What Kirkpatrich fails to report is that these individuals -though secular in thinking- were operating with and for the Muslim Brotherhood. That’s precisely an evidence that Egypt’s authorities are not going systematically after any person who is Islamist in thought. Many conservative Islamists were and are opposed to the Ikhwan. But those who have engaged in supporting the Muslim Brotherhood killing machine, should they be Islamist, liberal, Christian, or atheists, are now questioned by the Government. Hence the NYT time argument -that non Islamists- are questioned, if anything proves that actions by the Government are not systematic, but aimed at the Ikhwan machine.
The Brotherhood had penetrated deep in Egypt’s society and Government. They had bought journalists, seculars, right wing and left wing operatives. In fact Egypt will be exposing to the world, how non-Islamists have collaborated with the Jihadists and violent Islamists. So lesson to who should hear in the West. But what Egypt should seek is justice, and justice only.
If its authorities are making any mistake, it will be exposed, no question about. But the NYT attack is not about “mistakes.” It is part of a campaign to discredit a post Ikhwan Government dismantling the Islamist network. Note that Egyptian liberals, seculars, artists, progressits and intellectuals who are not necessarily fond of America are the ones exposing the Islamist apologists and calling for these investigations. The New York Times finds itself strangely in bed with the Islamist machine against the liberal circles of Egypt.
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