Polling lines have been extremely long in Egypt today as that country holds its first parliamentary elections since Mubarak’s three-decade rule came to an abrupt end in February. Describing the event, and still pushing the phony “Arab Spring” narrative, the AP’s tone is rather cheery:

Some voters brought their children along, saying they wanted them to learn how to exercise their rights in a democracy as they cast ballots in what promises to be the fairest and cleanest election in Egypt in living memory.

 
“Fairest and cleanest?!” Not a chance – not considering the Muslim Brotherhood’s involvement ~

 
Many Egyptians truly want democracy for their country. Not a constitutional republic like ours necessarily, but at least a government that guarantees freedom of speech, press, assembly and religion. These voters are mainly what would otherwise be an collection of strange bedfellows: liberals, leftists, Christians(Copts) and pious Muslims who are opposed to Islamism. But they’re united in their preference for a secular Egypt, not a theocracy.
 
Determined to quell the hopes for a democratic government, the Muslim Brotherhood is going on the offensive: Muslim Brotherhood Conducting Illegal Campaigning in Egypt (Egypt Election Irregularities) Egypt Liveblog. As Pundit Press explains, the Brotherhood’s aggressive get-out-vote effort has not been hampered in the least by the fact that campaigning on the actual day of an election is illegal in Egypt;

… reports seem to show the Brotherhood organizing large turnout across the nine districts open for elections. The Brotherhood is the best organized party in Egypt– by far. They had been organized during the Sadat and Mubarak era and unfortunately this will help them at the polls…
…(and an activist reported that) each Muslim Brotherhood member was encouraged to bring 100 people to the polls.

 
Even more distressing for the anti-Islamists, according to the UK Telegraph; yesterday the military leadership and the Muslim Brotherhood joined forces to dismiss pro-democracy protesters as the tools of a foreign conspiracy to weaken the country. This pretty much clinches it for the fundamentalists. As the Telegraph explains;

The vote was supposed to be the most important in the country’s modern history, a moment of destiny in which Egyptians set behind them decades of strongman authoritarianism and embraced a new and unfamiliar era of democracy and tolerance.
 
Instead, they head to the polls in an atmosphere of profound crisis, their country deeply polarised, dangerously unstable and, at least in the view of those in Tahrir Square, on the verge of succumbing to the forces of autocracy and religious extremism.
 
For nine days, the activists behind the overthrow of President Hosni Mubarak in February have tried to recreate the spirit of revolution that emanated from Cairo’s famous landmark so tumultuously at the start of the year.
 
Initially, they seemed to succeed. After more than 40 deaths last week, the protesters forced the military council into promising to expedite the transition to civilian rule. But by Sunday, their ability to exert pressure on the generals appeared to have faded.

 
Which means that any hopes that the Coptic Christians had for relief from religious persecution have faded as well.
 
Michael Youssef, Ph.D – an Egyptian by birth, who immigrated to Australia while he was a university student and became U.S. citizen in 1984 – is uniquely positioned to understand what’s really happening to the minority Christian community in Egypt. And he takes President Obama to task for his role in the human tragedy that’s unfolding (Just one of the latest examples – on October 9th the Egyptian Army killed 27 protestors, 23 of them Christians.);

To describe what is really going on around the country as “barbaric” would be an understatement. While some of the protestors may be true democracy lovers, the widespread terrorism on display defies all human decency.
The truth about recent events in Egypt reveals that the country has disintegrated into a total anarchy and barbarianism that would make the Vikings blush.
 
Peaceful Christians are being beheaded in their own homes. Their possessions are being carried off as police either stand helplessly by or, for a portion of the booty, turn a blind eye. And surprise, surprise! Nearly all the victims of beheadings were Christians killed by Muslim fundamentalists.
 
So much for President Obama’s “Arab Spring.” When history books are written truthfully, they will reveal that the President’s speech in Cairo, one he insisted the Islamists attend, set this barbarism in motion. Another misstep by President Obama was his demand that his ambassador in Cairo negotiate with what, at the time, was an outlawed entity known as the “Muslim Brotherhood.” This gave the Islamist group a huge comfort level in their push to take over.

 
Dr. Youssef continues;

While I cannot enter into the man’s heart or know his motive, I do wonder how Mr. Obama can sleep at night knowing that his misguided foreign policy emboldened pro-Islamists and caused the deaths of thousands of innocent people…
 
…It is precisely the same kind of vacillation and accommodation on the part of Mr. Obama that has emboldened the Islamists around the world. As a result, we have seen jihadist-led bloodbaths from Yemen to Syria and from Libya to Egypt.

 
The only story most Americans will hear from the msm about today’s election will be the AP’s fictional version: “Oh look – Arab Spring leads to democracy-in-action in Egypt!”
The real truth can be found HERE, HERE, HERE and HERE. God help the Copts.