By Musa Khalil
Theafricareport - Friday, 31 January 2014
The Arab Spring in 2011 ended with once-marginalised Islamist parties
in governments in Egypt and Tunisia. It was not long before they
stumbled.
In one fell swoop on 3 July, the venerable
Islamist movement the Muslim Brotherhood lost 85 years of patient labour
and squandered the chance – at least in the foreseeable future – for
political Islam in Egypt.
To the very last, even after the military announced it was taking
over, President Mohamed Morsi and his aides remained defiant, hoping
they could still face down the army.
It was this same hubris and
naivety that had allowed hostility to accumulate to the point where the
military could act against Morsi, just one year after his election in
the country's first democratic vote.
Now hounded, jailed and
killed en masse in protests amid the widespread applause of many of
their compatriots, the Muslim Brotherhood is in tatters but convinced
that there can be no turning back.
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