Just think Hamas, but only bigger.
The revolution was doomed to failure without a civil society in place before the removal of the dictator. Mubarak acted as a buffer against the even more hostile to human rights, Muslim Brotherhood. This is Obama’s legacy.
Egypt constitutional vote: ‘Things are definitely worse than under the old regime’
As Egyptians vote on whether to adopt the new constitution, Richard Spencer talks to those promoting the new rules – and those fearful of what is to come.
When Alber Saber’s mother called police to protect him from a mob baying for his blood, something odd happened: they arrested him. They then threw him in prison, encouraged his cellmates to attack him, and finally took him to court where he was jailed for three months.
Mr Saber’s alleged offence was all the more significant in light of the new constitution – being voted on by millions of Egyptians on Saturday – that is at the heart of Egypt’s political crisis.
The mob in his Cairo suburb accused him of atheism and disrespect of the Prophet Mohammed, and demanded he be killed; a neighbour had alleged he had posted to his Facebook page the now notorious Islam-mocking video that triggered protests across the world in September.
His mother, Kariman Ghali, cries frequently as she describes visiting him in prison the day after the mob surrounded their apartment block.
“He had blood all over his T-shirt,” said Mrs Ghali, who claims her son was put in a wing reserved for dangerous inmates. “The policeman told the prisoners, ‘This guy insulted the Prophet, I want to see what you can do with him.’ Someone stabbed him with a razor.”
