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Article: Are you sure you want a democracy? Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood does.(World)
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- The American Conservative
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- December 3, 2007
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CAIRO -- "We haven't yet established a Jeffersonian democracy in Egypt," Dr. Mohamed Kamal patiently explained to the journalists questioning his country's recent record of police brutality, political repression, and jailing of journalists for criticizing the president and the National Democratic Party.
His answer was calibrated to assure the pushy Westerners that such a transformation cannot be completed overnight and that America ought to be careful what it wishes for in Egypt. He reminded us that Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has a partner in calling for democratization: the Muslim Brotherhood, Egypt's powerful pro-Sharia Islamic radicals.
Kamal ...