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Offline TomSea

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The Atlantic: Egypt’s Only Democratic Leader Helped Kill Its Democracy
« on: June 24, 2019, 05:08:08 am »
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Egypt’s Only Democratic Leader Helped Kill Its Democracy
Thanassis Cambanis

Mohamed Morsi, who died yesterday, embodied the hope and flaws of Egypt’s revolution.

Jun 18, 2019

Mohamed Morsi greets supporters during Egypt's June 2012 presidential election.Mohamed Abd El Ghany / Reuters

In June 2012, I stood with hundreds of thousands of Mohamed Morsi’s supporters in Cairo’s Tahrir Square, where they prayed that the Egyptian military, still powerful behind the scenes, would allow a fair ballot count. Independent tallies suggested that the Muslim Brotherhood’s Morsi had squeaked past the military’s preferred candidate in Egypt’s first-ever free presidential election—the only question was whether the vote would be rigged.

“We will stay in this square until Morsi wins,” an engineer named Khaled told me. “We will stay here even after he wins.” When the results were announced, pandemonium broke out. Khaled hugged me, a complete stranger, with such force that his eyeglasses snapped.

At Morsi’s nearby campaign headquarters, his spokesman, Yahia Hamed, waxed poetic when I asked him how a Morsi administration would treat the police officers who had harassed, jailed, and tortured Muslim Brothers for more than half a century.

Read more at: https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2019/06/mohammed-morsi-hope-flaws-egypt-revolution/591928/
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Re: The Atlantic: Egypt’s Only Democratic Leader Helped Kill Its Democracy
« Reply #1 on: June 24, 2019, 06:12:37 pm »
I was wondering if anybody still buys the "Arab Spring" bullshit.  It's alive and well at The Atlantic.
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Re: The Atlantic: Egypt’s Only Democratic Leader Helped Kill Its Democracy
« Reply #2 on: June 24, 2019, 07:36:41 pm »
The fear of democracy in that region revolved around the premise it would happen once and the choice would be terrible. Morsi buttresses that point of view.
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I disagree.  Circle gets the square.

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Re: The Atlantic: Egypt’s Only Democratic Leader Helped Kill Its Democracy
« Reply #3 on: June 24, 2019, 07:41:24 pm »
Democracy is two wolves and a sheep voting on what's for dinner.
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Re: The Atlantic: Egypt’s Only Democratic Leader Helped Kill Its Democracy
« Reply #4 on: June 24, 2019, 07:57:37 pm »
One Person, One Vote, One Time..
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Re: The Atlantic: Egypt’s Only Democratic Leader Helped Kill Its Democracy
« Reply #5 on: June 24, 2019, 08:23:17 pm »
Posters are well informed and on the mark!!!
The Cradle of Civilization was the Fertile Crescent whose
governance were Emperors & Monarchs since 7000 BC.
Democracy never had anything to do w/their system.
W/the intolerance of Islam from the 7th century onward;
the Middle East, excepting Israel, permanently closed its
door to democracy!
This journo and the Atlantic are brain dead!!!
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