Perceptions of counter-revolution in Egypt

From CNN this afternoon:

“These sentiments are reflected in the 2011 Arab Public Opinion Poll, conducted by University of Maryland professor Shibley Telhami and released Monday. Some 21% of respondents believe that Egypt’s military rulers are working to advance the gains of the revolution, while double that figure — 43% — say they are trying to slow or reverse the gains [my emphasis]. The survey of 750 Egyptians, conducted between October 22 and 30, has a margin of error of 3.7%.”

“People here feel that they have been cheated and that they have moved from an autocracy to a military dictatorship,” protester Mosa’ab Elshamy said. “So they are back to the square — back to square one — to ask for their rights once again.”

On the streets of Cairo, some protesters have gone further — shouting that they believe Mubarak is running the military council and, in fact, the entire country from prison.

About jackgoldstone

Hazel Professor of Public Policy at George Mason University
This entry was posted in The Middle East Revolts. Bookmark the permalink.

Leave a Reply

Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:

WordPress.com Logo

You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. Log Out /  Change )

Facebook photo

You are commenting using your Facebook account. Log Out /  Change )

Connecting to %s