From 'Arab Spring' to 'Scorching Summer'?Will Obama keep supporting the Muslim Brotherhood? (Rubin Reports) HT: IsraelMatzav.Egypt's constitutional court has thrown out the results of elections for the country's lower house of parliament that gave Islamists 75% of the seats, and has ruled that Ahmad Shafiq, who was the country's last Prime Minister under Hosni Mubarak, may run for President. Barry Rubin predicts massive violence. The Egyptian Supreme Constitutional Court has just invalidated the parliamentary election there. The parliament, 75 percent of whose members were Islamists, is being dissolved. The military junta has taken over total authority. The presidential election is still scheduled for a few dozen hours from now. In short, everything is confused and everything is a mess. All calculations are thrown to the wind. What this appears to be is a new military coup. Yes, it is under legal cover, but nobody is going to see it as a group of judges — appointed by former President Hosni Mubarak, remember — looking deep into the law books and coming up with a carefully reasoned decision based on precedent.
This will be seen by every Islamist — whether Salafi or Muslim Brotherhood — and by most of the liberals — who feel closer to the Islamists than to the government — as if the 2011 revolution has just been reversed.
Barry believes that this entire situation caught the Obama administration off guard. – This event poses a huge problem for the Obama administration — and I’ll bet it caught them by surprise. Does the U.S. government condemn the military and put sanctions on it, demanding that the Muslim Brotherhood be put into power? There is no easy solution. But we are likely to have the strange situation of an American president fighting to put into power an anti-American, anti-Christian, anti-Semitic political force that is opposed to all U.S. interests, because — after all — they did win the election.
Reuters reports that the Brotherhood has 'accepted' the court ruling, which ruled unconstitutional a provision that denied political rights to anyone who held a senior post in government or ruling party in the last decade of Mubarak's rule. But some Muslim Brotherhood politicians are less accepting. A senior Muslim Brotherhood politician said Egypt would enter "a dark tunnel" if the Islamist-dominated parliament was dissolved. "If parliament is dissolved, the country will enter a dark tunnel - the coming president will face neither a parliament nor a constitution," Erian told Reuters by telephone. "There is a state of confusion and many questions."
The first reaction by the Obama 'Administration' has been released by
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