"This is the third time in two decades Islamists are dislodged from power"

"... The international community looked the other way when the will of the Algerian and Palestinian people were thwarted when they elected Islamists in 1992 and 2006.  This is the third time in two decades Islamists are dislodged from power.  It remains to be seen if the West will take a strong stand against the military’s latest attempt to prevent Islamists from holding power.  It may indeed define the relationship between Islamist groups and Western governments for the foreseeable future.  The message such stand would send to people around the world will be profound.  Either the West stands for democratic principles and the rule of law or it does not.  When President Obama called Morsi on June 30, he admonished him that “democracy is about more than elections.”  But what is equally essential to recognize is that there is no democracy without respecting and protecting the legitimacy of its results regardless of its outcome.."