The vast majority of Egyptians have no desire for 'freedom' in the Western sense as you or I do. Our concept is individual liberty accompanied by individual responsibilities. That concept is totally foreign to them. They have no cultural basis to even comprehend that.
They do not believe in live and let live. They do not seek individual liberty. Their orientation is to tribes or clans or sects and the 'rights' of those entities. The individual is not central to them. It is group rights and group dominance they seek.
Egypt is about to flip into a very radical, authoritarian, Islamic state where individual liberty is not permitted or even desired and groups play out for control. And that will be just fine with the vast majority of Egyptians.
Yes, Mubarak by our standards is a tin pot dictator, but for that culture, he was pretty much a pussy cat. The crazies are going to win this one, and Egypt is heading back to the 7th Century. The entire Mideast is going to blow apart because of it.
Well said Ditto!