Muslim Brotherhood candidate's win is the best outcome of an election that leaves the military as the power behind the throne
Within hours of the result
being declared, and while our television screens were still showing
the scenes from Tarir Square, William Hague, the Foreign Secretary,
the US State Department, the Daily Mail and many of its readers
comments were leaping in with their “advice/instructions”, as to
how the new President of Egypt should manage the country. This mind
set is primarily associated with an almost obsessive compulsion in
the west and with the larger part of the western media, to
immediately conclude that any title of a party or group which
contains the word Muslim, or Islamist is automatically hostile and
must be isolated. The fact that Muslim Brotherhood was a banned
organisation and the new President Mohammed Morsi spent many years in
prison under the Mubarak regime, indicates the extent to which
western opinion is coloured by strategic expediency. In addition, as
their preferred candidate, Ahmed Shafik former Mubarak Prime
Minister, former General and still closely associated with SCARF, was
rejected at the polls, one may assume that the custom of injecting
billions of American Dollars every year in aid and military hardware
in exchange for political and strategic influence may be compromised.
The reality of course, is that the Military Council still holds much
power in Egypt and has recently curbed the powers of the President.
The next few weeks or even
months will be crucial in determining what path Egypt will follow.
Mohammed Moussa, 30, a translator, said ”Morsi is president in name
only, there are more battles to come.”
We have not yet concluded the
Egyptian revolution.
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