Oh, this bodes well for impartial and transparent governance in the New Egypt. Of course, the Ikhwan has gained popularity by railing against corruption under Mubarak. It is easy to criticize the other guy's corruption and cronyism. But the Brotherhood has already shown its own propensity toward corruption, both in vote buying and other election tampering in two elections (last week's, and the constitutional referendum in March), and now in its refusal to discuss it.
"Egypt Islamists tell rivals to accept vote result," by Tom Pfeiffer and Tamim Elyan for Reuters, December 2:
CAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood called on its rivals to accept the will of the people on Saturday after a first-round vote set its party on course to take the most seats in the country's first freely elected parliament in six decades.
Preliminary results showed the Brotherhood's liberal rivals could be pushed into third place behind ultra-conservative Salafi Islamists, mirroring the trend in other Arab countries where political systems have opened up after popular uprisings.
The Brotherhood is Egypt's best-organised political group and popular among the poor for its long record of charity work. Banned but semi-tolerated under President Hosni Mubarak, who was toppled on February 11 by a street revolt, the Brotherhood now wants a role in shaping the country's future.
Giving new meaning to "What would you do for a Klondike Bar?":
Rivals accused the Brotherhood's Freedom and Justice Party of using handouts of cheap food and medicine to influence voters and of breaking election rules by lobbying outside voting stations.
Not to mention setting up stations to "show people how to vote."
The Brotherhood told critics to back off and respect the result.
No magnanimity in victory here.
"We call upon everyone, and all those who associate themselves with democracy, to respect the will of the people and accept their choice," it said in a statement after the first-round vote, which drew an official turnout of 62 percent.
"Those who weren't successful ... should work hard to serve people to win their support next time," the Brotherhood added.
That all depends on when the next election is, and what the next constitution allows, among other things.
The world is watching the election for pointers to the future in Egypt, the most populous Arab nation and one hitherto seen as a firm U.S. ally committed to preserving its peace treaty with Israel and fighting Islamist militancy.
The Brotherhood's political opponents say it seeks to impose sharia (Islamic law) on a country that also has a large Christian minority.
The movement insists it will pursue a moderate agenda if it wins power and do nothing to damage an economy reliant on millions of Western tourists.
The tourism industry has already tanked.
Well isn't that wonderful. Next time you can figure a better way to cheat so that you will have a better chance of winning. I like the way the Bros work. Food and Medicine, and instruction on how to vote. I wonder if I could get a couple of Rib Eyes and some alzheimer's medicine that I cant' afford right now. Are you Democrat's listening? You could learn a thing or two but you've got to be willing to listen. Republican's: how about getting me my driver's license back and one, no two, boxes of corn flakes in return for my vote? Sounds like a fair election to me!
Apparently the Muslim Brotherhood has been observing ACORN tactics...
Watch out for flocks of Zionist vultures and other weird and wonderful excuses to shift the blame for the collapse of the economy and other misfortunes, too numerous to mention.
Clowns!
This is not surprising since Muslim Brotherhood had as a role model a Nazi war criminal, Amin al Husseyni, Mufti of Jerusalem who spent WWII in Berlin egging Hitler on to hurry up the extermination of Jews and come to exterminate Jews in Palestine.
This evil man, who was a master in lies (leraned from Goering and Goebels) was let go by the British and French to Cairo in 1946 where he resumed his delusional Jew-hating campaign to exterminate Jews. The Mufti of Jerusalem (Amin al Husseyni) was a supreme LIAR, MURDERER OF HIS OPPONENTS and THIEF of his people money, the role emulated by Arafat, bin Ladin and Hetzbollah and Hamas. The stupid politically corrent people and whitewashers of Islam fall for those lies and are cutting the branch of democracy on which they are sitting.
Once those sharia ruled guys come in, they will not leave, just like those "revolutionaries" in Iran, which are still under the evil medieval rules of their islamists.
Arab spring had fast turned into Arab fall and now we will have another winter in the Arab world with lots of violence and flight of remaining non-Muslims.
"We call upon everyone, and all those who associate themselves with democracy, to respect the will of the people and accept their choice"
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My God, *what gall*. The Muslim Brotherhood, as a proponent of Shari'ah, does *not* associate itself with democracy—but it is all too willing to use democracy in the short run to realize its very undemocratic goals.
Rather as Adolf Hitler was...