Interesting. It would be good for all concerned, including the U.S. and Western Civilization, if this holds.
The situation in Egypt was somewhat similar to that in Turkey. Kemel Attaturk secularized the state and drove Islam into the private sphere. Whenever the Islamists got too cocky, or tried to take over the government, the Generals would step in and remove the perpetrators. Islam remained the dominant religion, but the Imams were not permitted to take over the government.
The Turkish Generals miscalculated, however, when they let an Islamist regime take power around the time of the war against Saddam Hussein. That Islamist government entrenched itself, gradually took back control of the police and the army, and succeeded in jailing those Generals who finally stepped in, too late, and tried to stop it. Turkey is now an Islamic state.
The same thing would have happened in Egypt, if the Generals there didn’t step in before the Muslim Brotherhood was allowed to gain too much dominance. Islam is very good at taking over political control, and EXTREMELY difficult to remove once in place.
It remains to be seen whether the Egyptian Generals have acted in time or not. But let us hope. Obama and Hillary and, sadly, the French will be sorely disappointed if the Generals manage to get the Brotherhood back out of power again. But the rest of the world should rejoice, and ignore the idiots in the MSM who will predictably start screaming about tyranny and violation of Egypt’s populist rights. In this case, those populist rights would turn the country over to Muslim fanatics and set the country back 1500 years, not to mention the damage to all Egypt’s neighbors.
I think the Generals have learned from Turkey and they’ve allowed things to deteriorate under “Parliament” enough that the common Egyptian may prefer the “good old days”. I also suspect that they’ve gotten the OK from key allies for this move. If not expect the Obama/Clinton State Department to pick the wrong side again.
Excellent summary!
Every FReeper should read your post #6.
The Moslem Brotherhood is deep into the USA
led in by the undocumented Tyrant and his
terrorist-protecting AG supported by the
useless Congress that wallows in treason.
Want proof? Just look at the Hasan who went
from Inaugural Committee to Murdering Terrorist
to Protected Asset of the DNC/DOJ/Obama.