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What Works For Egypt

"When terrorism is trying to take hold of Egypt and foreign interference is trying to dig into our domestic affairs, then it's inevitable for the great Egyptian people to support its armed forces against the foreign danger."
Liberal Esraa Abdel Fattah

This is a "historical revolution and not a coup d'etat. The revolutionaries turned to the army and the army responded... Democracy is about more than elections."
Egyptian feminist Nawal El Saadawi

There, the informed and on-the-spot opinions of secularist Egyptians with much to gain with the removal of an Islamist government. Mr. Fattah labelling the Muslim Brotherhood as terrorists, foreigners. Foreigners perhaps not; the Brotherhood began its life in Egypt 80 years ago, and since then it is true, it has established its presence through branch offices everywhere in the Middle East, North Africa, Europe and North America.

"This is an Egyptian revolution ... It is not a military coup as named by the Brotherhood liars ... 33 million Egyptian protesters are in the streets against the Muslim Brotherhood", claim Egyptian reformers representing human rights and pro-democracy activists, feminists, liberals, leftists, intellectuals who take ferocious exception to the characterizations of brutal intemperance levelled against the Egyptian military by foreign countries abroad.

They are furious at the endless claims of injustice and disproportional violence levelled by Western leaders and media against the military of their country. Which has, in their very affected opinion, rescued Egyptians from rule by the Muslim Brotherhood which had the opportunity to display their intention of equality and moderation, but simply couldn't contain themselves, rushing to claim complete control.

It is the West that is responsible for encouraging the Brotherhood to believe that they must continue to confront the military, they feel. And in so doing, in their ignorance and stupidity, are causing the needless death of Egyptians whom the Brotherhood incites to civil disobedience further aggravating an already tense and threatening atmosphere which must be apprehended before further deterioration takes place and civil war erupts.

These are the countless people who insisted on the removal of their authoritarian tyrant Hosni Mubarak. Whose tyranny was tinged with true patriotism. They have no intention of placidly standing by as he is replaced by a theocratic totalitarianism which is precisely what the Muslim Brotherhood revealed themselves to be. In the process neglecting completely the compellingly necessary affairs of the country further enfeebling its welfare.

Does it never enter the minds of those in authority in the West to wonder why it is that the Muslim Brotherhood has established such a wide-ranging geographic footprint? What conceivable need might there be for the Brotherhood have a firm foothold in Europe, in Asia, in North America? Why ply their religious philosophy as a rigid ideology of conquest other than for universal conquest? Do those authorities have a wish to aid that aspiration?

The West looked on, comfortable in their belief that democratic action had authorized the Muslim Brotherhood to imprison its critics, prosecute journalists for "insulting the president", failed to react protectively when Coptic Christians and their churches were attacked, re-wrote the constitution without consultation to entirely reflect an Islamist agenda, and co-opted Pharaonic powers to the president.

The alternative to the Brotherhood rule is currently rule by the military backing civilian officials. In a part of the world where there has never been a democratically installed and governed administration. Where in an adjoining Muslim country which had ruled under the Ottoman Empire over the entire Islamic ummah, had been led through a military coup to separating religion from government. Under the military rule of Kemal Ataturk, Turkey was guided toward democracy.

Turkey distinguished itself as a bridge between East and West, it introduced equality between the genders, and separated mosque and state. But Islamism crept back decades ago, covertly, then openly, and it finally succeeded in overturning the might of its military in assuring the continuation of that separation that distinguished Turkey from its neighbours. Now the fully Islamist rule in Turkey condemns Egypt's military for opposing Islamism.

And as the bastion and proud example of American democracy in Washington condemns the Egyptian military for dismantling an Islamist government that Egyptians by and large rebelled against, President Barack Obama leads the charge of the sanctimonious, prepared to abandon a Muslim country it had once supported because it refuses to live within a theocracy, opting instead to gradually arrive at a place in history where democracy may be feasible in Egypt.