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The church has suffered under the muslim brotherhood-led egypt. and the arab spring has turn bod a nightmare for christians. being a christian in egypt is not good and thats true in the gaza and the west bank. the christian community, especially with heavy muslim brotherhood leadership, its death for people. churches are being bushed and destroyed. people are being killed. this is a very serious situation. we keep a very close eye on the situation in egypt. i have a lot of friends that are drift...

Others who are still in prison -- look, this came from the ayatollah. this isnt western judicial system. this came from the ayatollah. and the ayatollah made a decision -- and i am sure aupolitical one -- that this man would be released. i have no doubt he will continue his ministry. thats between him and his congregation and the lord. thats going to be the end result here. what happens in the future, time will tell. what well hope and what we will continue to do is to monitor the situation, con...

in a presidential election run thauf weekend. we should tell you that riot police, military personnel have taken up positions outside the court. ben wedeman joins us in just a few moments with the latest on this. as soon as we get ben wedeman, well bring it to you. back to the u.s. you know the old saying, when it rains it pours. for the obama campaign it appears to be a gully washer. lately the president has had some bad poll number, some bad headlines, some democrats are expressing...

You have the americans on trial. the united states government is asking for these people to be released, demanding they be released. the military government inside egypt is having to parlay and play to a very hard-core nationalistic group that has risen to power since the revolution there a year ago. going forward the trial delayed until april. theres a chance they are going to try to change in law a little there to allow everybody to save face or possibly the united states could pull out the bi...

Military rule had promised and the military did not take kindly to that. the u.s. secretary of state is weighing n. telling the egyptian military to stop this kind of violence, though overnight it didnt seem to make a whole lot of difference. there were massive fires set all throughout cairo. in fact this is now day four of the clashes. we tend to have this four days on, four weeks off, when the violence comes into cairo. i can tell you from having been in downtown cairo, the things there are ve...

Brain of the people. >> reporter: he hopes a group with protesters who carried pictures of usama bin laden and demanded egypt become an islamic state. does that mean youd like to see sharia law in egypt? >> >> yeah, yes. im against any other system. i am an enemy of democracy. >> reporter: it was a fallacy cleric who inspired the attack on israel eat embassy and the rise of radical islam in egypt has gone unchecked by the army. >> if women go out unveiled, they will be kidnapped, and that scared...

Was it 969 bc, 96 bc, 96 ad, or 969 ad? keep watching to find out the correct answer. go to our website cnn.com/robin/gps for more questions and answers. check out our blog, global public square. this week we have great reads on egypt, arab spring and more. my book of the week published three years ago, but in a strikingly way, foretold the january revolution called inside egypt, the land of the farrows on the brink of a revolution, written by john r. bradley, who also wrote a book about saudi a...

and finally, the two top presidential candidates in egypt, two former office mates now rivals. let me first give you some of my own thoughts, having spent some time in cairo and actually listened to president obamas speech from here in tahrir square. the presidents speech was remarkably comprehensive. it described the events that we now call the arab spring, explain their causes and consequences. he placed the united states squarely behind the democratic wave everywhere. though he di...

Transitions. there isnt a natural seed bed in which it will be easy to quickly fertilize and grow democracy. >> if you were to put on your old political consultant hat and tell the egyptian democrats what they should do, would they face an army that wants to retain power, anxiety about the muslim brotherhood? how do they make their way? >> i certainly think they need to understand they have as big a problem outside egypt as inside egypt and they have to show everybody that a democratic pluralist...

Cases than less, the opposition has been locked up whenever its made any kind of descent. so these are going to be very, very difficult transitions because there isnt a natural seed bed in which it will be easy to quickly fertilize and grow democracy. >> if you were to put on your old political consultant hat and tell the egyptian democrats what they should do, if they face an army that clearly wants to retain power, they face anxieties about the muslim brotherhood, how do they make their way? >...