Mohammed Badie And Khairat El-Shater, Muslim Brotherhood Leaders, Ordered To Be Arrested

[Igel]

5. Some thoughts are too dangerous to be allowed to be spread.

The only correct thing to do is to wipe them out at the source, less they corrupt the people who wouldn't know any better.

They, like all of us, need a wise ruler to protect us from things like that.

A Philosopher-King, perhaps?

It's one thing to prevent sedition (which is, by the way, the usual term for what was going on in Egypt for the last week or two) and murder. It's another thing to repress in the name of freedom and oppress in the name of liberty.

Which is, ironically, what the Ikhwan would do.

As one writer put it, "The democrats in Egypt aren't liberal and the liberals aren't democratic."