It was not just the tumultuous crowds in Tahrir Square that cheered last week’s implosion of Mohamed Morsi and mainstream Islamism in the Arab world’s most populous country. As the coup d’état in Cairo unfolded, Bashar al-Assad was doing a war dance on the Muslim Brotherhood’s grave.
“What is happening in Egypt is the fall of what is known as political Islam,” the Syrian president gloated to a newspaper mouthpiece of his regime, which is locked in savage combat with a rebellion that is being hijacked by Sunni Islamist groups.
There is no doubt the pan-Islamist Brotherhood, a mythic movement since its foundation in 1928, has spectacularly self-destructed barely a year after Mr Morsi was elected president by a narrow majority.
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