I would imagne people are finally sobering up to the reality that if the Islamic crazies take over, life will get FAR WORSE after Mubarak is gone.
Grass is not always greener on the other side of the fence.
To those suffering under a US backed secular tyrant, the Islamists may seem like freedom. But if they do not learn from History they will repeat it. The history of democracy for the Arabs is “one man, one vote, one time”. And if they think their life is hell under a secular tyrant, they will learn just how unbearable it is under a religious tyrant.
A secular tyrant at least isn't a moralist busybody making sure no women can work or go anywhere alone or be educated, etc, etc, etc.
“Political tags — such as royalist, communist, democrat, populist, fascist, liberal, conservative, and so forth — are never basic criteria. The human race divides politically into those who want people to be controlled and those who have no such desire. The former are idealists acting from highest motives for the greatest good of the greatest number. The latter are surly curmudgeons, suspicious and lacking in altruism. But they are more comfortable neighbors than the other sort.” Heinlein