The revolution in Egypt, like all the other 'Arab Springs', was supposed to bring democracy and free elections. But that unfortunately is not what the civil disobedients got.
What they got was an affirmation of a long time plan, that is to bring the Muslim Brotherhood to power, something it had been denied a long time ago by Gamal Abdul Nasser in 1954.
Since then, it has proceeded underground, undeafeated and vocal. Now, its representative, president elect Morsi, is trying to reshape the legislature and the constitution to suit the needs of the Brotherhood, in a complete snub to those people who fought with their lives to obtain democracy.
And those people have not given up the fight. But now, instead of military cannons, which could be cognizant of world opinion and somewhat restrained by public opinion, the dissidents are finding a new kind of enemy: their fundamentalist brothers.
Such was the case yesterday, when comments on Facebook spilled over onto the streets and resulted in the death of three people.
The incident happened in the Nile Delta governorate of Sharqiya, 65 miles from Cairo. A 28 year old apparently insulted president Morsi on his Facebook profile. A supporter of Morsi, a 22 year old student and son of a prominent member of the Brotherhood soon picked up on it.
That sparked a bloody fight in which the 22 year old shot dead the 28 year old who had talked about Morsi in a derogatory manner, and another man who had come to his aid.
After that, villagers tried to capture the 22 year student, and set fire to his house, and when he escaped the fiery inferno, they beat him to death.
This kind of violence is becoming more prominent in Egypt and it could be a harbinger of the kind of strife that sees no end. If there is no signal from the president or from the Brotherhood to stop this kind of violence, there will be much more to come, as the opposition tries to regain the freedom it seems to have lost to the election.
Op-ED
Partial source : 5.7.13
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