.... During the demonstrations, the secularists were all over the Western media. The Muslim Brotherhood, we were assured, was prepared to play a secondary part. If the secularists really believed this lie, then they are merely useful idiots for an Islamic revolution that will roll over them exactly as the Bolsheviks rolled over Kerensky and the social democrats in Russia.
There is a long line of foolish liberals who back revolutions against authority and then are astonished when the revolutions get out of control. Lafayette was lucky to get out of France with his neck before the Jacobins got him, but many others were not so lucky, including the poet André Chénier and the scientist Lavoisier. [MailOnline] Read more
