Islamist demagogues in Egypt

Some people argued with me when I dismissed the Islamists of the Muslim Brotherhood.  I know that they suffer great repression: in one year in 2007, some 8000 members of them were arrested and not one word was uttered in protest in the West.  But those Islamists of the MB have been cowardly in dealing with Mubarak from the get go.  They have absolutely no role whatsoever in what is happening.  They have made themselves irrelevant and for that I am glad.  None of the slogans in Egypt are Islamist or Islamic in nature.  The activists are mostly young and educated and generally progressive from lower and middle class backgrounds.  Some are some of the people that I have communicated with about events in Egypt in the last few years.  And Twitter and Facebook have been greatly utilized by them.  One of the great activists in Egypt has a graduate degree in internet media and he is putting his skills to a great use.  Salutation comrades.