Principle-less liberals, MB!
Liberals have double standards and so do the Muslim Brotherhood. Such a fact is easily and clearly noticeable when we review each side’s reactions to similar cases with different accused people!
When the Egyptian army deposed elected president Mohammed Morsi, the Muslim Brotherhood (MB) made a political transition to wailing and complaining sessions in the parliament, accusing the army of tyranny and dictatorship. On the other hand, the liberals described what happened as a triumph to the secular state.
Each side’s argument presented proof to justify its own views and concepts using accusations of infidelity on one side and retrograding on the other. They exchanged accusations and the verbal conflict extended into Kuwait on talk shows, newspapers and social media networks.
Three months later, when both sides are still clinging to their opinions, Sudan is now plagued with demonstrations against Al-Basheer’s regime. However, the image is reversed now with liberals, who had applauded for the army’s reaction against MB demonstrators, describing what happened as ‘a blessed public movement’ by the Sudanese people to change the regime. On the other hand, MB in both Egypt and Kuwait made no comments, not even for the sake of
Kuwait has been suffering from its politicians’ contradictions who have double standards because there are no fixed principles in politics. Those amazed at such attitudes and those criticizing both liberals and MB for adopting them, should realize that the variables are more than fixed principles in politics. The main political principle is that, in order to avoid falling, one should act according to variables, not according to principles.
saving themselves from shame! The only victims of such contradiction in both countries are simple citizens while the biggest winners are politicians, or rather the “the political elite”! This applies to all Arab countries and not only to Egypt and Sudan.
Kuwait has been suffering from its politicians’ contradictions who have double standards because there are no fixed principles in politics. Those amazed at such attitudes and those criticizing both liberals and MB for adopting them, should realize that the variables are more than fixed principles in politics. The main political principle is that, in order to avoid falling, one should act according to variables, not according to principles.
For instance, the majority of the Kuwaiti opposition took a slogan of ‘All But The Constitution’ two years ago and have, more than once, warned that violating the constitution would blow the whole democratic process in Kuwait. The very same opposition is calling for electing a Cabinet nowadays, which calls for a constitutional amendment. One shouldn’t be a genius to analyze their motives.
When they called for protecting the Constitution, they aimed at protecting democratic public gains against governmental attempts to control them. And now when calling for an elected Cabinet, they are also trying to embarrass the government because they believe that the appointed governments have been the reason for all the problems over the past two decades. This means that shifting attitudes is normal in politics. It wouldn’t be normal to find a political movement or party throughout the Arab world that has adapted fixed principles all the way. For that reason, and that reason alone, all our political attempts towards democratization are doomed to fail because neither Arab governments nor oppositions have fixed principles. That is why foreign attempts to destabilize security in any Arab country becomes easy because they make use of political contradictions to create total chaos. — Aljarida