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The recently won democracy in Egypt after the Muslim Brotherhood's win in the country could be fleeting, an analyst has said. According to Fox News, Kori Schake, a research fellow at the Hoover Institution, said that Mohammad Mursi and the Muslim Brotherhood's rise in the country is opposed by candidates aligned with Hosni Mubarak and the Egyptian military. "With the Islamist parties, because they are revolutionary, that is -- they seek to change the societies as they have been governed -- the fear is that you will get one man, one vote, one time," Schake said. Schake also said that the Brotherhood could adjust the peace treaty with Israel and also has members who support Shariah law, which could mean fewer rights for women. Some believe that the Brotherhood would succeed in Egypt , Schake, however, worries it will fail to bring security and prosperity, and that could bring a new fear. "That politics can't fix this, the routine ways we govern our societies can't fix this. This stalemate could lead to calls for violence," she said. Former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice questioned what those moves would mean for the tenuous U.S.-Egypt relationship. "No American president can support an Egypt that calls into question the historic treaty between Israel and Egypt . And no American president can support an Egypt that doesn't fully recognize women's rights or the rights of religious minorities," Rice said.

Muslim Brotherhood's rise in Egypt sparks concern about democracy