Rania Rifaat is the ultimate secular-oriented, social media-using, Egyptian “Arab Spring” activist. During a recent demonstration in Tahrir Square she complained:Continue reading The Ultimate “Arab Spring” Quote
“We, the youth, did the revolution. We didn’t say that it should be Islamic or whatever. And people felt good. They felt relaxed here. And then suddenly these Islamic liars came, and they want us to go back 300 years.”
Good so far, right? Sounds just like Western counterparts. But there’s more. How did she characterize the Islamists?
“They are like the Jews—-they always break their promises.”
Barry Rubin is director of the Global Research in International Affairs (GLORIA) Center and editor of the Middle East Review of International Affairs (MERIA) Journal. His latest books are The Israel-Arab Reader
(seventh edition), The Long War for Freedom: The Arab Struggle for Democracy in the Middle East
(Wiley), and The Truth About Syria
(Palgrave-Macmillan). His latest book is Israel: An Introduction, to be published by Yale University Press in January 2012. You can read more of Barry Rubin's posts at Rubin Reports, and now on his new blog, Rubin Reports, on Pajamas MediaTechnorati Tag: Egypt and Arab Spring.
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