22 / 02 / 2012
Egypt NGOs promoting the wrong type of democracy?
" 'When I use a word,' Humpty Dumpty told Alice, 'it means just what I choose it to mean - neither more nor less.' Egypt’s political discourse is acquiring something of an Alice in Wonderland quality, but the reaction to the prosecution of civil society groups by the ruling military and other Mubarak loyalists is at least helping to clarify precisely what different parties mean by democracy. While the Muslim Brotherhood’s Spiritual Guide stresses the group’s commitment to democracy, pluralism and civil society, the Islamists’ endorsement of the crackdown on pro-democracy NGOs shows that it has trouble being “tolerant of any (...)" Read more