Of people and clerics

Egypt has a new (interim) president. Good.
Good riddance of those two-faced Islamic Jesuits who ruled the country for more than a year!
Their legacy: disenchantment and alienation from all major segments of the population.
It is a good thing that the opposition managed to overthrow the Islamists before they had the time to completely stifle dissent and enslave the entire country.

Most politicians are demagogues… that is the only way they can get elected.
Always talking out of both sides of their mouths… telling people what they long to hear.
They will advocate different agendas when addressing different audiences.
Soothing when talking to Jews, rabidly anti-Semitic when talking to Muslims, enthusiastically Buddhist when addressing Buddha’s devotees, etc.
Politicians let’s face it, are nothing but a whoring lot!

Mohamed Morsi was no exception. Sounding conciliatory when talking to some and rabidly intolerant when talking to others.
And one more time, as it is common in Muslim countries, Morsi had religion infringe on the life of its people.
Religion’s motto is and has always been: If you are not with us, you are against us, and if you are against us you don’t deserve to live!
What kind of insanity is this?

But we might have seen the dawn of a new era in Egypt where common sense is finally starting to prevail over religion.
Young men and young women are rebelling against backward traditions and calling for secularism and fairness in government.
No more arbitrary fatwas by out-of-touch clerics!

Any kind of dictatorship (religious or otherwise) will eventually fail, and when this happens the end is often gruesome (see Mussolini, Ceausescu, Khadafi or Saddam Hussein).

But revolutions can be notoriously fickle and unpredictable and nobody knows how it will end.
In order to prevail, the Egyptian “Bolsheviks” (“majority”) need to be fair and pragmatic, but it is always difficult for the victors to be moderate.

The Muslim Brothers had their chance. They blew it.
Time to go! Period!

May Egyptians never let any “pious” bigots ever rule their country again, and may they finally enjoy the proven virtues of secularism.

Amen!

Alain