July 4 (Bloomberg) -- A few months ago, King Abdullah II of
Jordan told me about his meetings with Mohamed Mursi, the now-deposed president of Egypt. The king wasn’t fond of Mursi, both
because the Egyptian was a leader of the Muslim Brotherhood, and
because Abdullah found Mursi exceedingly stupid.
“I see a Muslim Brotherhood crescent developing in Egypt
and Turkey,” the king said. He despises the movement, partly
because it is revanchist, fundamentalist and totalitarian, and
partly because in Jordan it seeks his overthrow. “The Arab
Spring highlighted a new crescent in the process of
development.”
