The New Pharaoh

This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute. Yesterday’s massive demonstrations in Cairo’s Tahrir Square offer one of the most hopeful signs since the so-called Arab Spring morphed into an Islamist Winter. Hundreds of thousands of Egyptians turned out to oppose the Muslim Brotherhood’s accelerating efforts to subject their country to brutally repressive shariah law. These protests were triggered by the announcement last week of what amounts to a coup d’etat by Mohamed Morsi, the former Brotherhood leader who was narrowly elected Egypt’s president last summer. Morsi declared that he, and he alone, would rule his country, prompting some to call him a “new pharaoh.” The Obama administration – which bears no small responsibility for enabling the Muslim Brotherhood to come to power in Egypt – must forcefully repudiate Morsi’s coup. And every American should stand with those Egyptians courageously opposing it. This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute. Learn more at SecureFreedomRadio.com.