Alex Massie Alex Massie

I Love My Country, It’s the Government I Am Afraid Of

Perhaps Glenn Beck can ask this girl, interviewed in Tahrir Square, if she is just a stooge of the Muslim Brotherhood. Perhaps the “Realists” can ask her that too.

Hopey-changey bullshit? Well, maybe. Perhaps the young and the liberal and the educated will receive a desperate, chilling awakening. But this is not set in stone. Plainly this girl does not speak for all Egyptians (and I’d like to know more about what Egyptians living outside the major cities think) but let’s not pretend either that this is a bogus or astroturf uprising. It’s real and its demands are real too. Fear the worst all you like, but these people deserve whatever support we can offer them. 

PS: I kinda want one of those t-shirts. Also, make sure you stick around to see the anti-Mubarak cat at the end.

[Via Andrew]

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