Good Riddance to Brotherhood’s Fake Democrats
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July 4 (Bloomberg) -- A few months ago, King Abdullah II ofJordan told me about his meetings with Mohamed Mursi, the now-deposed president of Egypt. The king wasn’t fond of Mursi, bothbecause the Egyptian was a leader of the Muslim Brotherhood, andbecause Abdullah found Mursi exceedingly stupid.
“I see a Muslim Brotherhood crescent developing in Egyptand Turkey,” the king said. He despises the movement, partlybecause it is revanchist, fundamentalist and totalitarian, andpartly because in Jordan it seeks his overthrow. “The ArabSpring highlighted a new crescent in the process ofdevelopment.”