re: #54 BryanS

Someone earlier asked what the protesters are demanding…here’s translation excerpts of a pamphlet being passed around :

[Link: www.theatlantic.com…]

The comments to that article are interesting in that almost every one of them want the pamphlet translation taken down as it was against the wishes of the protestors to have the information published on the internet.

As for the protests themselves, the parallels to the Iranian Revolution in 1978 are far too similar in nature for my comfort level. About the only difference I see right now is that the main force behind the protests is the innocuous-sounding “Muslim Brotherhood” (who are a structured organization of fundamentalist jihadists) versus the near-dictatorial body that Khomeni and his deputy clerics ran Iran with. The current Egyptian government (like its Iranian predecesors) is pretty much a secular dictatorship with little-to-no political freedom for opposition groups.