Tuesday, July 2, 2013

Morsi Must Go

Mohammed Morsi was elected by the Egyptian people with a mandate to improve the economy and run the country better than his predecessor, Hosni Mubarak. Unfortunately, Morsi has become an embodiment of "Meet the new boss, same as the old boss". Instead of running a secular democracy, Morsi and the Muslim Brotherhood swept in a new constitution that enshrines Sharia law as the law of Egypt. His power grabs, stifling of the free press and various outrages have only made it worse.

Not only that, with unemployment at 13% in Egypt, he's done nothing to help the economy. Even if the Muslim Brotherhood did help bring Mubarak down, their corruption makes me think they only latched on to the popular uprising in 2011 to get into power. Now it's clear that they made a miscalculation. 

If Morsi knows what's best, he must step down as President of Egypt, and the Muslim Brotherhood should disband. It's clear that Islamist and even religious government have no place in modern society either in the Middle East or anywhere around the world. Right now the world has to wait and watch to see what will happen to Morsi's government.

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