One of the major ongoing debates involving Egypt these days is about the real meaning and consequences of the armed forces’ ousting of the elected government of President Mohammad Morsi three months ago, and the subsequent banning and arrests of the Muslim Brotherhood organization. This is an important debate that goes to the heart of the political realities that millions of Arabs have been struggling, sometimes dying, to define in the past nearly three years of uprisings: namely, whether public power and state authority will reflect the will of the majority and the consent of the governed, or instead will continue to be shaped and wielded by small handfuls of men with guns.
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