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    The document discusses the protests in Egypt and the double standards exhibited by some in the Pakistani media and religious parties in their response. It makes the following key points: 1) Commentaries in support of the Muslim Brotherhood have overlooked facts like Morsi winning the election by a small margin and acting in an authoritarian manner. 2) Religious parties in Pakistan that support dictatorships were protesting against the Egyptian military but have remained silent about atrocities at home. 3) By focusing so much on Western involvement and ignoring violence against minorities and other Muslims, these groups demonstrate hypocrisy and double standards in their views.

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    The document discusses the protests in Egypt and the double standards exhibited by some in the Pakistani media and religious parties in their response. It makes the following key points: 1) Commentaries in support of the Muslim Brotherhood have overlooked facts like Morsi winning the election by a small margin and acting in an authoritarian manner. 2) Religious parties in Pakistan that support dictatorships were protesting against the Egyptian military but have remained silent about atrocities at home. 3) By focusing so much on Western involvement and ignoring violence against minorities and other Muslims, these groups demonstrate hypocrisy and double standards in their views.

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    Egypt Protests Exposing our Double Standards

    Farooq Yousaf on 4, Sep 2013

    In recent weeks, the Pakistani media has published various commentarieswritten on Egyptian crisis in support of Muslim Brotherhood(MB), highlighting the atrocities going on in Egypt committed by the army allegedly with the support of the West. With due respect to all these authors, supporting the Muslim Brotherhood and bashing the west, their analyses reminded of a famous quote by Gerlad Celente, an American trend forecaster, where he claimed that, Im a political atheist: I dont believe in political religions nor do I bow to political gods. For readers, or American his followers, the quote may carry many meanings, but, in short, it sends a simple message: Politics and religion dont mix. Egypt is indeed going through a severe crisis and conflict, where both official and unofficial sources have confirmed deaths of scores of Egyptians which is indeed condemnable and unacceptable. But is it wise to start playing the Muslim or Western Conspiracy card at this time, undermining the hundreds of thousands who protested for the ousting of Morsi? First of all, let us analyse some facts:

    The Muslim Brotherhood won the elections by a slight margin of 51.7% to 48.3% in the final stage, where as only bagging 25% of the total votes in the first phase. Morsi was contesting against an exregime contestant, which gave him the edge of being a new candidate. Thus, the theory floated in these analyses of him being a widely popular leader, and the MB a widely popular party, isnt completely true.

    The United States was the first major supporter of Morsis government giving the Muslim Brotherhood its full backing and approving financial aidfor the country, so the West supported the MB.

    Those who are treating as a complete Islamic State fail realise that the country has a greater influence of secularism compared many Muslim countries. Egypts long term fruitful ties with Israel are a good example of that.

    Morsi, against the peoples expectations, started acting in the same dictatorial manner as Mubarak and passed a decree that put him above the law. This was one of the many reasons his own voters turned against him.

    More than 47 Churches have been burnt, destroyed, or looted during the conflict, making the Co-opts as equal victims, and for sure, the attackers werent non-Muslims from the West. And thus the Muslims are not the lone victims.

    Never would this article, through any reason, support dictatorships in any situation but the aforementioned instances would help in setting the facts straight to help understand as to why the second uprising in Egypt occurred resulting in chaos. Amid all these developments, the protests arranged by religious parties in many Muslims countries, especially Pakistan, for Morsi, MB and democracy and against the Egyptian military and the West, are also worth mentioning . Such demonstrations coming from parties, such as Jamaat e Islami and Jamiat e Ulema e Islam, which have remained avid supporters of dictatorships in the past is somehow baffling. A further saddening fact is when in Pakistan or other Muslim states, the common people including minorities or people from other sects are killed by militants, none of these parties come forward to protest against the known culprits. On the other hand, such parties have also shied away from condemning the Saudi Arabia and United Arab Emirates who have announced their support for the Egyptian dictatorship, coupled with announcing multi-billion dollar aid packages. Its good to protest against the massacre going on in another country, especially when the victims are considered as our own Muslim brothers. Whats wrong in such protests is the discrepancy and the double standards resulting in ignorance of atrocities occurring at home. Why cant the same people protest in the same manner when our Shia brothers and sisters are bombed and assassinated on the name of religion? Why cant we be equally vocal and come forward for the Christians, and other non Muslims whose places of worship are burnt on allegations of Blasphemy? Why do we, on these instances, forget to use the Islamic narrative and dont mention the letter written by the Prophet Muhammad to the Christian Monks at Mt. Sinai, assuring them security of their Cathedrals? And why, above all, do we forget the fact that more than the west, its us, the prime elements of conspiracies against our own selves? The West may have different standards for Democracy when it comes to Muslims, but as Muslims do we have the same standards for humanity and human lives? For that purpose, let us leave the Egyptian uprising as a normal political process, that they would go through, and thus would need our lecturing on whether to allow a dictator or not? Its their country, they would manage, let us focus on our own, and set our own house in order first.

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