Avoiding Algeria in Egypt
Like their Algerian counterparts – who in 1992 approved of the army’s suppression of an Islamist electoral victory, leading to years of brutal fighting that left perhaps a half-million dead – many Egyptians don’t mind repressing Islamists. To avoid that fate, Muslim Brotherhood members’ fundamental rights must be protected.
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PORTO – The military coup that has overthrown Egypt’s first democratically elected president and led to the arrests of Muslim Brotherhood leaders across the country poses an enormous danger not only for Egypt’s democratic transition, but for the democratic hopes of the entire Arab world as well.