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Egypt Updates: Mubarak Names VP, Makes Things Worse

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Charles Johnson1/29/2011 10:49:30 am PST

re: #9 Killgore Trout

I’ll never understand why this kind of rhetoric appeals to some leftists. By any objective measure, political Islam is diametrically opposed to what we think of as “Western” liberalism. No freedom of speech, no freedom of religion, brutal repression of women, the list goes on and on. This has always been the ideological reason why I worked to oppose militant Islam.

It’s insane (or at least, incredibly naive) to say we shouldn’t be worried about an Islamic theocracy in Egypt. Theocracy is a bad thing, period.