Egyptians decry 'virginity tests' on protesters

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Activists and bloggers are pressing Egypt's military rulers to investigate accusations of serious abuses against protesters, including claims that soldiers subjected female detainees to so-called "virginity tests."

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The purpose of the Police is to catch criminals, the purpose of the military is to defend the state from it's enemies. When you put soldiers into the role of the police the criminals very quickly get dealt with as enemies of the state.

The faster a civilian government is formed the better, for everyone involved. And yes I agree with the assertion made in the article that these "tests" were done purely to degrade and humiliate these women for being women.
 
At least Egyptians are working on a solution to their financial problems

 
I saw that video mentioned on The Freethinker and I'll echo one of the questions that came with it: "Just how is this guy viewed by Egyptians?".

Don't get me wrong, I think the guy is certifiable. But is he viewed by regular people over there somewhat along the lines of Phelps' cult or somewhat more mainstream?
 
Mainstream Muslim Brotherhood
Arab Spring, 679 AD!

First Name: Abu Ishaq
Last Name: al-Huwayni
Country: Egypt
Date of Birth: 1955
Place of Birth: Kafr al-Shaykh Governorate, Egypt
Education:
  • Studied under tutelage of senior Saudi scholar al-Albani
  • Studied Spanish at Faculty of Languages
  • Studied jurisprudence of the Shafii school
  • Started studying hadith when he was eleven
Languages: Arabic
Spanish

A prominent Salafi cleric who stresses the importance of following the example of the first Muslims. al-Huwayni is regarded as one of the 3 most prominent clerics of the Egyptian Salafi
 
metalman said:
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And driving off those few remaining tourists will totally help those figures...[/url][/quote]
 
metalman said:
At least Egyptians are working on a solution to their financial problems
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That's pretty much the plan that the old European powers followed and that the US follows today - go to other countries and take their stuff. Kill anyone who stands in the way.
 
FluffyMcDeath said:
That's pretty much the plan that the old European powers followed and that the US follows today - go to other countries and take their stuff. Kill anyone who stands in the way.
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Muslim pirates were active in the north Atlantic, going as far as Iceland and the British Isles for slaves, throughout the Mediterranean, Italy, France, Spain and Portugal were affected.

From the early sixteenth to nineteenth centuries, thousands of British men women and children were abducted from the British Isles by Moor corsairs and sold into slavery in Morocco. Lord Exmouth, finally ended the white slave trade when he destroyed Algiers in 1816., a descendant of Thomas Pellow, who survived 23 years as a slave in Moracco.

1786 Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, met Sidi Haji Abdul Rahman Adja, the Tripolitan ambassador to Britain in London. As American ambassadors to France and Britain respectively, Jefferson and Adams met with Ambassador Adja to negotiate a peace treaty and protect the United States from the threat of Barbary piracy. They questioned the ambassador as to why his government was so hostile to the new American republic even though America had done nothing to provoke any such animosity. Ambassador Adja answered them, as they reported back to the Continental Congress, “that it was founded on the Laws of their Prophet, that it was written in the Koran, that all nations who have not acknowledged their authority were sinners, that it was their right and duty to make war upon them wherever they could be found, and to make slaves of all they could take as prisoners, and that every Musselman who should be slain in Battle was sure to go to Paradise.”

In 1816 Commodore Stephen Decatur, Jr. reported to the Secretary of the Navy that he had put an end to the Barbary War with a treaty of peace with Algiers that was "dictated at the mouths of our cannons", the only language understood by the Musselman
 
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