A 2.1 million dollar bribe is only the tip of the iceberg. No one is commenting on the Muslim Brotherhood’s use of people like this and indigenous secular liberals as the false face of Arab Spring. Egypt and the other countries of the Arab Spring have quickly discarded the soft faces to reveal Islamic theocratic states.
Postscript: Moderate Muslims do exist. They are the ones the Fundamentalist Islamists take such delight in killing.
There is no telling what the actual ransom is.