Afteryou stop laughing, what is happening is not weird at all. It is thedemos in action, a little faster than usual thanks to moderncommunication, but in action nonetheless. A conservative Muslimbrotherhood has over played its hand and is now watching as itsopposition coalesces into a strong sectarian brotherhood. We willhave two strands as usual who must cooperate to get much done.
Moreimportantly, the Muslim Brotherhood is learning the limits on itssupport and real power just as Mubarak did.
Inthe meantime the military largely stays out of sight to protect theirperks as much as they are allowed.
Notmuch is wrong when both the old regime and the Muslim Brotherhood ischastened. We may even see a valid constitution come out of thisturmoil. At that point we will have a vibrant elected governmentfully supported and surely a strongly subdued factionalism unable toinflict much damage.
Overand over again, the implementation of a fair democracy provides hopefor minorities to find sponsorship and protection and this endsconflict. Egypt's progress from the starting gun has been actuallyrather swift. This present outburst has increased my faith in asuccessful resolution here.
Goodpeople are rising and the demos has put its foot down which should beenough. The would be pharaohs are slipping into the night.
Things are gettingweird in Egypt
An odd alliancebetween pro-democracy activists and Mubarak loyalists is raisingeyebrows. Who is playing who?
ErinCunninghamDecember 6, 2012 13:36
http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/regions/middle-east/egypt/121206/egypt-protests-morsi-mubarak-muslim-brotherhood-islamists
CAIRO, Egypt —Thirty-four-year-old Sara Ebeid had never before participated in ananti-government protest.
She was a supporter ofEgypt’s ousted dictator, Hosni Mubarak, and opposed the 2011revolution.
But all that changedTuesday night, when she joined tens of thousands of Egyptians outsidethe presidential palace to protest Mohamed Morsi’s new,wide-ranging powers.
Ebeid, who works forNokia, stayed for the demonstration Wednesday night too. That protestturned violent. Clashes erupted between those for and against Morsi,leaving at least six people dead and 650 injured.
It was Egypt’sfiercest street battle since Morsi assumed office in June. OnThursday, Morsi sent in tanks to disperse the crowd.
“I never went downto Tahrir to protest with the revolutionaries because I’ve alwaysbeen felool,” Ebeid said, using an Arabic word that has evolvedinto a derogatory term meaning “remnants” or supporters of theMubarak regime. “But right now we have the same goal. I want Morsiout.”
Ebeid’stransformation into a protester illustrates an odd twist in Egypt’stumultuous post uprising history. As opposition to Morsi growsfierce, an unlikely alliance is forming between pro-democracyrevolutionaries and the counterrevolutionary bloc that rejectedthe 2011 uprising.
The latter grouplargely supported security crackdowns on TahrirSquare demonstrators at the time, and many voted for thepro-military candidate Ahmed Shafiq in last summer’s elections.
This most recent waveof protests emerged from a confrontation between Morsi, a formerMuslim Brotherhood leader, and the country’s judiciary, which issympathetic to Mubarak and the military. In June, The SupremeConstitutional Court voted to dissolve the parliament, which wasdominated by Islamists after a democratic election.
Morsi later respondedby decreeing greater powers for the presidency, allowing him tooperate outside the control of the judiciary. The move was widelyseen as step back toward dictatorship and protests erupted. Ahastily written constitution that lacks the support of secular forcesand Egypt’s Coptic Christian church, only made matters worse.The alliance betweenMubarak supporters and liberal activists was made nearly officialWednesday when three titans of Egyptian politics joined forces inopposition to Morsi.
Amr Moussa, a formerMubarak official, and Hamdeen Sabbahi, a longtime Mubarak opponent —as well as the liberal Nobel Laureate Mohamed ElBaradei — will nowform the most unlikely of political coalitions.
In another surprise,pro-democracy activists have thrown their support behind thejudiciary, which despite a contingent of reform minded judges, isconsidered a corrupt Mubarak holdover in desperate need of reform.
The majority ofEgypt’s judges have halted their work in protest against the Morsidecree sidelining the judiciary. Some have announced they willboycott the judicial supervision of the constitutional referendum onDec. 15, which is required by law.
Mervat Sameh, a35-year-old accountant who protested outside the presidential palaceTuesday night, said it was time to put old divisions between therevolutionaries and Mubarak supporters aside.
“These people, theyare standing with us now. And in this situation, when they areputting their lives and livelihoods at risk, we have to trust them,”he said.
The uneasy cooperationis not without controversy.
Some activists warilyaccept the participation of those that balked at the goals of theanti-Mubarak uprising last year, if only to boost the numbers atanti-Morsi demonstrations. But for them, that’s as far as thealliance goes.
“Felool supportersare Egyptians who just chose something sinister. We must win themover, but never align ourselves with their goals,” Egyptianactivist, Wael Eskandar, posted on Twitter on Nov. 28.
The presence ofMubarak supporters at this week’s protests has added credibility toclaims by the Muslim Brotherhood that regime loyalists and themilitary are conspiring to unseat the democratically electedIslamists.
Brotherhood leadersand spokespeople have been quick to paint the protests as the work of“armed thugs,” supported and paid by the Mubarak faithful.
“The constitutionalcourt overstepped their legally imposed bounds, and [Morsi] had toreact,” said Ibrahim Al Iraqi, a Brotherhood leader in theEgyptian province of Dahqhleya. “And now, anti-revolutionary forcesand the remnants of the regime are inciting people to act againstEgypt’s interests.”
The political demandsof the new opposition — put forth by the coalition of ElBaradei,Moussa and Sabbahi — include Morsi rescinding his decree, callingoff the constitutional referendum, and the creation of a new, morerepresentative constituent assembly.
But pro-Mubarakprotesters like Ebeid are clear that, no matter what, they want theIslamists far from the seats of power.
“I don’t want totalk about the constitution. There can be no negotiations aboutthis,” she said. “I want Morsi out, I want the Brotherhood out. Idon’t want any religion close to or related to the state.”
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