Secular, military, and Mubarak-era foes of the Muslim Brotherhood have used every lever at their disposal, democratic or not, to block the Islamist parties’ democratic exercise of power. This is consistent with a decades-old pattern in Egyptian history, in which the Brothers – and Islamist political forces in general – were outlawed, and their members imprisoned, tortured, and exiled.
世俗观点——穆尔西的权力欲破坏了萌芽期的埃及民主——根本站不住脚。穆斯林兄弟会的世俗、军事和穆巴拉克时期反对者用尽一切方法——民主的和不民主的——阻挠其民主权力实践。这与埃及几十年来的历史惯例一致——作为穆斯林兄弟会和伊斯兰政治力量得不到合法地位，它们的成员被关押、严刑拷打和流放。