"The declaration was stirring – and uncompromising. The Egyptian people had made a “clear and powerful statement” for “moderation and tolerance”, through the protests that triggered the army’s removal of the Islamist president Mohamed Morsi this month. The ousting created a “momentous opportunity” to prevent “extremists” across the Middle East from “taking any more advantage of the Arab Spring”.
This rhetoric on the people’s will could have come straight from a liberal imperialist playbook in Washington or London. Yet its author was Anwar Gargash, minister of state for foreign affairs in the United Arab Emirates, a country normally reluctant to be seen as interfering abroad – and so distrustful of protest that it outlaws dissent against its hereditary rulers."
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