Top of the Agenda: Egypt Continues Brotherhood Crackdown
Analysis
"Four
months ago, General Abdel Fattah al-Sisi carried out a coup in Egypt
that overthrew President Mohamed Morsi and imprisoned the leadership of
the Muslim Brotherhood. Hardly a day now passes without some indication
of how the
new Egyptian regime seeks to erect a military-police state, crushing those who dare oppose it," the
Financial Times writes in an editorial.
"The White House under
Obama worked for the coming to power of the Muslim Brothers in 2012
in the context of an understanding that the latter would protect
American interests in the Middle East and across the Muslim world. The
dilemma that will confront the White House in the near future will be
the election of a new Egyptian president who would possibly be inspired
by the ideals of the Nasser era. And maybe this is the reason why the
Americans insist on an all-inclusive democratic process," Hussein Haridy
writes in
Ahram.
"By
removing their patronage from the Brotherhood and throwing their full
support behind the Egyptian military—and other regimes bent on crushing
the Brotherhood—the Saudis may be pushing the movement to become both
more extreme and more sharply anti-monarchical,
threatening the Islamic legitimacy of all the Arab monarchies," Vali Nasr writes in the
New York Times.
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