“As pressure mounts on Egypt’s military-backed interim government to forcibly disperse supporters of ousted president Mohammed Morsi from their massive sit-ins, some of the loudest, most passionate voices calling for security forces to clear the encampments come from liberals here. Liberal commentators, activists and politicians — on-state controlled media and across a spectrum of independent channels — are saying that it is long past time to evict the tens of thousands of Morsi supporters and Muslim Brotherhood backers from their sit-ins around Cairo University and the Rabaa al-Adawiya mosque……………..”

Egypt’s liberals have come along way from their “revolutionary” days of two years ago. I mean both types of liberals: the pro-Mubarak felul liberals and the former rebels against Mubarak (probably including leaders of the new tamarrod movement that was led by the UAE shaikhs). Now they want the Egyptian army to do to protesting Islamists at Rab’a what it would not do in 2011 at Tahrir. What many of them did not want it to do in 2011 during the Tahrir protests. They want the military to crush the pro-Morsi protests, something they did not want the military to do when they, the liberals, or many of them, were occupying Tahrir Square to make their (legitimate) political demands.
That is “nifaq”, spelling h-y-p-o-c-r-i-s-y in the Egyptian dialect of Arabic. Actually in all dialects of Arabic, from Morocco to the Comoros.

Cheers
mhg