Egyptians are very happy, but angry at world media for use of the word “coup”

The trend I noticed last night is continuing: Egyptians on the whole are very excited about what happened, but increasingly angry at the world media for calling this a coup.

It’s true that the world media is raining on their parade, but I don’t think the motives are as sinister as many Egyptians are claiming. Instead, I think the world media simply doesn’t have the framework to understand yesterday’s events, which may be historically unprecedented.

In a Western context, it’s unthinkable that military intervention to depose a President elected democratically just one year earlier could be anything but a terrifying event.

However, in the West we never had a President who declared himself dictator and got away with it, then had 17 million people in the streets demanding his ouster a few months later– a man who often disappeared at times of national crisis, preferring a private huddle with the leaders of his secret society to interaction with the public.

My biggest worry was that the Army would take power and keep it. That seems not to be happening.

My second biggest worry is that there could now be a witch hunt against Islamists that eventually backfires in the form of terrorism. I hope I’m wrong again here.