Morsi, Egypt’s first Islamist president

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Mohammed Morsi, the Muslim Brotherhood-backed candidate, was declared Egypt’s first Islamist president on Sunday with 51.7 percent of last weekend's run-off vote, defeating Ahmed Shafiq, who had been tapped as prime minister by former President Hosni Mubarak. In an address to Egyptians late Sunday night, Morsi reiterated his platform of unifying all Egyptians. Of those who died while protesting more than a year ago, he said, "Their blood will not go in vain." Morsi becomes Egypt’s fifth president, following Mubarak, who was president for nearly 30 years before mass protests across the country forced him to resign in February 2011.

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How will this effect the USA? How will this effect Israel? Will they oppose a secular goverment? Any thoughts or comments about this election?

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Time will tell. He has not been sworn in yet. Obama called him to congratulate him and basically encourage him to be nice to his people. Egypt gets aid from the US and Morsi has implied he will reconsider a peace treaty with Israel if the aid is cut off. Morsi is trying to re-establish ties with Iran, which is probably not a preference of Israel or the US.

[cratehorus]

Time will tell. He has not been sworn in yet. Obama called him to congratulate him and basically encourage him to be nice to his people. Egypt gets aid from the US and Morsi has implied he will reconsider a peace treaty with Israel if the aid is cut off. Morsi is trying to re-establish ties with Iran, which is probably not a preference of Israel or the US.

he will be sworn in, now. I think Obama has to support him no matter what, simply because of what happened with Libya. He'll give Egypt alot of leeway when it comes t human rights, but Morsi is already meeting with Iran and promising to "strengthen" ties with them. The question here is what will happen to Israel. Will the Islamic brotherhood develop a theocratic government?

There is a new country the South Sudan, there is 2 new government's, Libya and Tunisia, There are still massive protests in Bahrain, Algeria, Morrocco, Mali, Nigeria, just to name a few. Will Egypt "lead the way" regardless of what decisions they actually make??