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Islamist Insha'Allah: Egypt democracy to be Quran-based?

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Egypt's President-elect Mohammed Mursi is set to begin forming a new government, after being announced on Sunday as the country's next leader. Huge celebrations greeted the delayed results, which showed he beat Mubarak's last Prime Minister, Ahmed Shafiq, by around four per cent. Mursi has pledged to bring unity, and resigned from the Muslim Brotherhood to become a non-partisan leader. But the authority of the office he assumes is determined by the ruling military, which holds law-making powers after the generals dissolved Parliament. While they've promised to hand executive control to Mursi by July, it's not clear how much leverage he'll be given. The US has been quick to congratulate the winner, but as RT's Marina Portnaya reports, the Muslim Brotherhood's ties to extremists, means America is undermining its own policies. Subscribe to RT! http://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=RussiaToday Watch RT LIVE on our website http://rt.com/on-air Like us on Facebook http://www.facebook.com/RTnews Follow us on Twitter http://twitter.com/RT_com Follow us on Google+ http://plus.google.com/b/102728491539958529040 RT (Russia Today) is a global news network broadcasting from Moscow and Washington studios. RT is the first news channel to break the 500 million YouTube views benchmark.