A Muslim Brotherhood leadership would be the opposite of freedom

Janey Daley:

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... if the deposing of a totalitarian ruler is not to mean merely his replacement after one election by another form of totalitarianism (such as theocracy), then Egypt – and any other countries that follow in the new Arabic “wave of democratisation” – is going to need a lot of help and guidance. A spokesman for the Muslim Brotherhood asked on the Today programme last week why, if the people voted in an election for an Islamic government, that should not be accepted (by the West). This is why: a commitment to constitutional democracy must mean that you cannot vote to dismantle it. The rights to those essential freedoms which we are all finally agreed must be “natural” cannot be taken away, even by a majority vote. They are inalienable. That is the moral force of the Enlightenment philosophy from which they derive: that without such freedoms, we are less than human.

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That is something that Barack Obama and others better start saying now. He may not immediately get it. He has only recently become a neocon supporting democracy and a freedom agenda. If he does not get this, then Egypt will become an Iran like hell on earth.