It has always been that way in Egypt at least for the last half-century and more since King Farouk was toppled by Gamal Abdel Nasser and some other colonels and generals. The Muslim Brotherhood, founded in Egypt in 1928, has been the nemesis of every Egyptian government since then.

Of course Western liberals, like Friday’s anonymous editorialist in the Washington Post, are upset because “more than a 1,000 political activists have been rounded up by security forces, and many have been abused. Opposition media commentators have been forced off the air, television channels closed and restrictions placed on text messaging. Meanwhile the government has issued strident statements rejecting the Obama’ administration’s calls for international observers and severely limited the access of domestic monitoring groups.”

Of course the liberal in the West is all het up about this anti-democratic oppression by the Egyptian government, but not yours truly. I support the government’s behavior. I recognize and validate its fear of democracy – and that is because Thomas Jefferson taught me that it can only work with a demos, the common man, that is literate and educated, and these Muslim Egyptians in their vast majority are none of those things.

In Algeria they tried democracy in 1992, had an open election, and who won? The Islamists. And what followed was a civil war, nation-wide carnage, 200,000 people murdered.

In 2006 in Judea, Samaria and Gaza Condi Rice and of course Jimmy Carter supported democracy for the Ishmaelites in those areas, and who won the election? Again, the Islamists.

More proof of what a dummy Jimmy Carter is. Almost thirty years earlier as president he bemoaned the dictatorship of the Shah in Iran, and what he got in his place was masses of Iranians welcoming home from exile the Ayatollah Khomeini.

And now in Turkey the Islamists are in power, because the masses of Muslims there either don’t know any better or don’t care or like simple Russians who loved Joe Stalin, they want and need a despot over them who rules with an iron fist and makes sure there is no anarchy.

So I don’t criticize Mubarak’s brutal suppression of his opposition, the Muslim Brotherhood.

If only Israel would stop calling Hamas Hamas and start calling it the Muslim Brotherhood, Israel’s PR would take a turn for the better…