…The menace of Iran is the menace of Islamist insanity, but the Post can’t see that as an issue in Egypt. Liberals are simply blinded by their own need to see their own reflection in their opinions which present them as superior beings. Here the Washington Post editorialist is waving his own credentials as a supporter of democracy over military dictatorship, which in certain contexts is certainly a fine philosophy, but it is out of place here. The set and setting and circumstances of what is happening in Egypt are wholly other; it is a non-Western culture but an Islamic society when nowhere in Islam’s 56 officially Muslim states is there a democratic society those of us who grew up in one would want to live in for more than five minutes. Muslims do not produce democracies as that concept connotes in the West…