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Reader comment on item: Why Egypt Will Not Soon Become Democratic
Submitted by seadog4227 (India), Feb 4, 2011 at 22:09
That's right: Mubarak will not go quietly into the sunset; Egypt never had a civil society and other forces are far stronger than garden variety democrats. But a revolution has got to start somewhere, right? It doesn't appear so here, because the will and the anger has petered out.
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| Islamic countries should stop calling themselves Islamic [519 words] | Prashant | Jan 20, 2017 00:40 | 235590 | ||
 Mincor correction in my message above [128 words] | Prashant | Jan 21, 2017 01:07 | 235590 | ||
| 1 | Egypt is the canary in the gold mine [124 words] | Stas | Jan 20, 2013 04:37 | 202681 | |
| Secular anything is better than a theocracy [185 words] | Prashant | Jan 22, 2017 15:05 | 202681 | ||
| 1 | Good points [134 words] | Peter Herz | Feb 11, 2011 19:38 | 182555 | |
| 1 | hmmm, i think ive seen that sword logo before [31 words] | gem | Feb 11, 2011 19:02 | 182551 | |
| 1 | Islam and the Future of Planet Earth [14 words] | Morgan | Feb 11, 2011 15:58 | 182546 | |
| 4 | About Democracy in Egypt [739 words] | Rafi Laufert | Feb 11, 2011 07:25 | 182539 | |
| Why Egyot will not soon become democratic [174 words] | sufi imdad ali soomro | Feb 10, 2011 23:37 | 182523 | ||
| Treaty [39 words] | Barry Black | Feb 6, 2011 16:35 | 182370 | ||
| Ptolomeu and Egyptians [80 words] | Breno Lima | Feb 6, 2011 14:13 | 182368 | ||
| 1 | Egypt's status: More of the same or just about [309 words] | JACQUES HADIDA | Feb 6, 2011 13:41 | 182365 | |
| 5 | The Muslim brotherhood flag/logo revisited [122 words] | dhimmi no more | Feb 6, 2011 09:26 | 182360 | |
| 3 | Illusion and desillusion [123 words] | Gabriel Ange | Feb 6, 2011 06:55 | 182357 | |
| 1 | Illusion and disillusion [291 words] | Gabriel Ange | Feb 7, 2011 05:23 | 182357 | |
| 2 | Democracy in Egypt? No chance [78 words] | dhimmi no more | Feb 6, 2011 06:26 | 182355 | |
| "Commonality of Values" [43 words] | Aminu Adamu Bello | Feb 6, 2011 03:52 | 182353 | ||
| 1 | prospects of democracy in egypt [162 words] | prakash khatiwala | Feb 6, 2011 02:23 | 182352 | |
| 1 | No chance for democracy [17 words] | Sylvia S. | Feb 5, 2011 16:22 | 182334 | |
| 1 | Look at History [167 words] | Africon | Feb 5, 2011 15:19 | 182333 | |
| Egypt [12 words] | Jon Puriznahsky | Feb 5, 2011 13:58 | 182326 | ||
| 4 | no democracy without religious freedom [103 words] | alan glaser | Feb 5, 2011 13:31 | 182322 | |
| Democracy in Iraq and Afghanistan, but not Egypt? [29 words] | Skeptic | Feb 5, 2011 12:14 | 182319 | ||
| A sense of right and justice [95 words] | Paula Clare Yates | Feb 5, 2011 07:18 | 182311 | ||
| 1 | Election troubles? What troubles? [76 words] | Ugri | Feb 5, 2011 03:43 | 182306 | |
| Muslim Paranoia - Why Egypts will not advance to democracy anytime soon [113 words] | David MacKAY | Feb 5, 2011 02:01 | 182305 | ||
| Pipes makes sense - where in history have we seen anything different - even the American revolution wasn't a rush job. [106 words] | Dallas | Feb 5, 2011 01:45 | 182304 | ||
| 1 | Requirements for democracy in Egypt [74 words] | yonatan silverman | Feb 5, 2011 00:00 | 182302 | |
 Hosni Mubarak [49 words] | seadog4227 | Feb 4, 2011 22:09 | 182295 | ||
| Fear Not [86 words] | Barry Black | Feb 4, 2011 20:37 | 182291 | ||
| 2 | Mr Pipes is hopefully wrong [256 words] | Devils advocate | Feb 4, 2011 18:23 | 182284 | |
| To Devils advocate [107 words] | John in Michigan, USA | Feb 4, 2011 22:41 | 182284 | ||
| 4 | Democracy starts in the womb. [178 words] | batya dagan | Feb 4, 2011 17:54 | 182283 | |
| Democracy and Theocracy [24 words] | M. Moussa | Feb 9, 2011 07:41 | 182283 | ||
| Hello Moussa [85 words] | batya dagan | Feb 10, 2011 22:06 | 182283 | ||
| 4 | free egypt [243 words] | havas | Feb 4, 2011 17:29 | 182280 | |
| 1 | Democracy In Egypt [22 words] | Clifford Ishii | Feb 4, 2011 20:00 | 182280 | |
| Egypt not soon Democratic [9 words] | Victoria Conroy | Feb 4, 2011 17:04 | 182279 | ||
| Interpreting a poll of Egyptians [338 words] | John in Michigan, USA | Feb 4, 2011 15:12 | 182277 | ||
| The Ikhwan May Well Come to Power [71 words] | James | Feb 4, 2011 15:03 | 182276 | ||
| 2 | Democracy in Egypt [32 words] | Ace | Feb 4, 2011 13:01 | 182271 | |
| on target [53 words] | Howard Brown | Feb 4, 2011 12:33 | 182270 | ||
| And if there is a vote, hopefully not :One person, one vote, one time." [115 words] | Edmund Onward James | Feb 4, 2011 11:25 | 182267 |
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