This is just one side of the “so called” moderately enlightened secularists and preachers of democracy, this is what they are, this is what they do. This is what happened in Algeria 91, Jordan and ultimately going to happen in Pakistan. It’s the Mother of all democratic fears, what if elections are held in Saudi Arabia and the “fundamentalists” win, what if the Hamas wins in Gaza, what if the “Islamist “ wins in any country. This is where the cry for democracy goes into the drain and your ultimate real face shows up. Welcome to another episode of secular extremism.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/21/international/africa/21egypt.html
…Attackers wielding machetes, knives and axes created mayhem at scattered polling places around Egypt on Sunday, killing one man and wounding dozens of others. The violence was seen as a government effort to create chaos to prevent the Muslim Brotherhood from making further gains in the second round of three-stage parliamentary elections.
Voters at some polling places praised the government for its organization, with independent judges supervising transparent ballot boxes. But the violence erupted around polling places that were considered strongholds for the Muslim Brotherhood, particularly in poorer neighborhoods in this Mediterranean city. The Muslim Brotherhood had done surprisingly well in the first round of elections…