What started as a revolution in the eighteenth-century meaning of the term is becoming a reproduction of the religious wars that ravaged Europe from 1524 to 1648, pitting Catholics and Protestants against each other in the same way that Sunnis and Shia are pitted against each other today. (In Egypt, however, we are seeing simply the return of a military police state.)
但面对当前形势可能会有完全不同的解释。18世纪开始的一场革命正演变为1524年到1648年曾肆虐欧洲的宗教战争的翻版，导致天主教和新教教徒陷入对立，颇有些今天逊尼派和什叶派对立的味道。（但我们只是看到埃及回归军警政府）。