The Police State vs. The Muslim Brotherhood

Thomas Secrest
15 Aug 2013
Prague, CZ

The Police State vs. The Muslim Brotherhood

It's not very often that we really have to acknowledge that you don't know who to support in a dispute. We may talk about this kind of thing happening on a theoretical basis, but it just doesn't happen very often.

Egyptians came a long way to get rid of Mubarak and to a certain degree they were lucky that the military had allowed a vote to go forward. The military had little to gain and a lot to lose by sitting quietly while the country experimented with democracy.

At least in the near-term I'm sure the military was planning to retain much of their power, while letting citizens enjoy a fair amount of increases personal freedom and liberty. This wouldn't have been a perfect solution and in time the tyranny at the heart of every police state would have had to be thrown off. Whether it could have been done in a more or less peaceful way is anyone's guess. We'll never know.

Unfortunately the Egyptians never got a chance to experience the freedoms and liberties they came so close to having. Instead, through the use of smoke, mirrors and the ballot box, a group of men calling themselves the Muslim Brotherhood took power.

Through ignorance and arrogance they started to create their Islamic state. A state which, if it had gone unchecked, would have been at least as bad and perhaps worse than the Mubarak government. An Islamic state cannot be a democracy and it is regrettable that the world watched and endorsed elections of people who by their nature and religion are anti-democratic. When it comes to what GOD wants, there are usually no options and voting is out of the question.

When Christopher Hitchens wrote "How Religion Poisons Everything" he had no idea how completely Egypt was going to prove his point. In recent history there may be no more glaring example of a situation in which religion grabbed defeat from the jaws of victory.

Those who thought that god spoke to them and had told them how all people should live, rushed in and dashed the precious ember of liberty with the bitter fluid that drips from documents such as the Koran; all while those too childish, too cowardly or too stupid to know better, stood by and cheered. The Islamic sheep of Egypt voted in huge numbers for those who would lead them, by the nose as slaves, into to the promise land.

The military will think twice before experimenting with liberty and democracy again and the Egyptian people, who had fought so hard for liberty and won so much, will once again live with boots on their necks.

Which boots are better? If I had to pick, and I'm glad I don't, I guess I would go with military boots.

Perhaps the meek will inherit the earth, however, it is fairly clear that the sheep shall not.