And now the Christians are fleeing the country en-mass. Just yesterday Egyptian army APCs rammed through a crowd of Christian protestors, killing any that couldn’t get out of the way. A number of churches have been destroyed by “ultraconservative Islamists” and they routinely break into the homes of Christians and kill all who live there. If they were “fed up” with Mubarak I can’t imagine how they feel about the replacement regime…
It doesn’t really matter who was protesting so much as who started it. People don’t just go out and protest, someone has to plan and organize it. You think thousands of people just woke up on the same day and said to themselves “let’s go protest today?” As idealistic as that might be, that’s not how it works. The Muslim Brotherhood formed the snowball and pushed it down the hill. With the incumbent administration gone they became the dominant political faction in the country, all they needed was an “outraged” populace to toss a relatively peaceful (for the region) dictatorship out of the country and then they could roll in and take over. Within 15 years the country will be back under Sharia Law and they’ll be wishing they hadn’t tossed Mubarak out, that’s assuming they ever get out from under military dictatorship. Elections were supposed to happen last month and, well, didn’t. What did happen was in August 15 governors were appointed, most from the military. Yeah that country’s screwed and they have no one to blame but themselves.
Almost the exact same can be said for Libya. Some random army/police just fired into a peaceful and unarmed crowd of protestors? Planes bombed the crowds? Yeah ok. You’ll notice that out of all the videos posted online there wasn’t a single one that had any of that. In 40 years the history books will read that the Muslim Brotherhood, or someone else like them, fired into that crowd. They knew all it would take to ignite that powderkeg was a few people dead in the streets and lo and behold people got shot. Coincidence? Maybe if Egypt hadn’t just happened I’d be inclined to think so but after the extremely well played political manuevers that were done there I seriously doubt it.