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I’ve just received this dispatch from Patrick Kingsley in Cairo.
Millions are expected on Egypt’s streets later this afternoon, but Tahrir Square – the centre of anti-Morsi and pro-army sentiment in recent weeks – is only just starting to fill up.
It already has the feel of a military pageant. There are perhaps 5,000 already there, many wearing photographs of General Abdel Fatah al-Sisi – the army chief who forced Morsi from office following mass protests on 30 June – around their necks. Every 10 minutes, military helicopters fly over head to loud cheers from the crowd. Smiling protesters have their photos taken with the soldiers who are securing the entrances to the square, some of them sitting on large armoured personnel carriers.
The Western oriented secularists, with whom Americans rightly identify with, have placed their future well being and that of Egypt on the ability of the Army to suppress and control the worst elements of political Islam. Historically this strategy rarely works. The tragedy is that Morsi, unseen and unheard since July 3, has become an icon and martyr that will inspire the political Islamist throughout the world for a very long time. Sorry to say but the future in Egypt is not one of peace and prosperity.