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...example, Egyptian security forces arrested 16 members of the Muslim Brotherhood, Egypt's most popular opposition group. Those arrested included three senior members, including the deputy leader, Mahmoud Ezzat. More than 30 others had been arrested in the two weeks prior to that. "They were arrested having done nothing except calling for reform and freedom and for adopting a moderate approach which Egypt needs the most at this time," read a statement posted on the Muslim Brotherhood website on Feb. 9. (See pictures of the soft revolution of the women of Cairo...
...government crackdown appears to have been triggered by the Brotherhood's own selection of more conservative leaders who have offered their fellow members a more conciliatory approach toward the regime. Joshua Stacher, a political scientist and Egypt expert at Kent State University, says the move likely served to signal that regardless of who leads the group, the government will continue to beat it down. The government, says Stacher, does "not want them participating in legislative elections or syndicate elections or generally," and it would rather see the Brotherhood "withdraw." "They would ideally like the same thing from the Brotherhood that...
...large Brotherhood win were induced, at least in some part, by pressure from the Bush Administration - a policy that many say strained relations between the two countries. The new U.S. Administration is playing its cards differently. "I think it's indisputable that there was significant domestic pressure inside of Egypt [in 2005], and that the United States under the Bush Administration, and Europe, both sort of supported those demands in Egypt for freer and fairer elections - and that had an impact," says Michele Dunne, editor of the Arab Reform Bulletin at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. The first round...
...Egypt ranks low on the Obama Administration's list of regional priorities. The war in Iraq, the Arab-Israeli peace process and a growing al-Qaeda threat in Yemen are all outranking concerns. And the Administration has also sought to distance itself from some of the more aggressive policies of its predecessor, which Dunne says damaged bilateral relations with important allies like Egypt. "But I don't think they realize that there is real, observable backward movement when it comes to democratization and human rights in Egypt right now," she says. "And I think that the Obama Administration is going...