"With a few shining exceptions, Egypt’s cultural and political - TopicsExpress



          

"With a few shining exceptions, Egypt’s cultural and political elite — which celebrated Morsi’s downfall — has also failed spectacularly. There was their intellectual failure to recognize two parallel truths: That the Muslim Brotherhood was intolerant and authoritarian, but that cheering its liquidation by the police and the army would bring Egypt no closer to freedom and pluralism. There was a moral failure: the unwillingness to acknowledge that fellow citizens, however misguided their beliefs or criminal their behavior, still have rights — foremost the right to live. And there was a political failure: the delusion that Egypt’s deep state — its military, police apparatus and ancien régime — having foisted the Muslim Brotherhood upon the country almost three years ago in a deal to undercut any further revolutionary fervor, would then, after crushing the Islamist organization, do anything but try to restore its own privileges. "
Posted on: Fri, 23 Aug 2013 04:36:39 +0000

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