Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood Has Second Thoughts About Anti-American Protests

 
After previously calling for a ‘million-man march’ today against the United States in response to an anti-Mohammed video, Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood suddenly reversed itself and called off the protests. The Brotherhood’s back peddling came too late to stop mass protests in Cairo today, but demonstrations were calmer than yesterday. This week’s anti-U.S. protests and violence are posing difficult questions about how post-Arab Spring governments will deal with extremism as well as whether warnings about the September 11, 2012 attacks on U.S. diplomatic compounds were ignored or mishandled by U.S. intelligence.

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