Mohamed Morsi signs Egypt's new constitution into law

[Ken Burch]

14. We need to stand with "the Other"-but not to sound arrogant while doing so.

We also need to be conscientious of the ways that the kind of "finger-wagging" you speak of, on many occasions in the past, has been a way for "the West" to push an imperial agenda and to justify intervening in non-Western countries.

Finger-wag, yes...but not with an attitude of superiority OR from the notion that "the West" is entitled to be sanctimonious towards the rest of the world, especially since MOST of what has been taken to be more liberal in "the West" has only come very recently, and had to be forced on the leadership of "the West" from below.