# Has the Arab Spring in Egypt turned into an Islamist nightmare?

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**Created:** [June 27, 2012, 3:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-the-arab-spring-in-egypt-turned-into-an-islamist-nightmare/626419 "2012-06-27T03:14:14Z")\
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**Author:** ![Ibn\_Warraq](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/e19b73/32.png) [@Ibn\_Warraq](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ibn_Warraq)\
**Post date:** [June 27, 2012, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-the-arab-spring-in-egypt-turned-into-an-islamist-nightmare/626419/53 "2012-06-27T19:51:41Z")

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> [@Valteron](#):
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> Be that as it may (and I doubt the objectivity of this article) if you want to start a thread to take shots at Israel, I suggest you do so. The subject of this thread is “Has the Arab Spring in Egypt turned into an Islamist nightmare?”

This comment is moronic.

You were the one who decided bring up Israel in the OP by stupidly declaring them “the only democracy in the Middle East” and revealing your ignorance about the region.

Had you not mentioned Israel in your post and made such an ignorant statement about Israel, I wouldn’t have brought up Israel’s treatment of it’s Christian Arab minority.  
BTW, I nearly pissed myself laughing at your comment about Chrustian Arabs going to Chile to be grape pickers. No, they’re mostly educated middle class folk that leave because Israel openly discriminates against them and doesn’t like the idea of Arabs, whether Christian or Muslim, being more than menial laborers.

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