Who to blame in Egypt!?

By: Alaa Bayoumi

1)      SCAF, which had more powers than any other government in decades, as it has the power of the parliament and president together, but still failed in reforming security agencies, stopping economic loss, and building political consensus and a roadmap for democratic transition.

2)      Mubarak loyalists, who are still in top business, media, and bureaucratic circles throughout the country.

3)      The opposition groups:

a.       The Youth, who are very divided, has no clear plan for the country, and have a total change only perspective and loosely political rhetoric that does not shy form using very foul language, against all political groups and leaders in the country, on social media where youth leaders are active.

b.      The Muslim Brotherhood, who is seen as dominated by an old conservative leadership that failed to attract and unite their own youth activists and who suffers from  “my own group first” kind of mentality.

c.       The seculars, who are very divided and seem to center around individuals not groups or parties. They also have among their top leaders some known pro Mubarak businessmen and loyalists. Some of them have further alienated the people by trying to keep military in power or to ask military to hand over power to some secular leaders like ElBaradei without elections.

d.      Copts who seem to suffer from an isolationist minority syndrome enforced over the last 4 decades and who acted since the revolution as an active religious minority group launching severe rejectionist attacks on Egyptian Islamists.

e.      Salafis, the far right Islamist groups, whose leaders have been adopting hardline rhetoric isolated from reality and that tends to easily divide Egyptians between good and evil

f.        The society in general is under institutionalized and less interested in political activism. The silence of many have contributed to the crisis of its leadership.

At this moment, Egyptians have lots of doubts about their leaders, those in power and those in opposition, and they are tired and need to know who really represents them because all of the groups above were never elected by the people in free and fair elections?