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Arab Spring and Sisi

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In Egypt and Algeria, middle-class protesters demanded democracy, but when Muslim fundamentalists won elections, they begrudgingly accepted military takeovers (like Sisi) to stop them.

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“the very middle class educated circles... begrudgingly accepted new military takeover to get rid of the fundamentalists”
“we were able... it was true Kantian universality—we in a way immediately knew what it is about. It's a struggle for dignity, freedom”

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In Egypt and Algeria, middle-class protesters demanded democracy, but when Muslim fundamentalists won elections, they begrudgingly accepted military takeovers (like Sisi) to stop them., illustrating democracy
In Algeria and Egypt, educated young people organized vast demonstrations for freedom, won free elections, but Muslim fundamentalists won, and the original protesters grudgingly accepted military rule as better., illustrating freedom as inconsistent terrain,democracy as obstacle
The Egyptian revolution demonstrated that Arab masses could mobilize for universal ideals of freedom and dignity intelligible to everyone without multicultural mediation, evidence against the prejudice that they can only act on religion or nationalism., illustrating universality in emancipatory struggle,limits of multiculturalism,Arab Spring