By Barry Rubin
Rania Rifaat is the ultimate secular-oriented, social media-using, Egyptian "Arab Spring" activist. During a recent demonstration in Tahrir Square she complained:
"We, the youth, did the revolution. We didn't say that it should be Islamic or whatever. And people felt good. They felt relaxed here. And then suddenly these Islamic liars came, and they want us to go back 300 years."
Good so far, right? Sounds just like Western counterparts. But there's more. How did she characterize the Islamists?
"They are like the Jews—-they always break their promises."
Read it all:
http://pajamasmedia.com/barryrubin/2011/07/31/the-ultimate-arab-spring-quote/
Sunday, July 31, 2011
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