Saturday, December 1, 2012

A look at Iran’s 1979 revolution and Egypt’s turmoil

By Joseph Mayton
Bikya Masr

"CAIRO: Egypt is a country currently split politically and socially. The chasm is massive and it is hard to see any solution to the ongoing impasse that has seen thousands of liberal and secular Egyptians take to Tahrir Square demanding President Mohamed Morsi rescind his presidential declaration that gave him sweeping powers. On the other side, there are the ultra-conservative Salafists and the conservative Muslim Brotherhood touting their president as the symbol of a revolution they largely did not take part in.

With a draft constitution officially delivered to the president on Saturday, full of Islamic law and a lack of clauses that guarantee women’s rights and ostensibly retracts all the gains of the uprising that ousted Hosni Mubarak. In many ways, what we are witnessing is very similar to the Iranian Revolution of 1979.

Maybe Iranians are watching the current political unrest in Egypt and saying, “see, told you this would happen.” Maybe Egypt will not fall into the ultra-conservative nature that has come to represent Iran, but right now, Iran’s modern history is as important as it has always been as Egypt looks for a future......"

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