Protesters in Tahrir Square.
This is a promising state, however, and one that the people of Egypt are lucky to have. Two years after their initial attempt at setting up their first democracy, the Egyptians are starting over again, and they are wiser for it. Now comes the challenge of creating the democracy Egypt missed making the first time around. Because, make no mistake, Morsi might (emphasis on might) have been elected fairly, but it was not under ideal circumstances. Opposition to the blatantly Islamist Morsi and his religious zealots was fierce, but diffuse. Too many newborn political parties fought for power in Egypt’s nascent democratic system, and the better-organized Muslim Brotherhood was able to turn the will of the minority into total political domination.
And while Morsi and the Brotherhood were willing to game the democratic system to get into power, they were never going to allow such a process to take place again. It was plain as day. The Muslim Brotherhood has lied, cheated and stole at every turn. They worked to disenfranchise their opponents and encouraged the killing of their enemies. The Brotherhood tried to kick 13,000 judges out of office at once, so they could pack the judiciary with card-carrying Muslim fundamentalists. Morsi even declared himself above Egypt’s highest courts and happily enshrined Sharia law in the Egyptian constitution, thus making it impossible for everyone to have proper civil rights.
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Good article.