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It turns out that the earthquake rattling the Middle East and tearing apart Arab and Islamic nation-states is not what we thought it to be. Having gone on for nearly three years, it sometimes grows weaker or stronger, disappearing and then cropping up in surprising places. Occasionally it devours its own perpetrators. The magnitude of the events proves how little the experts — indeed the world — understand what is transpiring in the complex Arab and Muslim societies, and how just deep that lack of understanding is.
The latest twist, by far the most fascinating one we have seen to date, is the counter-reaction of the Arab masses to the sweeping takeover of the countries in the Middle East by the Muslim Brotherhood.
