Peaceful Muslims Banned

If you want to make headlines as a Muslim, you pretty much have two choices: denounce some fundamental Islamic practice or become a terrorist. If you want to hold on to Islamic principles and be reasonable about incorporating these into society, you're asking too much. The Muslim Brotherhood, of which I am not a member (for ideological reasons), has been trying to bring Islamic principles into Egyptian politics for decades. The results are: military tribunals, imprisonment, torture, humiliation, and legal banning. A recent article in the Guardian details the latest antics of the Egyptian government.

The Egyptian government can't quite grasp the fact that they can't control people indefinitely. If you don't allow people to vent politically, they will eventually vent in other ways. For a country that underwent a revolution in 1952 and had its president assassinated in 1981, it doesn't seem to be learning very quickly.