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badgenome said:
Mr Khan said:

that their time shall come as demographics switch in their favor

I can't say I'm at all surprised. Polls had showed for a long time that most Egyptians wanted more religion in their government, not less. Most people could agree that Mubarak had to go, but that was all they could agree on. The secularists never had a chance for anything other than living under the thumb of the Muslim Brotherhood. It's funny to look back and think about all the smarty pants who insisted at the time that the Brotherhood had no political aspirations.

But what did you mean here? Is there evidence of Egypt actually trending more secular demographically, or were you just making an inevitablist assumption that younger Egyptians will eventually want a more secular nation? My gut feeling is that demographics will favor the Islamists who treat women like little more than walking wombs over the liberals, but I don't really know.

Inevitabilist assumption. It just might take a while, but if you study democratization, this unpleasant phase (tyranny of the masses) is one that can certainly swing into place, though much of that depends on the specifics of how you democratize (namely how the old regime is thrust from power and the framework under which a new government builds itself)

Although the whole thing can be fixed if they just have a series of votes leading to a new parliament and a new constitution, with the setup being that they would need more than just the Islamists to approve the constitution.



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