On 12/01/2014, at 3:26 PM, "Carrol Cox" <cbcox at ilstu.edu> wrote:
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> Up to this point your post was interesting.
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> Carrol
How so? And if so, you may care to comment on the interesting aspects. The only thing I found interesting was the attempt to portray the restoration of military dictatorship as "revolutionary", because the coup leaders (like the leaders of every military coup I can think of) claim to be transitory.
Jeez mate, don't these people have any kind of functioning Bullshit Detector?
Yes, Morsi represented highly authoritarian Islam tendency. But lets face it, Egypt is a highly authoritarian culture. Which explains why they have embraced the military dictatorship as enthusiastically as they embraced the Islamic authoritarian government of Morsi.
They are having a referendum on a new constitution atm. Everyone is saying that Egyptians will ratify it overwhelmingly, just as they overwhelmingly ratified the constitution Morsi proposed. This tells us that most Egyptians enthusiastically support whatever the authorities tell them to support.
Now I'm not saying they are a nation of sheep, you might very well think that, but I couldn't possibly comment. ;-)
Bill Bartlett Bracknell Tas