Toby paints a nice story, but he forgets that the Egyptian people revolted against the Muslim Brotherhood and asked the army to take control of he country. Morsi and the Muslim Brotherhood tried unsuccessfully to turn Egypt into a theocratic state ruled by Sharia law. The constitution of the country was supposed to be rewritten by an assembly of parties. The church parties and non-Islamists resigned when Morsi granted himself dictatorial powers and gave the assembly only 2 months to finish their work. The non-Islamisits discovered while they were negotiating the contents of the constitution, the Islamists had drafted their own. Mohamed Zaraa explained the consequences of the new articles as follows:

"Koran interpretations will be used which are roughly one thousand years old. That will transform our civilian state into an Islamic one."

Worse yet Morsi sought to prevent Egyptian courts from dissolving the assembly, ruling on the legality of the new laws, thus making it immune from judicial review. Morsi also sought to severely limit women's rights in Egypt. So the Egyptian people revolted and called upon the army to depose Egypt of its new tyrant. The army they thought was the lesser of two evils.