Obama's allies, Morsi and the Muslim Brotherhood, wage real war against women and minorities

Why isn't President Obama denouncing the actions of President Mohammed Morsi and the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt? Everything that Morsi and the Brotherhood are doing is utterly antithetical to the development of a liberal, secular democracy In Cairo. Morsi and the Brotherhood are trying to ram through a constitution that was drafted by an Islamist dominated assembly. Of this constitution, which establishes sharia as the basis of Egyptian society, the Times of Israel writes:

One of Egypt’s most prominent ultraconservative Muslim clerics had high praise for the country’s draft constitution. Speaking to fellow clerics, he said this was the charter they had long wanted, ensuring that laws and rights would be strictly subordinated to Islamic law.

“This constitution has more complete restraints on rights than ever existed before in any Egyptian constitution,” Sheik Yasser Borhami assured the clerics. “This will not be a democracy that can allow what God forbids or forbid what God allows.”

The draft constitution that is now at the center of worsening political turmoil would empower Islamists to carry out the most widespread and strictest implementation of Islamic law that modern Egypt has seen. That authority rests on the three articles that explicitly mention Shariah, as well as obscure legal language buried in a number of other articles that few noticed during the charter’s drafting but that Islamists insisted on including.

As Egypt descends into Iran-like medieval darkness, the Obama Administration stands by and does nothing, presumably "leading from behind" once again. As David Ignatius writes:

Through this upheaval, the Obama administration has been oddly restrained. After the power grab, State Department spokesman Victoria Nuland said: "We call for calm and encourage all parties to work together and call for all Egyptians to resolve their differences over these important issues peacefully and through democratic dialogue." Not exactly a thundering denunciation.

"You need to explain to me why the U.S. reaction to Morsi's behavior is so muted," one Arab official wrote me. "So a Muslim Brotherhood leader becomes president of Egypt. He then swoops in with the most daring usurping of presidential powers since the Pharaohs, enough to make Mubarak look like a minor league autocrat in training by comparison, and the only response the USG can put out is [Nuland's statement]." This official wondered if the U.S. had lost its moral and political bearings in its enthusiasm to find new friends.

We heard for months that the Republicans were "waging a war against women and minorities." Now President Obama stands by and does nothing as women's rights and the rights of minorities in Egypt are trampled on.