Pro-Mursi vigils to be brought to an end -Egypt interior minister

[Comrade Grumpy]

13. Morsi was the democratically elected president of Egypt.

His party won repeated elections. While there was street violence throughout his presidency, I don't recall him using the military or the police to massacre his opponents. (Maybe because the military and police were on the side of his opponents.) He had some authoritarian leanings and was apparently inept. He should have been defeated in the next election.

Look, political Islams represents the views of substantial numbers of people not only in Egypt but throughout the Middle East. It is by its nature conservative and religious. I wouldn't vote for those guys. But it's not my country. If you deny a political space for Islam in a democratic process, you're probably going to end up with more trouble than you imagined.

No, Morsi is not as bad as Sisi, and not even in the same ballpark as Pinochet.

Where are all those liberal secular democrats who were howling for democracy a month ago? Looks like that was all bullshit. It wasn't democracy they wanted, but the power they couldn't win at the ballot box. And now they have a general in charge, one who is massacring the opposition. Sweet.