which laid out a roadmap describing the impending Islamization of Europe. He even had a video, complete with Very Ominous Music. That calendar ended at 2083 with Wahhabi rule across the continent (unless, of course, Christian and Secular forces had managed to stop it first).
Coming to think of it, maybe Europe's Islam-haters and Egypt's Islamist haters just need to swap places?
Ursula, the music is not hysterical, but rather a very clever choice. It is the music that was used to introduce a very popular (and patriotic) series in Egyptian television in the 1980s. The series, staring Adel Imam when he was very popular, depicts the struggle between Egyptian and Israeli intelligence services before the 1973 war. I haven’t been to Egypt in a very long time, but I’m sure that many Egyptians will recognize the reference.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L9q0I9xQYLo&feature=related
Evocative of Reefer Madness (1936). I'm surprised they didn't drag rock and roll into their video.
Why are the Muslim Brotherhood so anti-women, anyway? Can't think, can't talk, can't vote? I guess that' insecurity for you.
"The series, staring Adel Imam when he was very popular, depicts the struggle between Egyptian and Israeli intelligence services before the 1973 war." AbuZuhair
Hmm...I wonder if that was as fact-filled as the series Horseman without a Horse? Or perhaps the series Rub Mashkal?
What a joke.
Presents a very compelling case for secularism in Egypt.
Seems to be a pretty good read on the big picture situation...
http://www.amnation.com/vfr/archives/020364.html
How do ya'all l live with this crap? Over at "The Angry Arab" he likes to talk about the "lying Israeli media", and I've seen similar references to same here as well.
Will you ever get out of the 7th century?
Following are excerpts from a lecture given by Egyptian cleric Salem Abu Al-Futouh, which aired on Al-Nas TV (via YouTube) on June 5, 2010.
Salem Abu Al-Futouh: Brothers and sisters, in 1114, in England, an extremely grave thing was discovered: The Jews would abduct children, slaughter them, collect the blood in a vessel, and consume it at Passover.
The Jews have two holidays: Passover and another one. What is the Passover, you ask? This holiday is a kind of. . . The Jews celebrate this holiday by eating sandwiches. . . Rather, they eat matzos. What are these matzos made of, you may ask? Concentrate now. They are made of flour and, instead of water, of blood.
A fundamental condition is that the blood be of non-Jews, and especially of Muslims and Arabs.
In 1114, they found that a Jew had abducted a little child, had slaughtered him on Passover day, had taken his blood, had used it to make a sandwich, and had given it to the rabbi to feed the Jews.
In 1250, Edward I discovered that the Zionists had committed a heinous crime. More than 90 of them abducted an English boy, slaughtered him, and made a sandwich with his blood. 18 of them were later executed, and 90 were thrown into an English jail.
This is why Edward I banished the Jews from England. The English banished these people because of the spread of usury, fornication, immorality, iniquity, disobedience, and crimes, including the abduction of children on Passover, their slaughter, and the drinking of their blood.
That’s not all. These people are blood-sucking vampires. When a Jew wants to get married, he must fetch human blood and give it to the rabbi. The rabbi takes this blood and puts an egg in it. He cooks the egg in blood, instead of water. After the egg absorbs the human blood. . . Let me just say that when there is a wedding, they gather at the rabbi’s. The rabbi puts the egg in the man’s mouth, and he takes a bite. Then he puts it in the woman’s mouth, and she also takes a bite. The egg contains human blood. These are blood-sucking vampires, brothers.
Therefore, it turned out that this crime had disappeared from England immediately after the occupation of Palestine. They stopped finding the bodies of children who were abducted and slaughtered, and then thrown outside their homes.
The Jews are known to have two holidays. The first is Purim, celebrated in March, in which there must be blood. The second holiday is the Passover. That’s why they take Palestinian children and never return them. They say that the child died in prison, but in fact, they suck his blood.
FWIW, there has never been an avowed atheist or agnostic nominated by a major party for US president. There has never been a an avowed atheist or agnostic elected U.S. Senator.
Why can't there be a happy medium between religion and state. I mean India managed to do it why not Egypt?
The only thing sillier than this video is that it's gotten any attention at all. There's an idiot in every crowd and in every town, and pretending that this video represents anything other than the view of some idiots out there is basically an insult to all Arabs and / or Muslims. I'm sure I can find tons of idiotic Rapture-Freak 'Christisn' videos out there - to pretend that that would be a representation of 'Christian' thinkers or indeed, of the 'west' would be disingenuous and, honestly, just a waste of time.
Interesting is that the makers of the video decided to use the words "mithli" to describe homosexuals, which is ironic in a way since most religious nuts (especially in the enlightened "WEST") prefer more derogatory terms, which would be "Shawath" in Arabic in this case.
Sounds like a lovely place to live to me!