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hint of opposition. The revolution
enabled the Brotherhood to rally
popular support, culminating in
the elevation of Mohammed Morsi
to the presidency. But Morsi’s
popularity proved short-lived as
he granted himself sweeping powers and drafted a controversial
Islamist-dominated constitution.
“Morsi’s mixing of politics and
religion doesn’t work with me,”
says May Mohamed Kamel, a
59-year-old housewife who protested against Mubarak in the
2011 revolution. “I am religious.
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I went to Mecca. I know my religion. But if I argue with the Muslim Brotherhood, they say I’ll go
to hell.”
Today Morsi awaits trial on
charges of high treason and incitement of violence, while his
Brotherhood followers scramble
to evade the same state security
apparatus that dominated Egyptian life before the revolution. The
generals who propped up Mubarak
are again firmly in control, with
supreme leader Gen. Abdel-Fattah
el-Sissi even saying he may run
for president.
Much of the Egyptian public seems to have accepted this
Now-ousted
Egyptian
President
Mohamed
Morsi of
the Muslim
Brotherhood
arrives to
speak at
a press
conference
on June 13,
2012, in
Cairo, Egypt.