Reply #113

what your having trouble admitting is that you accept a right wing, theocratic government, knowing full well, that such a govt tosses any kind of western civil rights "out the door" simply because of your preference for the "proper genetics."

we also know from the past events of the "arab spring" that such gov'ts apparently do not lead to a western civil rights oriented democracy....

its nothing more than clarification of the events and your beliefs and what is MOST important and what is LESS important.
We all have hierarchies.

For instance, i prefer assad as ruthless dictator of syria... why? not because i don't care for human rights, but because as far a syrian is concerned, i prefer the quiet border that assad has maintained and don't want the risk of it becoming like Lebanon, hence the trade off.

You in terms of gaza has made the same trade off: preference for a nationalistic anti civil rights govt as opposed to other alternatives....of which you have trouble imagining.


btw..this is clearly false:

And the only way to avoid those countries going ultra-religious is to make sure that secularism is not equated with being subordinate to "The West".

did you really just write that statement? are u really that blind by your own theology? Look around, Egypt is already applying shari law, and it has nothing to do with the west, like gaza it has to do with shrewd political maneuvering of the MB....politics
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