Lalla Soueif Quotes
I will not accept that the American Government, or Amnesty, or anyone will tell me that I need to tolerate a military dictatorship in order to avoid a takeover by Islamist people. I will not accept false choices.
The historical reality was that after the military dictator was ousted as ruler of Egypt, the Islamic Brotherhood, the most organized political force then in Egypt, not only won the elections at the polls, but then started to seize total power so they would never loose future elections and then started the country on the road to an Islamic theocracy under President Morsi. After a year or so, with the great support of the majority of Egyptians, the Military took over and ousted the Islamics. So the additional choices he seeks had not been successful yet at the time this quotation was made.
Quoted in The New York Times Magazine, August 14, 2016
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Journalists and writers are among the most persecuted people in Islamic nations and even writers in non-Muslim nations have been murdered and intimidated for writing material that fundamentalist Muslims thought was heresy.
The World Trade Center and the Pentagon had been attacked by terrorists. The Vice President and other White House senior staff had followed procedure and gone to the protected bunker in the basement of the White House. Cheney was right in that he and the President instituted many illegal practices and taking power from Congress and the Courts. However, the things they elected to do to skirt if not defy the law, were not even good policy and Cheney and Bush became the “government of men” but the result was one of the worst and least popular administrations.
In early America and up to WWII, generally it was the conservatives like Fisher who were opposed to a strong military and many wanted no military at all except in times of war. It was President Dwight Eisenhower who turned the right wing of America into a pro military force.
This was the man for whom the US, through the CIA, destabilized Iranian Society by engineering, a coup against the man who was elected in a free election. Then the US propped up and supported the Shah who, as this quotation illustrates, was opposed to democracy in Iran.
