Egypt: Morsi Tries on a Mask of Moderation

To ease concerns about the Muslim Brotherhood’s rise to power in the Arab World’s most populous country, Egyptian president-elect Mohammed Morsi has backtracked on many of his previous extreme positions and reached out to liberals and to Egypt’s Christians. But at the same time, Morsi is pressing the military to give back some of the power it grabbed for itself over the last few weeks and probably hopes his conciliatory rhetoric will help him succeed. Observers inside and outside of Egypt are now watching to see how much power the Egyptian military will cede to Morsi and whether the Muslim Brotherhood has in fact really changed.

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