Arab Spring, Round 2

[CountDeMoney]

A military helicopter just flew over the square.  Crowd went bonkers.  Must be carrying Bruce Springsteen.

[Viking]

Apparently the revolution will be televised.

[DGuller]

Apparently the revolution will be televised.

When does it start?

[garbon]

He's offering a coalition gov't?

[Viking]

Apparently the revolution will be televised.

When does it start?

It started 5pm Cairo time earlier on today.

[DGuller]

Damn it, I'm missing it. 

[Tamas]

He's offering a coalition gov't?

The military just about confirmed that they are taking over. To restore democracy of course. Pro-Mursi people claim it is a military coup. Anti-Mursi people claim it was him who couped (they have a point if you remember the whole ordeal with the constitution and such), and no democracy is being restored.

[Liep]

A boring military coup, just a bunch of happy Egyptians waving flags.

[DGuller]

I remember 20 years ago, when I came home from school, and it turned out that I missed most of the run-up to this:



I'm getting a sick feeling in the pit of my stomach that I'm about to miss something like this again. 

[Liep]

I'm getting a sick feeling in the pit of my stomach that I'm about to miss something like this again. 

I doubt you'll feel like you missed much, both because you don't have the same connection to Egypt and because it's just excessive flagweaving atm.

[KRonn]

He's offering a coalition gov't?

The military just about confirmed that they are taking over. To restore democracy of course. Pro-Mursi people claim it is a military coup. Anti-Mursi people claim it was him who couped (they have a point if you remember the whole ordeal with the constitution and such), and no democracy is being restored.

"Interesting" to see where this all may go now.

[The Brain]

I'm getting a sick feeling in the pit of my stomach that I'm about to miss something like this again. 

I doubt you'll feel like you missed much, both because you don't have the same connection to Egypt and because it's just excessive flagweaving atm.

I hate that. I only need the one, thank you very much.

[Siege]

the raping is a big part of it.
Some of the Syria-dickheads that left Belgium to go fight there were caught on tape boasting abuot the 30 or so women they raped and murdered.

Raping is a part of any aspect of warfare, film at 11.   It's just not the principal reason to pick up arms, though;  it's a fringe benefit.

You are looking at this with your western mindset. You take sex for granted, and so see it as just a "perk". For good muslim boys, sex will only come after marriage, ussually around the age of 30, since you have to have an income to maintain your bride before her parents give it to you. So lets number this thing:

1- In muslim societies, marriage occurrs late for males and early for females.
2- There is no sex outaside marriage. You have to be married for sex. There is no hooking up at the club.
3- Most mulims, over 90% from my experience, can only afford one wife, despite islam being a polygamist religion.
4- If you are a muslim, and you don't like your wife, you cannot divorce her. You can accusse her of adultery and kill her, but you would have to prove it if you are outside of Aghanistan and Pakistan. It is kind of hard to prove adultery on a married woman. Young unmarried girls are easy to condemn of adultery because they just look at the virginity thing. If she ain't virgin, she dead. And if she is virgine and the family wants her dead, they can accussed her of dishonoring the family and kill her anyway. Pretty rough.

[Siege]

Also, in dealing with a muslim wife you have to account for the wife's family. In general, it is not easy to get rid of a muslim wife.

Therefore, rape of infidels is not only a perk, and not only for unmarried men, but the driving force behind strife and recruitment.

[Liep]

Military guy announces he takes power: more flags and more fireworks at the Tahrir square. Someone's going to lose an eye or a hand or something, no safety goggles anywhere.