It's that simple. If a country like Egypt does not grant true freedom to worship how their citizens like, when they like, and where they like, it is not true religious freedom. I think the west can see through the Muslim Brotherhood's plan to make this country into a nation of Islam-only religion. There are Christians, Hindus, and others of many faiths living in Egypt. They must feel threatened right now.
In a landmark address recently to the Chapman University School of Law, Elder Dallin H. Oaks of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints affirmed the importance of the free exercise of religion and called for people to work together to protect this First Amendment right. “It is imperative that those of us who believe in God and in the reality of right and wrong unite more effectively to protect our religious freedom to preach and practice our faith in God,” he said.
Elder Oaks stated that religious values and political realities are “so interlinked in the origin and perpetuation of this nation that we cannot lose the influence of religion in our public life without seriously jeopardizing our freedoms.”
Scholars consider Religious Freedom the cornerstone of all freedoms. Without it, essentially you have no freedom that is secure from tyrants.
That's exactly where Egypt stands today. It is quite apparent that the Muslims will take over leadership in Egypt. It doesn't have to be that way, but the Muslim Brotherhood and the international Muslim movement or Caliphate (one-world domination) is manipulating the Egyptian riots. Eventually the good people of Egypt are going to see them as their only way out, as unfortunate as that will become..
Below is an article about the disparate feelings Egyptians have about religion and freedom
in that country. Most of them believe in religious freedom, but most of them also believe it
is okay to kill anyone who leaves the Muslim religion. That's one of the chief tenants of
Islam, of Sharia Law. I say that is not freedom of religion. What thinking person would
invite the Mormon missionaries into his house knowing that if he prayed to God and found
the truth he would be killed if he acted on that inspiration from God to leave the Muslims
and join this new religion?
No, freedom of religion leaves you free to become a member of any faith, any sect,
any religion, any church; to do as the Articles of Faith of the Church of Jesus Christ
of Latter-day Saint's (Mormon) says: "13) We claim the privilege of worshiping Almighty
God according to the dictates of our own conscience, and allow all men the same privilege,
let them worship how, where, and what they may."
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Here's the Byron York Article that appeared in Townhall and The American Spectator
Townhall Columnists Byron York
Last year, the Pew Research Center
Global Attitudes Project conducted
a survey of opinion in several Muslim
countries. The subject was the proper role
of Islam in politics and society. One of
the countries surveyed was Egypt, and
among other discoveries, the Pew
researchers found that 84 percent of
Egyptians favor the death penalty
for people who leave the Muslim
religion.In another survey, Pew found
that 90 percent of Egyptians say they
believe in freedom of religion.
Global Attitudes Project conducted
a survey of opinion in several Muslim
countries. The subject was the proper role
of Islam in politics and society. One of
the countries surveyed was Egypt, and
among other discoveries, the Pew
researchers found that 84 percent of
Egyptians favor the death penalty
for people who leave the Muslim
religion.In another survey, Pew found
that 90 percent of Egyptians say they
believe in freedom of religion.
Pew also found that a majority of Egyptians
think democracy, with protections of free
speech and assembly, is "preferable to
any other kind of government."
think democracy, with protections of free
speech and assembly, is "preferable to
any other kind of government."
How can those attitudes fit together in
a democratic
a democratic
post-Mubarak Egypt? It's no wonder
so many people can't figure out what
is next.The Pew survey found wide
streams of opinion in Egypt that seem
at the very least inhospitable to democracy.
When asked which side they would take
in a struggle between "groups who want
to modernize the country (and) Islamic fundamentalists," 59 percent of Egyptians
picked the fundamentalists, while 27 percent picked the modernizers. In a country in
which the army will likely play a deciding role in selecting the next political leadership,
just 32 percent believe in civilian control of the military. And a majority, 54 percent,
supports making segregation of men and women in the workplace the law throughout Egypt.
so many people can't figure out what
is next.The Pew survey found wide
streams of opinion in Egypt that seem
at the very least inhospitable to democracy.
When asked which side they would take
in a struggle between "groups who want
to modernize the country (and) Islamic fundamentalists," 59 percent of Egyptians
picked the fundamentalists, while 27 percent picked the modernizers. In a country in
which the army will likely play a deciding role in selecting the next political leadership,
just 32 percent believe in civilian control of the military. And a majority, 54 percent,
supports making segregation of men and women in the workplace the law throughout Egypt.
There's more. When asked whether suicide bombing can ever be justified, 54 percent
said yes (although most believe such occasions are "rare"). Eighty-two percent supported
stoning for those who commit adultery.
And yet at the same time, says Richard Wike, associate director of Pew's Global Attitudes
Project, "we found support for some specific features of democracy -- free media, civil
liberties, an independent judiciary." Indeed, 80 percent of Egyptians place a high value
on free speech, 88 percent on an impartial judiciary and 75 percent on "media free from
government censorship." What accounts for the coexistence of attitudes that to the American
mind cannot coexist? "I'm not entirely certain what explains it," Wike says.
Byron York
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