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Egyptian Democracy?

Somehow I doubt that this is going anywhere.  Our concept of democracy stems from a nascent middle class society.  I doubt Egypt is ready.  Reza Aslan wrote about this in his history of Islam.  What was once a real democracy movement in Egypt, he says, was undermined by a lack of outside support during the cold war era.  What is left is the Muslim Brotherhood, an effort to conflate the 1400 year old Constitution of Medina with its patina of Muslim fundamentalism.

Of course, I do not know enough or much of anything of the reality in the streets of Cairo.  Does ElBaradei have a lot more to him than is apparent from this far away?   Is service in the UN preparation for Islamic Democratic leadership?


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