Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood is not a benevolent society
By Michael Coren, MercatorNet
Its links with radical Islamists and a history of supporting terror make Egypt’s largest opposition group a danger for peace in the Middle East.
Westerners, Western journalists in particular and Western liberal journalists to an almost obsessive degree like to think the best of radicals and revolutions in the developing or less privileged world. In some ways it’s kind and almost gentle; in others it’s downright naive and dangerous. If you doubt me, ask Laura Logan how it felt being sexually abused by a mob of Cairo men screaming for change and chanting “Jew, Jew” at the poor woman. She is not, by the way, Jewish.
That, however, was one vile incident, which was transformed into a debate about the safety of women journalists rather than the nature of the Arab mob. How often, for example, are female reporters concerned about how political crowds will treat them in Italy or Germany or New Zealand?
But such a question, runs the argument, implies the making of moral distinctions in cultures and societies and is thus elitist and wrong. More horrible and far less reported was the abduction and murder of Christians during the Egyptian revolution, or the burning of a synagogue in Tunisia.
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