An excellent analysis of events in Egyptian - in 4 short paragraphs.
Seems to me that the high brow political philosophy of either democracy or political Islam all got swamped under by the fact that people are going hungry, the economy is collapsing, and just getting from A to B with enough petrol to get there, while the MB who had dreamt of power for close on a century were transfixed by matters such as a constitution rooted in the values of a different century and another world, and more concerned about everyone being half awake enough to go to prayers in the morning than whether the economy is flourishing and closing the cities down at night losing revenues and changing a culture.
The MB, it turned out, are much better at Islamic theory than Economic theory, and the practicalities of running a country where embracing all the disparate elements within the population and providing the simple everyday functional requirements of an entire nation are a world away from the classrooms of the madrassat and the pulpits of the mosques.
Probably why secular governments are generally more successful and stable. In power they tend towards simple management rather than ideological religious tenets. Although we too have equally fundamentalist ideologists of a very different hue right now that may cause just as much chaos and unrest in the long run for very different reasons right now. Secular governments, far often more concerned with the distribution of fresh food and keeping public transport running and on time than whether everyone is up in time to go to prayers.
If the MB had just acted like a proper government than a religious cult trying to impose its values and its habits on everyone else, they might have stood half a chance. As it is, if people are to be fed and the country is kept moving, then obviously the Army thought they had to do something before things went too far.
This was written in the comments section of the Guardian by Rochdalelass http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/jul/05/failure-egypt-islamist-experiment-violence
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