This Is What Democracy Looks Like: Egypt’s High Court Invalidates Parliamentary Elections; Military Rulers May Take Over Lawmaking

Egypt’s Islamist-dominated parliament is likely to be suspended after a high court ruling Thursday that one-third of its lawmakers were elected unconstitutionally, officials said. Whose Constitution, I thought Egypt did not have a functioning Constitution?

Local newspapers and Arabic television channels reported that Egypt’s military rulers were going to take over legislative power in the country and planned to announce the dissolution of the lower house of parliament later Thursday.

Washington Post reports:

The court also ruled that Mubarak allyAhmed Shafiq is allowed to run for president in elections that begin on Saturday, invalidating a law that bars members of the ousted dictator’s party from participating in political life.

Incensed revolutionaries called the two decisions the death of Egypt’s revolution, and declared the dissolution of parliament and Shafiq’s participation in the landmark presidential vote the final steps in a military coup.

Protesters clashed with security forces outside the courthouse minutes after the decisions were announced.

So you get it yet? The military wants to make sure their candidate is kept in the race. Who do you think will win? It’s Egypt.

Try this: Egypt decree grants civilian arrest powers to military

Muslim Brotherhood Candidate Wins Run-Off Spot in Egyptian Presidential Election

Want a laugher? Remember this …

Our Ostrich Economics Professor tries to tell America that the Muslim Brotherhood is largely secular group. His surrogates were not convincing, did you go for it? Yes they are Muslims … and yes al Qaeda came from this group. And yes they hate Israel, and yes they hate America.

Here is the CIA Fool telling us …

Now the CIA tries to lie to America. I suppose nothing changes.

The candidate of Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood won a spot in a run-off election, according to partial results Friday from Egypt’s first genuinely competitive presidential election. A former prime minister and a leftist were vying for second place and a chance to run against him to become the country’s next leader.

We trade one terrorist for a brand new America hating terrorist, and call it progress. Probably the best that can be said about them, is they haven’t blown up New York City, YET.

The Muslim Brotherhood is working it’s way into our Muslim President’s Administration at an alarming rate.

The Brotherhood is hoping for a presidential victory to seal its political domination of Egypt, which would be a dramatic turnaround from the decades it was repressed under Mubarak. It already holds nearly half of parliament after victories in elections late last year.

The group has promised a “renaissance” of Egypt, not only reforming Mubarak-era corruption and reviving decrepit infrastructure, but also bringing a greater degree of rule by Islamic law. That prospect has alarmed more moderate Muslims, secular Egyptians and the Christian minority, who all fear restrictions on civil rights and worry that the Brotherhood shows similar domineering tendencies as Mubarak.

“I think we are on the verge of a new era. We trusted God, we trusted in the people, we trusted in our party,” prominent Brotherhood figure Essam el-Erian said at a news conference late Thursday night, just hours after polls closed, when the group first claimed a Morsi victory.

Our head Ostrich doesn’t think it’s a bad thing, how could it be worse?