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I just ran across this article comparing what is currently occurring in Egypt to what happened in Iran in the late '70's. Especially intriguing with the Muslim Brotherhood's new found interest in entering talks with the Egyptian govt.
Remix is a common enough word in our society today and that's what you are seeing played out in Egypt for the past 11 days with the Egypt protest movement. Look back in time to 1979 when the Muslim Mullah were the Ayatollah Khomeini's instrument of action in Tehran, Iran and flash ahead to 2011 in Egypt's Tahrir Square to the new and improved version: the Muslim Brotherhood. It is like watching a serial crime in action.
Ayatollah Khomeini cut a figure no American living during the difficult period of the late 70's will soon forget, which included Americans being taken hostage later on. No one can ever forget the role he played in the protest movement built upon the same call for democracy we are seeing now in Cairo Egypt.
For the uninitiated, let's reflect on the same rhetoric--almost verbatim, actually--being used to seek the ouster of the Egyptian President Hansoi Mubarak like Khomeini sought to oust the Shah of Iran.
In '79, Time Magazine reported that the Ayatollah Khomeini said, "The people will not rest until the Pahlavi rule has been swept away and all traces of tyranny have disappeared."
In 2011, an Islamic moderate named Mohamed Salim Al-awwa echos the words of his supreme Islamic spiritual leader, "We have spent [decades] dreaming of this number of people coming together to speak out," according to Time Magazine.
Ayatollah Khomeini cut a figure no American living during the difficult period of the late 70's will soon forget, which included Americans being taken hostage later on. No one can ever forget the role he played in the protest movement built upon the same call for democracy we are seeing now in Cairo Egypt.
For the uninitiated, let's reflect on the same rhetoric--almost verbatim, actually--being used to seek the ouster of the Egyptian President Hansoi Mubarak like Khomeini sought to oust the Shah of Iran.
In '79, Time Magazine reported that the Ayatollah Khomeini said, "The people will not rest until the Pahlavi rule has been swept away and all traces of tyranny have disappeared."
In 2011, an Islamic moderate named Mohamed Salim Al-awwa echos the words of his supreme Islamic spiritual leader, "We have spent [decades] dreaming of this number of people coming together to speak out," according to Time Magazine.
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