Defying Mubarak’s goons on May 11
Source: AP via Yahoo! News

Hundreds more were arrested in Egypt Friday as a result of the massive pro-democracy protests in this pharaonic tyranny that is proving itself a petri dish for Islamofascists. The intent of the democracy protestors is to stop that from happening by stopping tyranny. These fearless unarmed Egyptians are not only fighting for democratic revolution, they are also fighting binladenite Islamofascism. Not with clubs, as the Mubarakites do, but with the inner fire of democracy, something that dries up Islamofascism like a desert wind. Sadly, the U.S. supports this wretched regime in a historic anachronism, allowing it to cling to power as it does. That has got to come to an end, notes Kirk Sowell in a beautiful piece on his own site, Arab World Analysis here.

Kirk sums up the background:

Two judges, Mahmud Maky and Hisham Bastaweisi, were arrested last year for criticizing ballot manipulation in the election. Specifically, they were charged with defaming the judiciary and their fellow judges, although Egyptian judges are supporting Maky and Bastaweisi strongly and threatening to strike. The immediate impetus for these protests, which began on April 18 but reached a critical mass Thursday, was a new stage in the disciplinary proceedings against them. The three factions protesting which were mentioned by name are the Muslim Brotherhood, the leftist Popular Campaign for Change, and the liberal Hizb al-Ghad/Tomorrow Party. (In Arabic parlance, “leftist” usually means Marxist, while “liberal” means democratic and Westernizing.)

Read the whole thing here.