"Despite the Brotherhood’s softened tone, shared fears of counterrevolution have not redounded to its benefit. Mr Morsi’s year in office exposed a penchant for monopolising power that disturbed fellow Islamists as well as secular Egyptians. Two of the country’s main Salafist parties, who represent puritan religious trends but lack the Brothers’ cult-like structure, now openly advise the Brothers to apologise for past mistakes, and to call off a campaign of civil disobedience that does more to annoy the public than to attract sympathy. Egypt’s most prominent pro-Islamist columnist, Fahmy Huwaydi, counselled that the Brotherhood should follow the example of Iran’s Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, the founder of the Islamic Republic who after years of obstinacy ended the 1980-88 Iran-Iraq war with the declaration that to drink a cup of poison was better than to prolong the suffering."
Posted on: Thu, 26 Sep 2013 17:19:57 +0000
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