The Brotherhood, of course, should long ago have tried to keep within the shell of the pseudo-democracy the army permitted in Egypt, because the alternative was bound to be a return to clandestinity, to midnight arrests and torture. This has been the historical role of the Brotherhood – with periods of shameful collaboration with British occupiers and Egyptian military dictators – and a return to the darkness suggests two outcomes: the Brotherhood will be extinguished in violence, or will succeed at some distant date in creating an Islamist autocracy. independent.ie/opinion/analysis/robert-fisk-bloodbath-marks-the-day-when-democracy-drew-its-dying-breath-29500960.html)
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