Morsi was democratically elected, true. The army has seized power, also true. What happens next, though, is not up to newspaper leader writers, it’s up to the people of Egypt. It the state needs reforming, or for that matter smashing, it’s up to them – and them alone. Not that you’d think that from the complaints of the left and liberals. In their bizarro-world view of events, the Muslim Brotherhood was a moderate force in Middle Eastern politics. Deviate from this narrative and you can expect trouble. Shrill, career-ending claims of racism are unbelievably common on even the liberal left, with sad, but sadly effective, attempts to link anyone who’s not too keen on political Islam to crackpots like Pamela Geller or even Norwegian mass murderer Anders Brevik.
This is, of course, all rank hypocrisy. While silent about Morsi’s Muslim Brotherhood-penned constitution, a constitution whose provisions for freedom of religion excluded Bahais and atheists and made “the insulting of prophets” a crime, European liberals never stop moaning about Viktor Obrán’s political project in Hungary, which included measures such as as putting the central bank under the control of parliament. Shocking. What kind of country would let democratically elected politicians dictate monetary policy? Britain until 1997, for one, when Labour finance minister Gordon Brown gave-up control of the Bank of England and made it ‘independent’ (read as: unaccountable). That move turned out just fine, of course.
This isn’t the first time Westerners have been blindsided by the public in the Islamic world. Recent cheering-on of Turkish protestors is made easy by the fact that, as yet anyway, the protestors haven’t actually won, but attempts to frame what was a simple demand for rights and an objection to creeping theocratic rule in society as a protest against neo-liberalism or even nascent environmentalism would be painful if they weren’t so funny.
Western politically correct multiculturalism refuses to deal with people as individuals, instead forever locking them into misbegotten cultural boxes by assuming that self-appointed ‘community leaders’ have any right to speak on behalf of their communities.
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