Democracia norteafricana (II)

Más datos sobre la realidad en Egipto (cada día más preocupante) que no es precisamente, como ya señalé aquí, la que pintan las teles españolas:

The Islamists, furthermore, are well funded and organized. The most established fundamentalist group, the Muslim Brotherhood, has years of experience in contesting elections.

Liberals and leftists, including the youth activists who led the protest uprising against Mubarak, are caught between their stance that all sides must be allowed to enter the political game if Egypt is to be a real democracy and worries whether Islamists will play by the rules…

«I am worried most about the Salafis because they are not accustomed to politics,» said activist, Mustafa al-Nagar, who campaigns for Mohamed ElBaradei, a Nobel Peace laureate and potential candidate in presidential elections due in November. «Their main concern is to exclude anyone else.»

While the Brotherhood has long been Egypt’s best organized opposition movement, the Salafis are a new player in politics. Salafis are ultraconservatives, close to Saudi Arabia’s Wahhabi interpretation of Islam and more radical than the Brotherhood. They seek to emulate the austerity of Islam’s early days and oppose a wide range of practices they view as «un-Islamic» — rejecting the treatment of non-Muslims as citizens with equal rights as well as all forms of Western cultural influence.

Por si ya no tuvieran bastante con los fundamentalistas de la Hermandad Musulmana, los salafistas también van a participar en las elecciones, con un programa muy democrático: rechazando el tratamiento de los no-musulmanes como ciudadanos con iguales derechos y rechazando cualquier forma de influencia cultural occidental. ¿Alguna crítica a este sin sentido por parte de nuestros augustos políticos?

Relacionado: Geopolitical Implications of Islamist Attacks on Christians in Egypt. Aunque fue escrito antes de la revolución que ha terminado con el derrocamiento de Mubarak, es importante leerlo porque señalaba ya las consecuencias tan nefastas que puede tener para la región y para el resto del mundo un Egipto islamista.