Elections without liberty do not constitute genuine democracy, and here Egypt faces a serious challenge: its best-organized group, the Muslim Brotherhood, rejects religious liberty and individual rights, especially the rights of women. The Brotherhood’s offshoot, the Palestinian movement Hamas, has established in the Gaza Strip a brutal, intolerant dictatorship.
没有自由的选举并不能构成真正的民主，因此埃及也面临着一个严重的挑战：其国内组织最严密的社团——穆斯林兄弟会——反对宗教自由和个人权利，尤其是妇女权利。该组织在巴勒斯坦的分支哈马斯已经在加沙地区建立起了一个残酷而狭隘的专制政府。