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Africa North
Egypt: Conspiring Against Ruler Is Conspiring Against God - Salafi
2012-08-22
H/T JihadWatch
Salafi (ultraconservative) leader and member of the constituent assembly, tasked with rewriting the constitution, Saeed Abdel Azeem, said that conspiring against Egypt's ruler (President Mohamed Mursi) is equal to conspiring against God.

Describing Egypt's president as the "ruling imam", Abdel Azeem argued that as Mursi may be unable to apply the law of God fully at this point, the nation must overcome political differences and rally behind him.

He added in his Eid speech on Sunday in Alexandria's Shohadaa Square that Egypt will return to being ruled by Islam and Prophet Mohamed's Sunnah and not democracy, socialism or nationalism.
"I hereby pronounce Bazargan as the Ruler, and since I have appointed him, he must be obeyed. The nation must obey him. This is not an ordinary government. It is a government based on the sharia. Opposing this government means opposing the sharia of Islam ... Revolt against God's government is a revolt against God. Revolt against God is blasphemy."
Ayatollah Khomeini in 1979 link
Posted by:Unamp Clugum9254

#11  Who wouldn't want to blow their life savings to travel into a semi-hostile theocracy to see the world's largest ball of wax?
Posted by: swksvolFF   2012-08-22 21:49  

#10  ...at the Useful Idiots Resort, an all inclusive venue.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2012-08-22 18:33  

#9  ...I think they may be on vacation with the OWS crowd.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2012-08-22 18:31  

#8  Exactly .. what DID happen to those thousands of protesters demanding freedom in this country???
Posted by: Raider   2012-08-22 18:06  

#7  Gosh, the tourists are really going to want to flock to Egypt now, huh? How's that economy going Pres. Mursi? Give em 10 years of living under this crap and see how much they miss Mubarak.
Posted by: remoteman   2012-08-22 12:35  

#6  Ah... how cute. They went back to a theocracy!

Good luck with that guys!
Posted by: DarthVader   2012-08-22 11:15  

#5  Kinetic Military Action FTW!
Posted by: Bright Pebbles   2012-08-22 08:54  

#4  Describing Egypt's president as the "ruling imam",

Are you kidding me? Thanks to Hilldebeast & Barry for that smart diplomacy reset. All that was accomplished is the ME is circling the drain even quicker now.
The state department ought to be strung up.
Posted by: Dikhed Al Fuqwad   2012-08-22 08:40  

#3  He's wearing a chronometer much like Champs and appears to be assisting a sports metaphor with his hands. Could there be other similarities ?
Posted by: Besoeker   2012-08-22 06:47  

#2  How cute! They've invented the divine right of kings. Maybe in another century or two, they'll come up with the Magna Carta.
Posted by: SteveS   2012-08-22 00:46  

#1  Meet the new boss - not the same as the old boss - kind of a shit--d to be truthful.
Posted by: Water Modem   2012-08-22 00:25  

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