Demoting Democracy in Egypt

Shadi Hamid writes that the fall of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt will have profound implications for the future of political Islam, and will reverberate across the Middle East in potentially dangerous ways. While Islamist parties have recently shifted to embrace democracy, the developments in Egypt may drive Islamic youth back toward extremism. At the same time, many are asking what role the U.S. and Western powers might have played in the Brotherhood’s fall.