No matter who or where they are. More Zionist tripe!
"Jordan election results reflect Islamic political parties' slide; Pressure from US for free elections eased, analysts say" by Ellen Knickmeyer/Washington Post November 28, 2007
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates - Voters rebuked Islamic politicians in parliamentary elections in Jordan last week, following poor showings by Islamic-oriented political blocs in Egypt and Morocco over the past six months.
Islamic political movements are holding their ground in some other parts of the Middle East, but official manipulation of elections in Jordan and elsewhere is driving down voter turnout and curbing support for Islamic political blocs and political opposition groups overall, according to analysts, politicians, and voters. In some cases, the Islamic groups have been hurt by internal dissension and political miscalculations.
Oh, so the RIGGED ELECTIONS froze out "democracy," huh?
Whadda surprize!
Arab governments have felt freer to restrict the Islamic political movements since the Bush administration eased off pressure for free elections in the Arab world. The US shift was made as Islamic movements made strong showings in Egypt, Lebanon, Iraq, and the Palestinian territories in 2005 and 2006.
That was all bullshit anyway!
The fourth excuse that asshole trotted out for invading Iraq, after the WMD, terrorist ties, and removing a brutal dicatator didn't sell anymore!
That democracy talk was ALL BUSH BULLSHIT!!!!!!!!!!!
And why is asshole stripping us of democracy here if he loves it so much?
Quit covering up for him, shit papers!
"Arab governments feel they have more leeway to do what they want to do," said Michele Dunne, a specialist in Arab affairs at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, a US-based organization.
In part owing to US preoccupation with troubles in Iraq and elsewhere, Arab governments perceive that "no one from outside is going to pay this much attention," Dunne said.
Especially when you rely on a shit Zionist media like shit-chewing Amurkns do!
Some leading US presidential candidates say the next administration should continue viewing democracy efforts in the Middle East with caution.
Any US project to promote democratization in the Arab world should come only in "digestible steps," Senator Hillary Clinton, Democrat of New York, said recently.
Well, we know what she is! A Globalist War Promoter and servant of Israel!
Republican presidential candidate and former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani has stressed security over elections, saying, "Democracy can't flourish unless people are safe."
Well, if that ain't ever Rudy and his fascist proclivities talking!
Hey, Rudy, you need to speak to Rummy because democracies are messy!
People are free to do things and commit crimes.
If safety means democracy, then Saddam Hussein was one of the most democratic tyrants ever, huh?
Egypt has been the most aggressive in blocking the Islamic movements, after members of the Muslim Brotherhood running as independents won roughly one-fifth of the seats in the parliament's lower house in 2005.
During parliamentary elections this summer, riot police sealed off polling places in some areas of support for the Muslim Brotherhood.
In a referendum championed by the government, Egyptian voters this spring approved constitutional amendments that barred religious-oriented candidacies and retained provisions making it impossible for any current, significant opposition bloc to contest the presidency.
"There is a temporary success in cracking down on Islamic movements in the region," said Mohammed Habib, the first deputy chairman of Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood. "But in the long run, the Islamic movement is gaining popular support . . . and I believe the oppressive regimes will fail in their crackdown in the long run."
Yup, and I will applaud as each one goes down!
For the Arabs and the Muslims will have liberated themselves from the yoke of western tyranny and its lackeys!
Jordan's Islamic Action Front last week suffered one of its worst election defeats since Jordan's monarchy restored parliament in 1989. The Islamic party won only six of the 22 parliamentary seats it had contested.
Tribal candidates and parties allied to Jordan's King Abdullah II won the majority of the 110 seats. Jordan's electoral system gives disproportionate strength to rural areas, where support for Islamic and secular opposition parties is weakest.
The Islamic party alleged vote fraud, which the government denied.
Well, there is another lying government for you (just like all of them)!!
Of course the Islamists had a bad election.
That was the point of rigging the vote!
"How do you want people to participate in public life . . . when you do all kinds of violations? Many will feel hopeless, feel this is a joke talking about democracy and elections," said Sabri Samirah, a spokesman for the Islamic Action Front.
Yeah, I know how you feel, sir! As an American, I know how you feel!
He spoke late last week, after bitter supporters of the party trudged out in the rainstorms that followed election day to tear down the movement's soggy banners bearing the Brotherhood slogan "Islam is the solution."
Islamic parties in some countries have lost appeal among voters who see them as too hard-line religiously or as flawed politically compared with other office seekers.
Or they got screwed out of elections, right?
Reader, does the Zionist bullshit-shoveling ever stop?
Um Muhanned al-Atoum, a 44-year-old voter in Jordan's capital, long had backed the Islamic party, she said. She changed allegiance in last week's elections, disgusted that two Brotherhood lawmakers had attended the 2006 funeral of Abu Musab Al-Zarqawi, the Jordanian-born leader of the Sunni insurgent group Al Qaeda in Iraq.
"It hurt me when I heard that," Atoum said.
Sigh! That does it!
When they bring up the mythical CIA creation Zarqawi, I've had it!
Al-Zarqawi Video Is A Pentagon Propaganda Psy-Op
"The Post even described how the Pentagon had concocted fake Al-Zarqawi letters boasting about suicide attacks and leaked them to Dexter Filkins of the New York Times, who splashed it on the front page the next day. Despite the fact that Filkins had severe doubts about the authenticity of the letter, the Times got down on their knees, licked boots, and published it anyway.
And the military leadership has the nerve to claims its propaganda doesn't target US citizens."
I am so tired of Zionist bullshit being peddled as "news!"
Islamic political leaders, as well as some analysts in the West, warn that Islamic-oriented voters may see violence as the only means of change if Arab governments block representative democracy.
And then they pile on a whole lot more self-serving Zionist propaganda!
Over my head now!
"The government is sending the signal that we do not accept Islamists" whether "moderates or extremists," Samirah said. Turnouts have fallen in countries where authoritarian governments have been reluctant to let elections effect change."
What would it matter if turnout rose?
The governments would just rig the elections!
And if AmeriKa's elections jip Ron Paul this coming year, I'm going to boycott voting!
Let them try to govern with a 10% turnout and call themselves legitimate!
They would probably just lie about that, too!
