The Muslim Brotherhood's Dramatic Fall in Egypt

National Jounral ^ | July 4,2013 | Michael Hirsh

[Hojczyk]

On the eve of July 4, Arab secularists get a sort of Independence Day. But the real question is whether the Islamists ever learn to join the modern world.

But the lesson of Egypt, which for centuries has been considered the cultural and historical center of the Arab world, is perhaps the starkest of all.

Over the past year Morsi, the first elected Islamist head of state in Arab history, has been the subject of an unprecedented set of experiments. To wit: Could radical jihadists in power adapt and learn to govern pragmatically, especially by linking up Egypt's impoverished economy to the global system? Could an Islamist head of state renounce jihadist violence in practice instead of theory, in contrast to al-Qaida or its many offshoots, as well as Hamas and Hezbollah? Could Morsi work with the international community rather than consistently defy it, as the Iranian regime had done?

Morsi failed miserably on several of those counts, particularly and perhaps fatally the first. Egypt's economy remains a disaster, with rising food prices, long gas lines and daily blackouts. To her credit, U.S. Ambassador Anne Patterson warned Morsi of the dangers in a blunt speech in Alexandria this February, when she noted that the government owed billions to oil companies, was running out of foreign reserves, and that Morsi was failing to supply his people with the most basic needs.

As the oldest, most entrenched and most socially acceptable of these fundamentalist groups, the future direction of the Muslim Brotherhood is being critically tested too, and not only in Egypt but in Syria as well, should Bashar al-Assad fall. As in Egypt, Syria's exiled Muslim Brotherhood has long carried the political prestige of being the only organized group to have opposed the regime over the decades.

[Hojczyk]

Is this guy for real?? Morsi = Muslim Brotherhood ....Well he is X-Neewsweek .

[Nervous Tick]

>> To her credit, U.S. Ambassador Anne Patterson warned Morsi of the dangers

I’ve done a tiny bit of net research on Ms. Patterson. Of course, every single playa in the Odingo regime is always suspect... but she seems to be not a political hack but a long term foreign service professional, and a not entirely bad one at that.

If anyone has any facts to the contrary, bring ‘em, I’d like to know the truth...

[Tijeras_Slim]

Other than participating, and perhaps being instrumental in the youtube apology tour, I suspect you’re right. ;)

[alloysteel]

The Muslim Brotherhood did not take a “fall”, they were only crowded into a “strategic regrouping” The MB is STILL the best organized political faction in Egypt.

You can’t beat somebody with nobody.

[Biggirl]

I am just how fast both Morsi and the MB fell.

[Tucker39]

I have no idea HOW it will come to pass or shake out; but there is coming a day when Egypt, Assyria and Israel are going to bury the hatchet and smoke the peacepipe. And both Egypt and Assyria will forsake the heathen moon god they’d been worshipping and worship the Living God Yahweh, right along with Israel. And all three will worship the Messiah, the Lord Jesus Christ. This may even take place in the millennium, but here it is.....

Isaiah 19:23-25 AMP “In that day shall there be a highway out of Egypt to Assyria, and the Assyrian shall come into Egypt, and the Egyptian into Assyria; and the Egyptian will worship the Lord with the Assyrian. In that day Israel shall be the third, with Egypt and with Assyria in a Messianic league, a blessing in the midst of the earth. Whom the Lord of hosts has blessed, saying, Blessed be Egypt My people and Assyria the work of My hands and Israel My heritage.”

[Datom]

I think maybe the army is the best organized and is somebody. Being political is debatable but they appear to be listening to the will of the people which isn’t bad.

[expat2]

Not the best-organized — the Army is the best-organized political faction.

[bgill]

Not to worry, hussein will invite them to the WH and give them a billion tax dollars to regroup.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Hojczyk.

Over the past year Morsi, the first elected Islamist head of state in Arab history, has been the subject of an unprecedented set of experiments. To wit: Could radical jihadists in power adapt and learn to govern pragmatically, especially by linking up Egypt's impoverished economy to the global system? Could an Islamist head of state renounce jihadist violence in practice instead of theory, in contrast to al-Qaida or its many offshoots, as well as Hamas and Hezbollah? Could Morsi work with the international community rather than consistently defy it, as the Iranian regime had done?

Morsi and his fellow MB criminals were pushing Egypt toward the same permanent state of war found in every other jihadist state or failed state.