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"Mr President, the Egyptian army seized power in 1952 and has not relinquished it, and everything we are talking about needs to be seen against that background. We have had, in the current government, a more repressive regime than we had under Mubarak. Mubarak never ordered the gunning down of unarmed demonstrators. Yet all of the instances of repression, whether of journalists or of civil society or of opposition groups in Egypt, are things that we effectively turned a blind eye to when we sanctioned the coup in the first place and refused to call it a coup.
This repression does not become justified simply because Sisi has made a good speech in Cairo about the need for reform of Islam, or simply because he has normalised relations with Israel. On the contrary, if we set up as the only antonym to Islamism a basically autocratic government then we kill the prospects for the development of moderate conservative democracy in the Muslim world. We give people the wretched choice between generals and mullahs, which has been the curse of that region for two generations now. The people of Egypt deserve better."@en1
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