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How Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood Will Win

(Foreign Policy) Shadi Hamid - The "good guys," whoever they are, don't always win. Indeed, if Islamist parties in Egypt do well - winning upwards of 50% of the vote - the alarmism and hand-wringing from Western quarters will be considerable. The important metric for Egypt's troubled transition, though, is if Egyptians have the opportunity to choose their own representatives free of intimidation and interference. Democracy, as Western democracies have long known, is about the right to make the wrong choice. The writer is director of research at the Brookings Doha Center and a fellow at the Saban Center for Middle East Policy at the Brookings Institution.
2011-11-04 00:00:00
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