June 24, 2014 | Quote

Here’s Why Egypt Is Jailing 3 Al Jazeera Reporters For The Crime Of Doing Their Jobs

But Qatari gains rapidly evaporated. “The Qataris took a number of extremely ambitious stances over the course of the Arab Spring in support of Muslim Brotherhood movements and governments and dramatically overextended themselves,” David Weinberg, a senior fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies who specializes in Gulf affairs, explained to Business Insider.

Weinberg explained that the Al Jazeera prosecutions might be meant to bolsters Sisi's domestic narrative that outside forces were plotting a Muslim Brotherhood takeover of Egypt. “It enables the government in Cairo to stick to its nationalist agenda of criticizing external intervention and conspiracies to impose what they see as an illegitimate Brotherhood dictatorship,” he said. “They can point to it as a reminder of Morsi's Islamist foreign support.”

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