Sunday, July 14, 2013

Western academics and the coup

I mean, it is understandable that Western academics would support the coup in Egypt: how many of them have friends among the bearded or veiled Ikhwan masses?  Most of their friends and contacts and translators are from the ranks of the secular middle and upper classes who wanted to bring down the Ikhwan even if through a coup and even if through an alliance with the fulul.