Thursday, January 5, 2012

"The Deal" between the Egyptian military & the Brotherhood

I hate to agree (sigh) with Rick Santorum on this: Santorum on NBC's"Meet the Press":
Santorum: "The Muslim Brotherhood are Islamists. The Muslim Brotherhood are going to impose Sharia law."
Gregory: "They were popularly elected, I think, ...Isn't that what democracy is about?"
Santorum: "No!" 
"... Less certain, however, is how far the Islamists will go in confronting the ruling military council, whose 10 months in power have been marked by acts of repression that in many cases have exceeded those that took place during the 30 years that Hosni Mubarak ran the country before resigning last February. At each skirmish between the generals and protesters, influential Islamists have been slow to criticize the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces, leaving activists worried that the first elected body of post-Mubarak Egypt won't work hard enough to uproot the old order and lead a real democratic overhaul. In return for their relative passivity in the face of military abuses, the Islamists have been exempt from the harsh measures that have been visited on other political groups, the activists charge..."

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