I see that Middle East can hear us now!!!—Good.
President Hosni Mubarak asked Egypt’s Parliament on Saturday to amend the Constitution to allow for direct, multiparty presidential elections this year for the first time in the nation’s history.
On the face of it, the unexpected proposal from Mr. Mubarak, a former Air Force general who has ruled Egypt unchallenged since 1981, represents a sea change in a country with a 50-year history of one-party governments…
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Verizon, are you sure that things have changed or they will remain the same? Do you know what they do a person who says anything negative about Mubarak in Egypt? You really think that this will change anything of consequence?
P.S. Its great that Middle east can hear us now. Alas, we still cannot hear the middle east/muslims.
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Trust me we will. What made me laugh about Hosni and Egypt was the name of his party, what a joke man. National Democratic Party. Speaks volumes about democracy. We are hearing them Kaleem. Middle east is worse than Jamaica(where you order a beer and the guys shows up 4 hrs later), They are slow but they are getting there. Patience. On a positive note Egypt is the most populace country in Islamic world so it will be good for the Ummah to finally taste democracy (no matter how controlled it is). Saudi Arabia is recently held elections but they are very slow and dumb (sorry ravage, couldn't come up with a better adjective plus I am tired). Invasion of ME.....errr... Iraq has had a dominoes effect in the arab dictatorships/regimes. They will fall and new representative governments will take overwhether they be good to US or not.
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On a positive note Egypt is the most populace country in Islamic world so it will be good for the Ummah to finally taste democracy (no matter how controlled it is). <<
It's indonesia
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^^Hey propellerhead. Here you go amigo.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/02/27/international/middleeast/27egypt.html?
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…Some opposition politicians and other analysts hailed the proposal as heralding a new political era for Egypt, the Arab world’s most populous nation, while skeptics said they wanted to await the details to be sure that the eventual constitutional amendment would not create only the appearance of democracy, a common problem in the region…
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i think you're confusing arab and islamic.
ps abdullah please stop getting personal.
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Ravage you gonna kill yourself trying to clean our posts. I hope you are not mursalin, I once left gupistan in protest after my 16 posts.
And big deal man arabic or islamic its the same siht ok, we have eradicated non muslims from the arab lands minus the land in conflict.