EGYPT MAKING ROOM FOR MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD….OMINOUS
http://www.robinshepherdonline.com/egypt-to-end-1967-state-of-emergency-allowing-greater-room-for-muslim-brotherhood/#more-2651
Egypt to end 1967 State of Emergency, allowing greater room for Muslim Brotherhood
An interesting story is developing in Egypt where, according to Sky News, the government is planning to end the State of Emergency that was initially imposed after the country’s defeat in the 1967 war. Sky quotes unnamed “sources†as saying the State of Emergency will be repealed in advance of the parliamentary elections this year and the presidential elections next year.
The core issue of interest here is that any such move would allow greater freedoms for Egyptians to engage in political debate and campaigning: a good thing in itself, but something which risks handing the initiative in the country to the Muslim Brotherhood.
That, of course, has been one of the great worries about democratisation in the Arab world generally. We all want it to happen, but given the utterly degraded state of the political culture in that part of the world we are all equally nervous that it might lead to a one-person-one-vote-once scenario in which Islamist rabble rousers seize the initiative on the lines of Algeria in the 90s and Gaza much more recently.
And if Egypt goes down to the Islamists, we really got problems…
I suppose this is one of those watch-this-space issues. No one knows what’s really going to happen. But it is definitely a matter of the utmost importance. So, just keep it on the radar…
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