Egypt’s ‘disenfranchised moderates’ stuck between militarists and fundamentalists “We are stuck in the middle between military and fundamental authoritarianism,” says Bassam Maher, an activist and NGO worker: Even some critics of both the Mubarak and Morsi governments see a deep state triumphant, VOA’s Elizabeth Arrott notes. But like political analyst and publisher Hisham Kassem, they put the blame on Morsi himself. “He fell out with, basically, the judiciary, the media, the foreign office, the police force, the military, Al Azhar mosque and the church. And they resisted. You cannot subdue these pillars of the state,” said Kassem [for whom] the concept of a deep state and entrenched institutions is not necessarily negative. - See more at: demdigest.net/blog/2013/07/egypts-disenfranchised-moderates-stuck-between-militarists-and-fundamentalists/#sthash.9bO8zfc9.dpuf
Posted on: Wed, 31 Jul 2013 19:25:34 +0000
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