It was the summer of 2012, and I was enrolled in an immersion Arabic program. My professor was a young, politically oriented Egyptian Muslim. I asked her what she thought of the brotherhood, and she said, “We will see. They seem like good people who want to do the right thing, but we will find out.” Egypt did find out. When the nation realized the reality of the brotherhood’s Islamist aims, including its dictatorial means, the nation turned on them. The crackdown on the brotherhood was brutal. Voters in Egypt didn’t know what they had asked for.
