Re: Militants, Women and Tahrir Sq.
Bruce Geerdes <[email protected]>
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On Sun, Feb 6, 2011 at 9:46 AM, Lance McLain <lance-X3DuywwxauBWk0Htik3J/[email protected]> wrote: > “We do not worry about the Muslim Brotherhood,” Sherine said. “They might > win 25 percent of the votes, but if they do not perform then they will not > get votes the next time.” > > Sherine has a point. Partly because of Western anxieties, fundamentalist > Muslims have rarely run anything — so instead they lead the way in > denouncing the corruption, incompetence and brutality of pro-Western > autocrats like Mr. Mubarak. The upshot is that they win respect from many > ordinary citizens, but my hunch is that they would lose support if they > actually tried to administer anything. > Like Hama in Gaza? This "if they do not perform" threat also works against the other non-Islamist parties. -- dadl-ot mailing list http://mail.thehood.us/mailman/listinfo/dadl-ot_thehood.us http://news.gmane.org/gmane.music.dadl.ot