Another Day, Another Sign That The Muslim Brotherhood Is Gearing Up To Roll Egypt

The Egyptians may or may not be far enough gone to invite Nasrallah to Cairo. But some day very soon:
Egyptian police detained 26 members of the opposition Muslim Brotherhood for protesting against Israel's siege of Gaza... The Egyptian government calls the Muslim Brotherhood a banned organization, although the group operates openly and fields independent candidates in parliamentary elections. It won a fifth of the seats in 2005 parliamentary polls. Political analysts say the government wants to stop the Brotherhood from mounting a serious political challenge.
My usual line on this is that Egypt is one disgruntled general and a bullet away from being the most dangerous country on the planet. I'm not sure that it'll even take that much:
[Salafism's] doctrine is only a few shades away from that of violent groups like al-Qaida - that it effectively preaches, "Yes to jihad, just not now."... Salafism has proved highly adaptable, appealing to Egypt's wealthy businessmen, the middle class and even the urban poor — cutting across class in an otherwise rigidly hierarchical society... "We were losing our identity. Our identity is Islamic," 27-year-old Soliman said from behind an all-covering black niqab as she sat with her husband in a Maadi restaurant.
Kind of makes you miss the days when Egyptians wanted to wipe out Israel for plain old Arab nationalist reasons. On the bright side, the US has spent decades making Egypt one of the largest recipients of US military aid on the planet. So when the West goes to war with them, at least we'll know how their weapons work. At least they're not nuclearizing. Think about how much that would suck.
References:
* Lebanese paper reports Egypt will invite Nasrallah to Cairo [JPost]
* Egypt denies Nasrallah invite [YNet]
* Egypt: Muslim Brotherhood members detained over Gaza siege protests [YNet]
* Ultraconservative Islam on rise in Mideast [MSNBC]
* Egyptian Nuclearization Proceeding On Schedule [MR]
Previously:
* Egyptian Political Uproar: Should Hebrew Be Banned Or Should Some People Learn It To "Know Their Enemy"?
* Religious Freedom Sweeping Egypt - Baha'i Kind Of Allowed To Be Citizens, Attend Schools (Plus: But If You're An Ex-Muslim Apostate You're Still Hosed)
* Egypt Ignores Palestinian Outrages Against Egyptians, Prepares To Bail Out Gazans. Again. (Plus: Egypt Fanning Cartoon Jihad Flames)








