Why Morsi's unseating can neither be condoned nor condemned
8 July 2013
<p>The unseating of former President Morsi is as difficult to condemn as
it is to condone. It is a paradox with no easy resolution. An elected
president was unseated by extra-legal means; yet on the other hand the
current Egyptian constitution, which he rushed through, also by
extra-legal means, provides no workable way of removing a dangerously
incompetent and increasingly isolated man. Democracy would normally
demand that we wait for the next election to vote him out; yet on the
other hand the Muslim Brotherhood was moving rapidly to alter the
election law to make it impossible to challenge them at the polls and to
gut the judiciary to remove any semblance of a rule of law. Read the full article here: