Crushing the Brotherhood

Egyptian authorities are clearing the Muslim Brotherhood from the areas of Cairo the Islamists have occupied to protest the country’s liberation from their misrule.

It’s predictable that the result will be horrific images and narratives of the killed and wounded – losses that will, inevitably, be replicated across Egypt. After all, in previous confrontations with the security forces, the Brotherhood reportedly shot some of their own in order to create victims and martyrs for the cause, and undermine support for the new interim regime.

The Islamists are counting on friends in the Obama administration and Republican Senators John McCain and Lindsey Graham to seize upon this violence to save the Muslim Brotherhood. As the Brothers’ stated mission is to “destroy Western civilization from within,” we should do nothing of the sort.