Egypt considers dissolving Muslim Brotherhood

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17. Actually, try educating your children the way you want even in some states.

Homeschool is made difficult. And, in some states, well regulated.

As for the rest, you're arguing whose moral code should be foisted on society, no more, no less. You think yours is liberating; they think theirs is liberating.

You have no common basis for discussion. And neither has enough compassion or empathy to even try to see the other's point of view.

The best you can work out is to separate the ideology and religion from the parties themselves. Let the party be more pragmatic and democratic, so that if the ideology says X the party in power says, "we'll push towards X, but take into account others' views." The minority party says, "we accept that elections have consequences, but we'll push to have our views taken into account by participating in the process at every level."

What happened is that the majority leaders were pretty much what they should have been. I have trouble faulting the final version of the bills I've seen; the Constitution was ambiguous--some fairly "liberal" Islamic states have similar language, and it's all in the interpretation of boilerplate. I've even seen the initial version of bills at odds with what the MB wanted. With no hint of "glad all that election stuff is over, once and for all."

What I've seen in the minority party is an unwillingness to participate because they wouldn't get the whole enchilada. The worst interpretations of the Constitution are presumed to be the only interpretations, analogies in other countries notwithstanding. The MB and Morsi/parliament were conflated, with cleric pronouncements put into the mouth of Morsi. A failure to acknowledge that bills were revised as the result of compromise. And a real reluctance to admit that elections should have consequences if they don't like them.

You're talking fear. Most of that is based on what suspicions said would happen, with the last straw being a bill that changed and changed to be closer and closer to the "liberal" position with one exception: Banning funding from outside Egypt for NGOs. So guess where the funding that keeps most of the formerly opposition groups comes from?