…
One of the opposition's many valid beefs with the Muslim
Brotherhood was that arrests on jumped-up charges persisted under Morsi, and
were in some ways worse than under the hated, overthrown dictatorship of Hosni
Mubarak. So how is it now OK for the opposition that fought so hard for such
freedoms to be condoning what looks like a witchhunt of Brotherhood members?
It fits in with a wider
pattern of dangerous inconsistency. Most obviously, the fact of inviting the
army in to enforce this transitional period to begin with. To be clear,
president Morsi was a disaster – power-grabbing and divisive, his majoritarian
take forced the opposition out of any formal political process and left them
with no choice but to play him at his own majority game, on the streets. The
opposition's resolve is both formidable and admirable: refusing to let go of
those guiding principles of bread, freedom and dignity no matter what the
military council and president Morsi have thrown at them over the past two
years. That's an enviable level of political engagement, as viewed from jaded,
apathetic Britain.
But the manner of
Morsi's removal is nonetheless a tactical error. That's not just because it
gives the Brotherhood – already insular and defensive after years of
persecution – a justified grudge to bear about being forcibly ejected from
politics. It also comes across as an unprincipled flouting of the rules – the
sort of flouting, in fact, that the Brotherhood became so hated for.
And, with Egypt being such a weather vane
and influence in the Arab world the consequences of what just happened are
far-reaching. Morsi's foreign policy adviser Essam al-Haddad (now detained) had
a point when he warned: "The message will resonate throughout the Muslim
world loud and clear: democracy is not for Muslims."…
Those voices are critical now more than
ever – and they need to be heeded. Like it or not, the Muslim Brotherhood is a
sizeable part of the political landscape and has to be a part of Egypt's
political future.
Ofcourse democracy is for all of us, it is not reserve for excursively for someone, if something is good we can copy it, make it for us..., what they have done so far incredible, why can't they do it again...? Turkey, Indonesia and Malaysia...are all democracy majority of population is Muslim... there is no such things as perfect perfect...!
