Great job, Obama. You sure improved America’s reputation in the world. The Egyptians simply adore you. Not.
Mahmoud Badr, whose petition campaign helped to bring down Egypt’s Islamist president, insists the bloodshed that has followed is a necessary price for saving the nation from the Muslim Brotherhood.
And he has a message for U.S. President Barack Obama, who has expressed alarm at the violent crackdown on the Brotherhood that has led to more than 700 deaths: “Don’t lecture us on how to deal with the Brotherhood’s terrorism.”
As for aid money, he says, Obama can keep it – and “go to hell”.
This is the part of the story that doesn’t get nearly as much notice as it should:
Badr, like many Egyptians who consider themselves liberals, has little patience with the human rights groups who call the repression a setback for democracy.
“What Egypt is passing through now is the price, a high price, of getting rid of the Brotherhood’s fascist group before it takes over everything and ousts us all,” Badr, 28, told Reuters in a telephone interview.
The Muslim Brotherhood was never going to moderate. They were going to seize power, turn Egypt into an Islamist state, and attack Israel. Anyone who thinks otherwise simply wasn’t paying attention.
When the leader of the anti-Mubarak movement stands behind the Egyptian army’s takedown of the Brotherhood, you have to think that the narrative Western media is putting out there is just–wrong.