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It’s one thing to hear and read about the deteriorating situation in Egypt under the rule of the Muslim Brotherhood — it’s another thing to actually see it. While visiting Cairo in March 2013, Business Insider’s Robert Johnson talked to disillusioned Egyptians who say conditions are worse than ever.
“Thugs often run the streets, crime rates have skyrocketed, and police feel they’re outgunned, faced with the flood of weapons filling Cairo’s streets,” Johnson writes. “Making matters worse, everything from utilities to gasoline is both more expensive and more difficult to acquire than it was before the Muslim Brotherhood.”
Johnson provides a rare up-close look at current-day Cairo under the Muslim Brotherhood:
Egypt's problems were economic in nature not really political. I remember watching Al Jezeera clips before the Arab Spring about how Egypt was going broke subsidizing bread. How young men with education couldn't afford apartments and thus couldn't get married and thinking this isn't going to end well.
Unless and until the economy of Egypt is addressed nothing will work right there. Into this malaise Ethiopia is pushing ahead with a dam on the Nile which threatens to dry up swaths of fertile land of Egypt. Tourism is down because who wants to have their throats slit visiting ancient ruins?
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