How Not to Write About the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt

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In a ludicrously alarmist piece that appeared on the The Daily Beast, "Egypt's Simmering Rage" Douglas Schoen and Randall Lane assert that "clearly and unambiguously" the political climate in Egypt is moving in a new direction that is "inimical to American and allied interests."They make this stunning accusation, that is likely to garner the undeserved attention of too many U.S. policy makers, on the basis of flimsy polling evidence, and they further slant their shoddy analysis with a misleading characterization of the military's role in Egypt as protecting democracy "from the Islamists."More...