Posted on 02/01/2012 3:42:35 PM PST by Olog-hai
Arriving in Egypt last year, Julie Hughes had hoped to help write history by aiding the country's new generation of politicians and civil society groups to build a democratic future.
Instead, the American director of the National Democratic Institute is under investigation by authorities for funding irregularities at her U.S.-based group and is banned from leaving Egypt, a measure that prompted other activists to seek refuge this week in the U.S. embassy in Cairo.
Her hope for change, inspired by the fall of Hosni Mubarak at the hands of hundreds of thousands of protesting Egyptians, was punctured on December 29 when her offices were raided in connection with an investigation by Egypt's new military rulers.
The work of NDI, which is loosely linked to the U.S. Democratic Party, had fallen prey to what Egyptian pro-democracy campaigners say is a war between remnants of Mubarak's inner circle and a rapidly developing civil society.
It's a war, some campaigners say, that is more vicious than the one they fought under Mubarak, and it could further sour relations between Cairo and Washington, putting $1.3 billion of annual U.S. military aid in jeopardy.
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I guess Obama’s dream of turning the whole world into one big Communist Muslim state is running into a couple of snags.
Many naive Infidels just don't understand fundamental Islam.
God's law (Allah's) is what a Muslim should be following, not some Girly Boy Infidel Jeffersonian type of laws where everyone is treated equally.
If our country gets much weaker, and is unlikely to respond, I expect the Muslims will do more than detain these numbskulls,to get the message across to us Infidels stay out of their Muslim business. - tom.
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