You’ve read about Egypt’s strategic Suez Canal, through which passes nearly 10 percent of global maritime trade. In the near future, to ship goods via the canal, will the world have to pay a tithe to the Muslim Brotherhood, which is playing a key role in the Cairo street protests?

It’s not an abstract question, if you read Examiner columnist Hugh Hewitt’s latest piece. Hewitt calls the Brotherhood an “enormous threat” that “will expand quickly — and with deadly results — if the wrong and the ruthless triumph in Cairo after [President Hosni] Mubarak’s exit.”