FINANCIAL TIMES: …Arab despotism was good at manufacturing Islamists. But that did not mean the Islamists would be any good at governing.
Mr Morsi, for example, while democratically elected, failed to behave like a democrat. His abortive constitutional coup last autumn – attempting to place his government above the judiciary – and his growing intolerance of criticism and attempts to pack Egypt’s institutions with his followers, alienated all but hardcore Islamists.
Unable to meet the needs of ordinary Egyptians for jobs and security, electricity and services, he was accountable to the Brotherhood but not citizens of the republic…
Even foreign governments and international institutions were dealing with Khairat al-Shater, deputy supreme guide of the Brotherhood, which in its paranoid secretiveness ran a parallel government… (more)
