The Fundamentalist spread was not the side effect of the revolution. These "people" have been living, expanding, and recruiting others into their caves for years. They have been doing all this while doing the most significant: hiding.
The revolution didn't create them out of nothing. It just wanted light everywhere so it removed the piece of stone blocking their cave but what the revolution found was an army of a very organized, well trained and vastly spread creatures. Creatures who/which had been living, breeding and working very hard for the day when they come out; how to recruit the simple minded and how to spread their troops to occupy as much space as they can, which they did.. very successfully. So, now, we don't have any hiding rats, and we have very organized parties who will succeed and rule.. But, one day, in the coming (say)5, 10, 20 years, the caged birds, who the Fundamentalists will cage soon, will break free. They will not be the rats that wait for the day they come out, they will come out by their own determination and power to change. Then, and only then, this country will be the Egypt I and many others dream of.
Written on 3rd of October, 2011 (originally)
