NYT: Islamists win vast majority of seats in Egyptian Parliament

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That was to be expected. After Tunisia there was really no hope Egypt could escape.

Let's still hope the Arab world will eventually experience a gradual and not too conflictful secularization framed by democratic institutions. Maybe it's a pipe dream, but it's worth hoping.

Sure, after you become a Ron Paul supporter.

It's not clear whether this will work in Egypt, but at least in Tunisia, it's pretty much guaranteed that at some point the Islamists will govern in an unpopular way and lose an election. Especially since, if you break out the seat totals, the secular parties got 86 seats total to Ennahda's 90 total (with a fair number of seats going to parties which don't obviously identify one way or another, and no parties really to Ennahda's right).

Edit: Those numbers are slightly off, were from when some of the Aridha Chaabia lists were still disqualified. Close enough, though.

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The difference is that in Tunisia the Islamists have to form a coalition government with a social-liberal party.

A system in which the liberal party keeps the Islamists in check is preferable to a system in which the army keeps the Islamists in check.

Situation in Morocco is similar to Tunisia's btw, except there also the monarchy in addition to the secular parties with thom the Islamists have to govern now.

Might be true in Egypt, as well, as I don't think the Salafis and Muslim Brotherhood are fond of one another.

Also, given the fragmentation of the secular parties, I doubt Ennahda actually has to form a coalition with any of them. They could definitely run an ad hoc minority government. (Also, hesitant to call them all liberal, as the secular parties include things like the socialists and communists as well as the liberals, moderates and social democrats.)