[Pan_Yan]

Are we still writing big checks to the Egyptian government ?

No. We cut off funding when they threw out the terrorist backing Muslim Brotherhood. However several of the oil rich Arab countries have written 10 figure checks to the Egyptian military since then.

[Vigilanteman]

Yep. A wise thing to do since they understand their days in charge are over if the Islamists gain power.

I got a real education in Islam one afternoon when I was sitting in the business class lounge at Bahrain airport waiting for a connecting flight back home.

One of the perks of business travel for big companies was the right to use such lounges which offered such perks as complimentary snacks and cold drinks. Most of us were reasonable-- a bag or two of snacks, a can of juice, maybe a bottle of beer. But a group of Saudis who came in downed Heineken after Heineken, worse than I'd seen at any frathouse drinking party. When the Heineken was gone, they worked down to the next best label. They were worse than the Indians I'd seen on the rez guzzling someone's cologne.

And I had thought alcohol was strictly verboten by Islam. I guess such prohibition only applies when you are in the home country.

[af_vet_rr]

However several of the oil rich Arab countries have written 10 figure checks to the Egyptian military since then.

Correction, several of the oil-rich Arab countries that are worried about the Muslim Brotherhood have written out checks to the military.

Egypt maybe the first major country to completely reject the Muslim Brotherhood.