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Omar Mazin | Mar 13, 2012 | Comments 0

Commentary: The real threat in Egypt: Delayed democracy

Jackson Diehl wrote for the Washington post an op-ed on the “real threat in Egypt: Delayed democracy“:

A lot of people in Washington seem to think so, though they are talking about it quietly so far. Their fears are specific: that the Muslim Brotherhood and other Islamic fundamentalist parties will take power when Egypt’s first democratic elections are held later this year; and that peace with Israel — the foundation of a 30-year, American-backed order in the Middle East — is “hanging by a thread,” as Robert Satloff of the Washington Institute for Near East Policy put it.

No one in Egypt is talking about demolishing the peace treaty with Israel, even the Muslim Brotherhood. The Muslim Brotherhood is standing against the Israeli violations against humanity, despite of their complete understanding for the Egyptian foreign policy and its international complications.
So The Muslim Brotherhood cannot seek a new war with Israel, at the same time, they will express -in case of being in power- the real pulse of the Egyptian street.
So fearing the Muslim Brotherhood and thinking of them as the new threat in the region is unrealistic talk based on arbitrary speculations.

True, Islamist parties may win a plurality in the parliamentary elections. Estimates of their potential vote range from 10 to 40 percent. But that still means they would hold a minority of seats; and the Islamists themselves are divided into several factions. The strongest of them recognize that they will not be able to force a fundamentalist agenda on Egypt’s secular middle class or its large Christian minority, at least in the short and medium terms.

This paragraph is full of deceptions. First of all, The Muslim Brotherhood or the other moderate Islamists in Egypt don’t aim to impose or to force Sharia on the Egyptian people.
On the other hand, the Christian minority are believing in the Islamic component of the Egyptian civilisation! So being ruled by moderate Islamists is not representing a real fear for a very large section of the Egyptian Copts.

Those who worry about an Egyptian implosion sometimes hint that the elections should be further postponed or even canceled. In fact, the opposite is needed. The United States and other Western governments ought to adopt the demand put forward in a letter last week by Wael Ghonim, the Google executive who was one of the leaders of the revolution: that the military “quickly announce specific dates for the process of transferring complete power . . . to an elected civilian authority that would control everything in the nation.” Egypt’s problem is neither its revolution nor its prospective democracy: It’s what is happening — and may yet happen — between the two.

In Egypt, We believe that the best thing to do right now is to transfer the power to an elected civilian government, and the Muslim Brotherhood just like the other civilian political forces will not save any efforts to save Egypt and the whole region.

Omar Mazin | Oct 01, 2011 | Comments 0