Egypt: Another free and fair election to keep Al Sisi in power

By Dr. Ashraf Ramelah Bio and Archives December 10, 2023

Al Sisi’s first promise to the Egyptian people was his declaration to remain in military uniform and never run for president. He broke his promise then to only become what former President Trump affectionately called, “my favorite dictator". On October 2, President Al Sisi announced his intention to run for his third term. When he first came into office in 2014, he faced one four-year term with a two-term limit. According to the Egyptian constitution, he could hold office for a total of eight years. After Egypt’s nearly sixty-year history with just three Egyptian presidents and only one election (referendum), the 2014 term limits were hopeful in reducing longevity for any president holding office............To Read More.... 

My Take - This is Islam.  When the civilized world spent trillions of dollars and the blood of their young men in Middle East wars and won instituting a one man, one vote system, these nations ended up voting in dictators who made it one man, one vote, one time.  That's Islam, and we really need to be abjectly clear on this one incontrovertible fact.   The thinking and values of Western civilization is totally alien to Islam and the foundational social paradigms Islam creates.  

That's history, and that history is incontestable.  Get over it. 

Ultra-rare anti-Xi demonstration breaks out in Beijing days before Party Congress set to install him as dictator-for-life

October 13, 2022 By Thomas Lifson

Ultra-rare anti-Xi demonstration breaks out in Beijing days before Party Congress set to install him as dictator-for-life

The Chinese Party Congress set to open on Sunday already has Xi Jinping on edge. These gatherings happen only every five years, and this time it is expected to ratify his plan to void term limits and make him in effect dictator-for-life. While it is impossible for outsiders to know the extent of opposition to Xi, almost certainly there are factions that are dead set against this move, based on personal and regional loyalties if not on opposition to his policies and intention to make himself another Mao Zedong.

Thus, a demonstration attacking Xi that broke out in an affluent neighborhood of Beijing must have irritated a man who probably already is on pins and needles. Such demonstrations are extremely rare, especially anything directly attacking Xi. In the Chinese context they are shocking...........

This may have been the work of one brave man, who reportedly (on Twitter) was arrested. But the draconian “zero Covid” policy of Xi has no doubt alienated many Chinese people, who have been subjected to extreme hardship, business and factory lockdowns, and isolation in their homes or evacuation centers. Seeing open defiance in an area of Beijing where many ruling class people live has got to shake up Xi, at last a little.........To Read More.....