Today the Muslim Brotherhood candidate, Mohammed Morsi, has been declared the winner of the Egyptian presidential election. This is the outcome of the "Arab Spring" which sought greater democracy in Egypt. The Muslim Brotherhood is a group that believes in the implementation of Shria law, which is not exactly what all the young folks in Tahrir Square were looking for. The problem is that Cairo is not Egypt, and Egypt is not Cairo. The young, semi-secular, liberal people who represented the majority of the protesters were not the majority of the voters. The voters are mostly oriented towards Islamic religious views. The voters handed the Muslim Brotherhood the Egyptian parliament, which was a proposition so scary to the military that they dissolved the body. Then they wrote a Constitution designed to restrict the power of the Presidency because they knew that Mr. Morsi was going to win. Scariest of all, Mr. Morsi reportedly said that Jerusalem should be the capital of the new Muslim caliphate. Time to brush up on the book of Revelations, I suppose.
All of this goes to show that revolutions of the left almost always result in the status quo ante. The Russian revolt against the czars produced the murderous Soviet regime. The French Revolution resulted in the Great Terror. The election of Barack Obama has resulted in a president who believes he has unbounded power. Now the Arab Spring is resulting in the election of a terrorist to the Presidency of Egypt. And the scariest part, was there was no way it was going to work. Mr. Morsi's only opponent to emerge was the Prime Minister under the old regime that had just been toppled. Has anyone checked on Libya lately? Pure democracy is mob rule, which is why the United States' founders created a Republic with a representative democracy. I usually end these posts with a joke or sarcastic remark, but damned if I can find anything funny about what's going on in the Middle East right now.
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