FINANCIAL TIMES: …But beyond protests, there is little sign that the Brotherhood’s leadership have thought through their next steps as the new political process, backed by the army, secular politicians, and a large section of the population, gains momentum with the installation of a new interim president and a government. Mr Haddad said his group had rebuffed numerous mediation attempts by western diplomats and others telling them to “suck it up” because the army “has bigger muscle”.
With no plans for negotiations and Mr Morsi detained, so far without charges, Egypt’s largest grassroots political organisation appears to have been momentarily sidelined, though both analysts and some secular leaders insist it should be part of any emerging order if Egypt is to have stable government.
Participation in any political process now would mean the Brotherhood would have to relinquish its “legitimacy claim” arising from the military’s ouster of a democratically elected president, said Shadi Hamid, analyst at Brookings Doha Center… (more)
