Arab-spring

Morsi’s victory does not mean that democracy has triumphed in Egypt

The Muslim Brotherhood has already denounced the constitutional declaration, but the SCAF is unlikely to give in on that point after conceding Morsi’s triumph.

the secular parties that claimed that their past performance in the elections was poor because they did not have adequate time to organize do not appear to be making the massive effort to build their parties that they need in order to be successful the next time around

Supporters of Mr Shafiq, who had been holding a rally in the capital's northern suburb of Nasser City, were stunned by the result. There was screaming and crying and people were seen holding their heads in despair.

Security had been tight for the announcement, with tanks and troops deployed around the election commission's headquarters

Hours after the result, Mr Mursi resigned from his positions within the Muslim Brotherhood including his role as chairman of its Freedom and Justice Party (FJP) as he had pledged to do in the event of his victory

The leftist and secular revolutionaries, particularly reform leader Mohammed ElBaradei, argued that elections supervised by the military would be a farce and any constitution would be tainted. Instead, they proposed a civilian leadership grouping the "revolutionary powers" immediately start to rule and oversee the constitution.Divided and politically inexperienced, they were resoundingly overruled. The Muslim Brotherhood and other Islamists - who had joined the revolt against Mubarak - broke with the revolutionaries and backed the military-run transition. They had no time for worries over military rule or talk of a revolutionary government, keeping a laser-like focus on elections in which they were confident of vaulting to power on a strong popular base.Now the revolutionaries are saying: We told you so.

A turning point was a referendum in March 2011 in which the public overwhelmingly approved the military's plan for the transition. The Islamists strongly backed the plan, even proclaiming a "yes" vote to be required by God. The public trusted the military, was enamored at the promise of free elections and saw the revolutionaries' alternative as vague. The plan passed with 70 percent of the vote.From then on, the military pointed to that referendum as proof of legitimacy for whatever it did.

there was no move to dismantle the system that Egyptians had risen up against

Les organisations salafi saoudiennes et qataries sont très actives sur le plan national et international

Les Etats-Unis ainsi que les pays européens n’ont aucun problème à négocier avec la sorte d’islamisme promue par les salafi littéralistes que l’on trouve dans de nombreuses pétromonarchies : ces régimes peuvent bien s’opposer à la démocratie ainsi qu’au pluralisme, ils n’entravent néanmoins d’aucune manière les intérêts économiques et géostratégiques occidentaux dans la région, ou au niveau international. Ils comptent même sur le soutien de l’Occident pour survivre : cette dépendance utile est suffisante à l’Occident pour justifier une alliance objective - avec ou sans démocratie.

Pourquoi, se demande-t-on, les pays occidentaux apportent-ils un soutien direct et indirect aux idéologies islamistes qui sont de toute évidence en désaccord avec les leurs ? Après près d’un siècle de présence active au Moyen Orient, et en particulier après la Première Guerre Mondiale, des administrations américaines successives, ainsi que leurs homologues européens, ont mieux compris comment elles peuvent gérer et tirer profit de la relation qu’elles entretiennent à la fois avec les pétromonarchies et avec l’idéologie salafi que ces dernières produisent et propagent

Article 5: Articles of the draft constitution should be reached by consensus among assembly members. If this proves impossible, articles should be determined by vote