the struggle for democracy in Egypt

[ddarm]

Even Juam Cole is worried about the future of Egypt governance.See http://www.juancole.com/2012/12/fundamentalist-constitution-alexandria.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+juancole%2Fymbn+%28Informed+Comment%29&utm_content=Yahoo%21+Mail
"The new constitution has about 25 disputed articles that could allow Muslim religious authorities to interfere in peoples’ private lives and to subordinate secular law and administration to Muslim canon law as understood by Muslim clerics."

 

[ddarm]

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/02/world/middleeast/comedian-accused-of-insulting-egyptian-president-to-be-investigated.html?src=recg

A decidedly different attitude towards freedom of exp<b></b>ression. In Egypt as in many other Islamic countries, insulting the president or Islam is a criminal offense.
It appears that hate speech - which repressive societies seek to criminalize - has expanded into 'insulting" speech or speech "critical" of public figures. Can intelligent public debate ever take place in such an environment?

 

[polostar88]

Democracy =/= liberalism or having rights. Democracy just means rule by the people. The vast majority of Egyptians are illiterate and want to live under an Islamic state with Islamic law. People were misled by the pro-Western protesters some time ago, not realizing they're a tiny minority in that country. Now when the people of Egypt want Islamic law, you guys are telling them that this is not "real" democracy. This is naive.

 

[scotttswan]

I found this quite interesting.

http://www.businessinsider.com/the-muslim-brotherhood-is-ruining-egypt-2013-5

 

[teinha]

It appears that those who warned of the probability of an Islamic sharia law government under Muslim Brotherhood leader, Morsi, were right after all. Coptic Christians, women and gays, head for the hills.

Apparently the average Egyptian "man in the street" ( not intended to exclude women) also began to think poorly of Morsi and the Muslim Brotherhood's failure to separate church and state. Maybe OP, Stella53, was prescient.