Posted on 07/05/2013 9:49:39 AM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
CAIRO — Sheik Mohamed Abu Sidra had watched in exasperation for months as President Mohamed Morsi and the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood bounced from one debilitating political battle to another.
“The Brotherhood went too fast, they tried to take too much,” Sheik Abu Sidra, an influential ultraconservative Islamist in Benghazi, Libya, said Thursday, a day after the Egyptian military deposed and detained Mr. Morsi and began arresting his Brotherhood allies.
But at the same time, Sheik Abu Sidra said, Mr. Morsi’s overthrow had made it far more difficult for him to persuade Benghazi’s Islamist militias to put down their weapons and trust in democracy.
“Do you think I can sell that to the people anymore?” he asked. “I have been saying all along, ‘If you want to build Shariah law, come to elections.’ Now they will just say, ‘Look at Egypt,’ and you don’t need to say anything else.”
From Benghazi to Abu Dhabi, Islamists are drawing lessons from Mr. Morsi’s ouster that could shape political Islam for a generation. For some, it demonstrated the futility of democracy in a world dominated by Western powers and their client states. But others, acknowledging that the takeover accompanied a broad popular backlash, also faulted the leaders of the Muslim Brotherhood for reaching too fast for so many levers of power.
The Brotherhood’s fall is the greatest in an array of setbacks that have halted the once seemingly unstoppable march of political Islam. As they have moved from opposition to establishment, Islamist parties in Turkey, Tunisia and now Egypt have all been caught up in crises over the secular practicalities of governing like power sharing, urban planning, public security or even keeping the lights on.
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Arresting the opposition to fast should always be concern of a new dictator, one must proceed at the correct speed. The only weapons we should be giving to these people should be dropped from above.
It’s hard to have ‘separation of church and state’ when the church is the state...............
In the childlike mind of a leftist, Communists, Islamist, and Dictators are never wrong. They always just move too fast. I guess the NYT is “surprised” again.
By who's definition is he "ultraconservative"? The NYT's? So he isn't as blatant as some radical mooselimbs about his desire to see the world covered in islamism. That makes him "ultraconservative"?
Liberalsim is a mental disease and if it is not eradicated it could get us all killed (except the true liberals, who will submit to anyone who might hurt them).
This is fascinating and frustrating to me. In the past two years, the Egyptians have had TWO revolutions to overthrow their crappy rulers.
But, in the US, we have had over 5 years to overthrow OUR crappy rulers and we have done nothing. Are we REALLY that apathetic? Are we REALLY so lethargic that we can’t be taken away from American Idol, Survivor, Dancing with the Twits or a televised sports event to unload the worst administration in our history; the worst Congress in history; and, possibly, the worst SCOTUS in history??
Meanwhile, we are watching our country being dragged into the sewer on a daily basis by the ineligible thug in the WH and we won’t do anything about it!!
What a sad commentary about the state of America today. If we start now, we may make it through every national cemetary apologizing to the veterans who gave their lives fighting just so we could come to this point in our history!
If Muslims had a lick of sense, they’d ask their imams why Allah didn’t step in and save Morsi and the Muslim Brotherhood if they were doing his will by installing Sharia law.
Hard line muzzies are leftist by nature and their natural allies in WWII were the national socialist party or NAZIS!
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Beware the backlash.
We got through this cycle of “Friday Prayers” without much violence, but there’s always next week...
Meanwhile in Syria the little lion seems to be gushing with joy as how a Wahabist/Salafiest got the boot.
So ,...now what does Obama do in Syria...?
Good question....we equate them in this country...to our peril with Obama..
"The Brotherhood went too fast, they tried to take too much," Sheik Abu Sidra, an influential ultraconservative Islamist in Benghazi, Libya, said Thursday... But at the same time, Sheik Abu Sidra said, Mr. Morsi’s overthrow had made it far more difficult for him to persuade Benghazi's Islamist militias to put down their weapons and trust in democracy.Oh yeah, that's the reason. Here's another 'sheik' that we need to put into dirt nap time.
For the Sheik, democracy is a means, not an end. As one wag put it: For an Islamist, democracy means ‘one man, one vote, one time’. And indeed, after his election, Morsi made a grab for dictatorial power. He failed, but not for lack of trying.
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