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Thursday, July 11, 2013

Egypt, Democracy & Revolution 2.0 or Recall 1.0 ?


By the fall of Morsi can we safely assume that Muslims cannot allow themselves to live in a democracy ? Answer is a overwhelming "Yes".You see that is why dictators go on to rule for decades together often with the false notion of democracy. Islamists (In this case Muslim Brotherhood) who loathed the very idea of democracy had to embrace electoral politics because in Egypt the big daddy is Army whose contemporary in the world is only ISI of Pakistan. But the degree of notoriety of these two groups is markedly different, at least the former appears to be standing by people and does not fund or survives in the industry of terrorism.

Strictly speaking we shall say that few thousand people by creating a commotion on streets deposed a democratically elected leader, Morsi may be ideologically dangerous for many in the world, but that is not the point. How a bunch of thugs can do what they think is right is a moot point. For the present stalemate Muslim Brotherhood is equally responsible. Given the face-lifting it acquired through electoral victory, it immediately started to implement its tyrannical agenda starting from the controversial presidential decrees and reluctance shown in forming the constitution acceptable to all to mention few which culminated in to a recent upsurge - Revolution 2.0 ?

People who learnt and are practicing politics systematically might suggest that if revolutions are too frequent it is no more a revolution but instability which will lead to anarchy. We have seen the sectarian bigotry at display when Sunnis killed and dragged the dead bodies of Shias at the protest site which has got nothing to do with revolution whatsoever. If a country is sliding to anarchy the reason is not only its leader but also people.

What Morsi probably did not know that by taking a hardline stance in some of his policies he was inviting a Recall 1.0 which will target his power with which he planned to perpetrate the Islamic agenda. Of course it appears to have shocked Muslim Brotherhood, and US is helpless whose role is limited to supplying needed aid to military. In the near western hemisphere I thought as an Islamic country, Egypt is going to break all the stereotypes by sustaining its democracy which was in its infancy. But I am proved wrong. For Muslim's to be ruled by a caliphate is some thing they hold dear than democracy.

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