Egypt’s military dictator General al-Sisi–who is engaged in a crackdown on journalists & presides over a gulag–told a US congressional delegation visiting Cairo that human rights & civil liberties in Egypt should not be approached from a “Western perspective” because there are domestic & regional differences.
Given the state of human rights & civil liberties in the “West,” our man certainly has a point. What we need internationally is to approach democracy from the perspectives of the Arab Spring, from the perspectives of the glorious Egyptian uprising so mercilessly crushed by the military junta, from the perspectives of the Bahraini & Yemeni uprisings. That’s what democracy worth a damn looks like.