A chief of the Egyptian coup that removed Muslim Brotherhood leader Mohamed Morsi from the presidency has espoused radical views, including that the West will need to accept a Middle East democracy based on the Islam.
That’s according to a report from Judicial Watch, a Washington-based government watchdog organization.
The group obtained a copy of the writings of Gen. Abdel Fatah El-Sisi, the head of the army in Egypt that moved Morsi from the president’s office to a jail cell.
For years, the U.S. Army War College sat on a 2006 thesis El-Sisi wrote while he studied at the Pennsylvania school, the Army’s most senior military educational institution.
“The challenge that exists is whether the rest of the world will be able to accept a democracy in the Middle East founded on Islamic beliefs,” El-Sisi wrote in his 17-page thesis.
“Practically speaking, this should not be an issue because Islamic beliefs produce behavior that is more than comparable to other religious behavior,” he wrote.
Judicial Watch said the general adopted an “extremist view of Islam’s role in a democracy” and expressed his belief that Islam be the foundation for everything.
“Democracy cannot be understood in the Middle Ease without an understanding of the concept of El Kalafa,” El-Sisi wrote, referencing the decades-long period when Muslims were led by Muhammad.
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