By Micah Halpern
I've Been Thinking:
Observers of Egyptian society have been narrowly focusing on the Muslim Brotherhood and the threat that the Brotherhood poses to liberal ideals and reforms and democracy.
But serious threats also come from secular movements within Egypt.
In a recent interview with the Washington Times, Ahmed Ezz al Arab, number two in the large and very secular Wafd Party, gave a detailed description of how 9-11 was a hoax.
Al Arab also went to great lengths to explain how the Holocaust could never have happened, that it was physically impossible for it to have occurred. Certainly Nazis killed Jews, he allowed, but not millions of Jews.
And finally, he announced that Anne Frank's diary is a complete fabrication. Al Arab said that the girl may have existed but the story and the memoir did not. He remembers, he said, being a PhD student in Stockholm when he first came to that conclusion.
These are the thoughts of the Western educated secular leadership of Egypt. There is no need to say anything more about how Egypt is going to liberalize.
Micah@MicahHalpern.com
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