The crackdown continues without promising sign that it will end up to restoration of peace and stability. The casualties have increased tremendously: more than three thousand injured and more than six hundred death just within three days of police swoop on camps of pro-Mursi’s supporters who are calling for reinstatement of the ousted President.

The Egyptian Health Ministry has raised the death toll from the day’s violence that followed a crackdown on two camps housing supporters of the ousted president to 638. Ministry spokesman Mohammed Fathallah told while talking to media on Thursday said that the number of injured in the previous day’s violence also has risen to 3,994. In spite of enforcement of curfew around the country, Brotherhood leaders have called for continuous protests till the reinstatement of disposed President.

The violence sparked criticisms around the world. Nobel Peace Prize winner Mohamed El Baradei resigned later Wednesday as Egypt’s interim vice-president in protest. Brotherhood leaders called police inroad as “a massacre”.  While Interim Prime Minister Hazem El Beblawi named Wednesday in a televised address to the nation as “difficult day” and that he regretted the bloodshed but offered no apologies for moving against Mursi’s supporters, saying they were given ample warnings to leave and he had tried foreign mediation efforts. Thus, signs show that the country is struggling in an utter chaos. The progressive violence definitely mount pressure on present interim government and will drawdown its public support. As already the attrition of El-Baradei deemed as severe blow to its legitimacy.

So, what is wrong in the country which initially hoped to be changed into the spearhead of democracy in the Arab world?

Apart of several other issues, the Islamists-phobia is a key reason behind the issue in Egypt as well as in the rest of Arab countries. It is a historic problem. When the dictators were ruling the country, they had the support of the countries who are the flagship of democracy and human rights. Meanwhile they supported such authoritarian regime in this region only and only they had no alternative. Indeed, this authoritarian regime prolonged their lives on power through constant highlight of Islamists danger. It was deemed that if these regimes go away, there were only Islamists that will rapidly fill the gap and take power which in turn prove consequential for western countries who fear the political Islam.

With the start of the so-called Arab Spring due to resolve of youngsters, many have reached to a conclusion that authoritarian regimes would not survive and supporting them to remain in power will only prove highly costly and consequential. Thus, their supporters switched side and took the side of demonstrators. This U-turn policy applied to various countries and proved vital in weakening of the regimes. For example, when Moamar Gaddafi regime was deemed to stand against civil uprising, a somehow global consensus made to drag the regime down in order to pave the way for spread of spring. To some extent, similar policy was applied on Syria with difference that many did not have a good memory of interfering in Libya and content with results of the spring in another countries.

I think similar fears have grown after the rise of Islamist parties in Tunisia, Egypt and Libya after the collapse of previous regimes. This time with difference that there are no authoritarian regimes to fear and correspondingly put Islamists behind bars. This time Islamists on power and civilians are horrified about their Islamists agenda.

In an Article I wrote early this year about that whether President Mursi was the representative of those youngsters who brought down the regime of ex-President Hosni Mobarak, I doubted the notion. Those who flowed to Tahrir square were demanding for democracy while some wings like Salafists that expanded during their activities under the Islamists government clearly maintain that people have not right to choose government. Instead the government that run a religious scholar! They openly support suicide bombings particularly if carried out on non-Muslim countries.

Thus, in spite of such fear part of which should be taken seriously, there is one thing more that should be noticed by those who brand all Islamists parties of being al-Qaeda. That is an unfortunately comparison. Every Islamist party is compared with Taliban regime in Afghanistan. Many analysts do not fear to compare for instance the ruling Islamist party in Turkey to Taliban regime while they are not comparable at all. Same is the case with Muslim brotherhood and other Islamist groups that rose on power in the rest of countries. Taliban were not allowing women to go out without a Mahram (male companion like husband, brother and father) but there are no restriction on the way women wear Hijab in Tunisia, Libya and Egypt. These parties bear no similarity to that of Taliban regime in Afghanistan. I really doubt that even liberal figures and wings be as open-minded as the leaders of ruling Islamist party in Turkey. It is utterly prevalent that even those who believe in democracy and human rights meanwhile highly interested to violate the rights of female members of their families.

Even Afghan technocrats who have the support of western countries and always talk about women rights, their wives, sisters and mothers hardly make public appearances.

Therefore, I do not think so that Brotherhood even thinks of developing a Taliban-like government in Egypt because they understand that is not realizable. Part of the modern values like women social participations are indigenized and would not be erased. Islamists party should understand that any such dream would be a suicide.  Hope that the present clashes between Islamist parties like brotherhood declines and all sides stop blaming of being Al-Qaeda or the stooge of western countries. Such an understanding has potential to bring about moderate establishment acceptable to moderate Islamists and liberals and also left wings.