Video clips II: Egyptian roulette and the Apocalypse

Charles Cameron:

June 17th, 2012 at 5:42 pm

As an addendum to that final point I made concerning “other influences, some of them both powerful and entrenched, which will themselves tend to divert, moderate, arouse or inflame the situation“, here’s a quote from Hassan Malik’s piece, Can Egypt’s Economy Turn the Corner? in the Daily Beast today, leaning in the direction of powerful moderating influences on the MB:

The Brotherhood draws significant support from property-owning professionals and businessmen, and is sensitive to their needs. Indeed, the group’s first-choice candidate, Khairat el-Shater, is a multimillionaire businessman who was disqualified at the last minute on a legal technicality, and the party has also taken on internationally respected development economist Hernando de Soto as an adviser on economic reforms. All of this suggests that the Brotherhood is more interested in Turkish-style pious capitalism along the lines promoted by the AK Party than in the Muslim theocracy peddled by the Taliban.

De Soto’s an interesting choice, eh?