[Skybird]

Oberon, the Arab Anti-Spring already started long before. Wherever, the Spring broke out, it ended with the fundamentalists claiming power and starting to erode the democratic principles that brought them there to establish a Shariah-based regime. They try it in Tunisia. In Libya. In Syria. In Egypt. Egypt is not the beginning of that Anti-Spring. It's just the latest spring-breaker turning into winter. Without the fundamentalists abusing their power over the past year, the military would not be on the streets today.

A fundamentalist regime is no expression of a functional democracy - it is the end of democracy. Fundamentalism, and democracy and humanism cannot go together. They are mutually exclusive.