Another leading Muslim Brotherhood figure, Mohammed al-Beltagi, was arrested last Thursday by the Egyptian military. That was no surprise because al-Beltagi had appeared virtually every day at the Rabaa al-Adawiyah camp in Cairo giving speeches which called for violence against the Egyptian military as well as against the many enemies of the Muslim Brotherhood. Mr. Beltagi himself is the secretary-general of the Brotherhood's Freedom and Justice Party (FJP). The Egyptian military has said that they have arrested other Muslim Brotherhood leaders because they too were inciting violence. That's no surprise either because this Islamist group has been doing precisely that since the late 1920s. It is true that the MB was elected, though not entirely fairly and not by a large overall majority. Even before the recent disturbances in Egypt, one survey said that 71% were against the MB. And during the election itself there were many reports of forgery, ballot-rigging, violence, the blocking...(Read Full Post)