Answer – The Democratic Military Coup in Egypt which knocked out democratically elected President Mohammed Morsi.
With thousands upon thousands in Cairo’s Tahrir Square protesting the Morsi Government, the military acted to take him out.
This is indeed good news.
How so?
When Morsi was elected, I along with many others predicted that he was merely a front for the Muslim Brotherhood and he would use his time as President to entrench Muslim Rule on all of Egypt.
As if to script – that is exactly what he did but this did not go down well with moderate Muslims and non-Muslims alike. They were not going to let their hard fought efforts to secure democracy for Egypt die so easily.
And the military … to its credit, sided with the just and pure.
One could and quite rightly raise the concern that the military will just once again install one of its generals at the helm, as it did in the case of Morsi’s predecessor Hosni Mubarak. But I don’t think this is in the cards.
There is a genuine well spring of support in Egypt and I believe the Arab Spring is truly coming to fruition.
As far as Arabia goes, Egypt is the linch pin. It is by far the most populated and influential and if it can settle on the road to freedom, there is indeed hope for the rest.
We will keep our fingers crossed but this is the best news to come out of the Middle East in years.
As I see it…
‘K. D. Galagher’
