[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Looks like many of the people are rejecting the Brotherhods vision and adopting the secualr west leaning views.

A hugh blow to the ambitions of the Islamist views in the Middl East countries.

Will Al-Queda introduce it's bombers to Egypt.?

[17th Miss Regt]

The Brotherhood... renounced violence decades ago...

BS.

[katana]

The Egyptians generally take a lot of pride in their nation's very long and of course mostly pre-Islamic history and see themselves as apart from the rest of the Arab world. Even physically they do not resemble other Arab peoples. Some of the faces one sees walking down a Cairo street are spitting images of 5,000 year old tomb portraits. There are decent brands of Egyptian beer and Cairo street life has more in common with Paris than it does with Riyadh.

So from the very start the objectives of the Muslim Brotherhood, turning Egypt into a strict Islamic, quasi Wahhabi, Sharia state was not going to be easy. The MB took power after the fall of Mubarak more because they were (and still are) the only unified political organization in the country that could challenge the military than any popular sentiment in their favor. A return to government with the Egyptian military, the main power center in the country and ultimate "guardians of the nation", looking over its shoulder will be to most Egyptians a comforting return to what is for them normalcy.

And as a PS, the Islamists running Turkey are facing a similar problem.

[Zhang Fei]

The military was wise to act before the Muslim Brotherhood had seized control of all the organs of power. If the Iranian military had been equally wise, Iran would have been spared the decades-long rule of the mullahs.

[red-dawg]

[Fiji Hill]

Egypt won its independence from Britain after a 1952 revolution by army officers led by Gamal Abdel Nasser.

Actually, independence from Britain came gradually, beginning in 1922, when Britain granted Egypt "full independence," although the country remained essentially a British protectorate. In 1947, British troops were withdrawn to the Suez Canal Zone, and the next year, Egypt, now virtually independent, fought a war with Israel.

[libstripper]

"Every minute that passes without the armed forces' intervention to perform its duties and protect the lives of Egyptians will waste more blood, especially since the person in the presidential position has lost his legitimacy and eligibility, and maybe even his mind," ElBaradei said.

Much the same could be said about our own Obama's American and America hating, Islamocommunist, constitution destroying, prosperity destroying regime.

[BerryDingle]

I think Egypt’s problems began when George Soros, Bill Ayers, and Zippy got together. Occupy Wall street was liberal projection of Arab Spring. Zippy’s stupid mouth almost started an Irish Spring too.

[Wuli]

“It renounced violence decades ago and concentrated on social and religious programs”

while it is simultaneously alligned with and on good terms with clerics who teach jihad that does not renounce violence

the MB and Al Queda are rooted in the same philosohphy founded by the same leaders

they play good cop bad cop in the Muslim world and on the world stage, with MB suggesting they should be appreciated over the Al Queda types who are violent, all the while their overall Islamist aims are identical

its one giant ruse

while Al Queda seeks the same goals through violence, which they hold in common with the Taliban, someone else had to play the role of the nice guy so that they could work through subversion

[katana]

You are no doubt correct. Someone set light to the fuse at that particular moment and fed the resulting fire which toppled Mubarak. Same with Qaddafi and Assad. Neither was or is what one could call a good guy but the former, after Iraq, was under control and the latter and his party running Syria are "the Devil we know". Helping change Turkey from a neutral player vis a vis the Arab Israeli dispute with a 90 year history of strict secular and western oriented government into a new Sunni Muslim Brotherhood satrap is another part of the game.

This cancer runs very deep and its target is to surround Israel with fanatic Sunni regimes (Riyadh calling) and destroy her. For Soros this is just finishing the job he started on a tiny scale as a Kapo in Budapest. For all of them its the agenda of the Beast.

[Billthedrill]

The author left out one thing the Egyptians haven't forgotten - the Islamic Jihad members who assassinated Anwar Sadat in 1981 were associated with the Muslim Brotherhood. One of their leaders was a fellow we've come to know and detest, Ayman al-Zawahiri.

And yes, the Turks are watching this thing very carefully.