http://www.theatlantic.com/
For those people still clinging to the dream, despite reality intervening in the ensuing 18 months, that the Arab spring was actually a good thing, it's time to admit that maybe the mass of Egyptians aren't ready for democracy, to respect minority (including women's rights) and that it's safe to say now that they've elected an islamist president and parliament that things will be considerably worse for the masses there (largely a result of their own doing).
Before Mubarak was deposed, they had less freedom: less freedom to rape, pillage, rob, murder, harass. I spent a week in Cairo in 1999 and this sort of thing never could have happened then. Arab societies seem to breed a disdain for the other, be they Coptic Christians, Jews, their own women, Westerners. That doesn't bode well for a true democracy (a system that affects people daily and not just when they vote once a decade), where everyone's rights are respected both in creed and deed
P.S. As my colleague Michael Lipkin says, "There's nothing more dangerous than 10th century morality combined with 21st century technology."
