While the American media saturates viewers with coverage on the Paula Deen scandal and George Zimmerman’s trial, the largest political protests in the history of mankind are rocking Egypt. Since June 30th, an estimated 11-33 million Egyptians filled the capital’s squares with banners, flags and demands that President Mohamed Morsi resign. Morsi represents the Muslim Brotherhood, a terrorist-linked party that the American taxpayer just gifted $450 million dollars in aid and a mini-fleet of F-16 fighter jets. The Egyptian military issued an ultimatum to the Muslim Brotherhood yesterday: share power or face coup d’état. The country tensely waits as the deadline approaches. News outlets simplify the murky conflict as an equally-divided disagreement between “hundreds of thousands” of Islamists and secularists vying for control of a democracy, but is that the case? Does Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood face a popular revolt against their burgeoning Islamic dictatorship or are Egyptians fickle populists eager to replace one set of tyrants for another?
Posted on: Wed, 03 Jul 2013 01:04:41 +0000
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