Who saw that coming?

I just don't understand why some people seem surprised that the Muslim Brotherhood and its even more Islamist (yes scarily that is possible) cousins in the Nour party look like forming the next Egyptian government. The only party organised and capable of fighting to win the election were the Muslim Brotherood and I predicted that they would be the winners before the election was even called. The western media, especially the BBC, looked at the 'liberals' in Tahrir Square and thought that they represented all of Egypt. The BBC and others were wrong on two counts: first the 'liberals' in Tahrir represented a small number of metropolitan types, the majority of Egyptians are not in the slightest metropolitan and they were easy meat for the Muslim Brotherhood's inducements, second the 'liberals' in Tahrir Square were not that liberal, it's just that the BBC decided (as usual) to ignore the banners expressing hatred for Jews, the rapes and the calls for Islamist government.

With an Islamist government in Egypt, a government that could well include Aboud al-Zumour who was convicted of masterminding the assassination of the late President Anwar Sadat, a man who was a close friend of Ayman Zawahiri (the man now leading al-Qaeda), a man who describes the Al Quaeda leader as a "very kind and nice man". Aboud al-Zumour backs "resistance" against the "occupiers" in the Middle East - America and Israel. In his ideal Egypt, the sale of alcohol would be banned, beaches would be segregated and thieves would have their hands cut off - though, he says "it would not happen because no-one would steal".

Well done BBC for supporting the Arab Spring revolutiions, Islamist governments are the result, but maybe that is what you wanted.