Source: The Economnist:
THE fall of Muhammad Morsi in a military coup has prompted celebration in some quarters of the Arab and neighbouring Muslim world, mourning in others, and hesitation and confusion elsewhere.
Moderate Islamist parties have denounced the coup while distancing themselves from Mr Morsi’s failings that provoked it. In Turkey, where the army used to meddle repeatedly in politics until 1997, the last time it ousted a prime minister who had lost favour, members of the present ruling Islamist party were quick to express their disapproval. Syria’s Muslim Brotherhood, which harbours hopes of winning power should President Bashar Assad go, also condemned the event. In Tunisia Rashid Ghannouchi, who heads Nahda, an Islamist party that swept to power in the wake of Tunisia’s revolution two years ago, was quick to say his party would not go the way of Mr Morsi’s.
By contrast, puritanical Salafists and jihadists across the region have seized on Mr Morsi’s hounding from power to vindicate their long-held hostility to the ballot box. “Democracy won’t give us Islam or godly law,” tweeted the Syrian Islamic Front, a coalition of devout rebel groups in Syria.