IRAN RISES

Readers of this blog are invited to visit the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood’s website. If you look at its articles on current events in Iran, you will see that the Brotherhood is using Iran as an example of how an Islamic movement can rise up against a government which is falsely advertising itself as Islamic. This, the polemic goes, shows that Islam is not inherently anti-democratic.

I am no admirer of the Ikhwan. I still believe that a victory for them would seal the Coptic minority’s and women’s status as second-class citizens and would be a huge set-back for Egyptian intellectual life. But I came away from their website favorably impressed. The writing is clear, I did not notice it sourcing crackpots, but mainstream writers, including many Jewish and even moderately pro-Israel writers.