Egypt’s ousted president Mohamed Morsi dies in court while facing trial, state television reportshttps://wapo.st/2MVRCDs?tid=ss_tw&utm_term=.4a8593a59837 …
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RIP Mohamed Morsi. He and his #Ikhwan colleagues made a poor job of governing, were v. naive in their failure to foresee/forestall the military's super-vicious, anti-democratic counter-attack. But he was democratically elected! Small thread...
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In Spring 2011 I was one of very few Western analysts who predicted that if there were democratic elections, likely the
#Ikhwan (MB) would win. I was right. This was not because I supported their program but becuz I understood & admired their organizing capability. >Show this thread -
At the very beginning of the "Tahrir Square" phenomenon, some of the older MBs were wary of getting involved. They knew it wd be a big roll of the dice. But the younger members persuaded them to join the big sit-ins thruout all of Egypt. >
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They played a massive role in organizing logistics for the prolonged sit-ins. They and all their allies in the street movement rigorously kept to nonviolence, despite army/police provocations that killed >800 and injured 1000's more before Mubarak left. Few people remember >
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that nonviolent discipline that they helped to keep. Then, after being elected, they (inc Morsi) proved fairly incompetent at governance. But there were parliamentary elections scheduled for later in 2013. Ppl unhappy with Morsi's governance had a chance to change things thru >
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electoral means. But no. By mid-2012, Egyptians disaffected by the MB's rise were plotting with MBZ, the deeply anti-democratic strongman of the UAE. They created an entire, faux "grassroots" movement (astrotroturf movemt) called Tamarrod which, >
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using a massively well-funded & mendacious social media campaign, roiled up numerous Egyptian "liberals" on an anti-MB platform and then in mid-2013 organized a mass street protest in Cairo with the demand to bring the military back to power!
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#Sudan today is deja vu all over again. (UAE funding to restore a military to power over the expressed wishes of the people.) God help the peoples of both countries.Show this thread End of conversation
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It was too early to judge his performance. A country which was so corrupt and had no civil society because of decades of military dictatorship, what chance did the MB have of being successful quickly?
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Indeed. Add to that the powerful forces the MB had to resist. For example: the electrical grid was tempered with to frustrate the Egyptian people with MB. Much more was done to destroy economic opportunities for the people, so the outcome was "rather a dictator with food on the..
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The ikhwanis were always a political group mistaken for a Sunni religious sect. It’s unfortunate what’s happened. Allah ya rahmo
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Democracies take time to come about. I think people have legitimate grievances but often it translates into wanting change to something utopian in no time, that won’t happen.
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With due respect I feel the Muslim Brotherhood are a trojan horse and fountain of terrorism
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Trojan horse for what? Terrorism in a country in which they have been bestowed legitimate power democratically? The MB has many facets...
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This thread doesn’t even follow within itself. 2011 elec was won on a 53% (33m) turnout: MB won by default against Ahmed Shafik who was hated for his close ties to Mubarak, and Morsi wasn’t MB candidate until the very last minute, appearing on zero literature or in the campaign.
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The MB were not comedically incompetent; they tried to sell the country, corruption was rife and they tried to enforce their “piety” on the streets.
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30m on the streets is no lie (more than voted MB in 2011) Tamarrod not “well-funded” but well educated, and the attacks on Christians that the MB instigated to divide the country were neither funny nor successful. Egyptians didn’t want to wait, are not shy, and they like Sisi.
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Many Egyptians liked the military before the Arab spring as well. Seems odd to choose authoritarian government doesnt it. The Sisi regime is worse than Mubarak was.
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