Revolt in Egypt Marks the End of America’s Illusions About Arab Democracy

Obama is still stumping for the Muslim Brotherhood:

Obama Call for Muslim Brotherhood Role Overtaken in Egypt begging the military to avoid :arbitary arrests” of Morsi or Muslim Brotherhood leaders.

While President Barack Obama’s administration has stopped short of condemning the July 3 military takeover, it has called on Egyptian leaders to pursue “a transparent political process that is inclusive of all parties and groups,” including “avoiding any arbitrary arrests of Mursi and his supporters,” Bernadette Meehan, a spokeswoman for the National Security Council, said yesterday in a statement.

The administration has urged the Egyptian military to stop using heavy-handed tactics, according to two U.S. officials who asked not to be identified commenting on the private communications. They said the administration is concerned that some in the military may want to provoke the Islamists to violence and provide a rationale for crushing the movement once and for all.

Not surprisingly this Bloomberg article is supportive of the Obama administration’s position, even going so far as to state this:

While the Brotherhood hasn’t used violence in a long while, Dunne said in an interview, “some of their allies — Salafi or jihadi groups — could turn to violence” more readily, she said.

Coptic Christians would no doubt have a completely different outlook on such a disingenuous assertion by the article’s writers. The Brotherhood’s action belie this false narrative of how nonviolent the movement is.

Associated Press:

Enraged Islamists pushed back against the toppling of President Mohammed Morsi, as tens of thousands of his supporters marched in Cairo on Friday to demand his reinstatement and attacked his opponents. Nighttime clashes raged with stone-throwing, firecrackers and gunfire, and military armored vehicles raced across a Nile River bridge in a counterassault on Morsi’s supporters.

Mayhem nationwide left at least 10 people dead and 210 wounded as Morsi supporters stormed government buildings, vowing to reverse the military’s removal of the country’s first freely elected president. Among the dead were four killed when troops opened fire on a peaceful march by Islamists on the Republican Guard headquarters….

…Extremist Islamist groups that gained considerable freedom to operate during Morsi’s year in office have already vowed violence in retaliation.

The first major Islamic militant attack came before dawn Friday in the tumultuous Sinai Peninsula, killing at least one soldier. Masked assailants launched a coordinated attack with rockets, rocket-propelled grenades and anti-aircraft guns on the airport in the northern Sinai city of el-Arish, where military aircraft are located, as well as a security forces camp in Rafah on the border with Gaza and five other military and police posts, sparking nearly four hours of clashes.

Oh, wait. “Islam is a religion of peace.” Obama will most likely blame this on an Egyptian TEA Party group.

Many held copies of the Quran in the air, and much of the crowd had the long beards of ultraconservative men or encompassing black robes and veils worn by women, leaving only the eyes visible. One protester shouted that the sheik of Al-Azhar – Egypt’s top Muslim cleric who backed the military’s move – was “an agent of the Christians” – reflecting a sentiment that the Christian minority was behind Morsi’s ouster.

In southern Egypt, Islamists attacked the main church in the city of Qena on Friday. In the town of Dabaiya near the city of Luxor, a mob torched houses of Christians, sending dozens of Christians seeking shelter in a police station. Clashes broke out Friday in at least two cities in the Nile Delta between pro- and anti-Morsi demonstrators.

So what was a bloodless coop, now results in wounded and fatalities as the fanaticism of the Muslim Brotherhood strikes back against peaceful overthrow of the oppressive Islamisist Morsi regime.