Egyptians can't be trusted with democracy

[Middle-aged Europe]

Why don't we actually see who wins the elections first?

I agree. Those Egyptian poll numbers are pretty similar to those from Pakistan. The last Pakistani elections were won by a secular (socialist) party. Let's refrain from using faulty logic here.

[Middle-aged Europe]

Why don't we actually see who wins the elections first?

I agree. Those Egyptian poll numbers are pretty similar to those from Pakistan. The last Pakistani elections were won by a secular (socialist) party. Let's refrain from using faulty logic here.

The extent to which those policies are not being enacted is the extent to which Pakistan's "democracy" is not in fact democratic; which is of course a good thing in this context.

So you're trying to say that Egypt will likely become *more democratic* than Pakistan in the near future and hence it will turn Islamist?

Well, I neither agree with the first nor the second part of this theory.

[Middle-aged Europe]

Much to deal with in this thread; but that can wait. For now... um... you all do realise that the Mubarak regime promoted (in various different ways) Islam of the sort you all recoil from and was probably responsible for some of the attacks on the Copts?

I tried to point that out in the other thread when I mentioned that Egypt already has sharia law to some extent.