Friday, July 5, 2013

Egypt revolution 2.0

Not that anyone - here or in the US - cares what I think about the situation in Egypt, but I have been in touch with my many Egyptian friends over the past couple of days.  Each of them is pleased to see Morsi ousted.  In each conversation I tried to play Devil's Advocate and say, "But this is not the way democracies change governments!"  Each person replied basically, "Morsi was going way farther down the Islamist road than he had been elected to do... Egypt is a majority Muslim country but it is NOT a religious country."

Each of them was surprised that Morsi was surprised by the backlash.

Update:  This account from the AP is worth reading

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