Posted on 11/23/2012 7:01:50 AM PST by mandaladon
Protesters set fire on Friday to the offices of the Muslim Brotherhood, the party of Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi, a day after he assumed broad new powers not subject to appeal. Pro- and anti-Morsi rallies erupted in cities across Egypt. Protesters torched Muslim Brotherhood offices on Friday, state media said, as supporters and opponents of President Mohamed Morsi staged rival rallies across Egypt a day after he assumed sweeping powers.
The offices of the Freedom and Justice Party (FJP), the Muslim Brotherhood's political arm, were set ablaze in the canal cities of Ismailiya and Port Said, state television said.
An FJP official told AFP the party's office was also stormed in the Mediterranean city of Alexandria, where clashes broke out between rival demonstrators.
In Cairo, an array of liberal and secular groups, including activists at the forefront of the protest movement that forced veteran strongman Hosni Mubarak from power early last year, planned to march on Tahrir Square, Cairo's iconic protest hub, to demonstrate against the "new pharaoh".
Morsi's backers led by the powerful Muslim Brotherhood gathered outside the presidential palace in north Cairo in a show of support for his decision to temporarily place his decisions above judicial oversight.
"The people support the president's decisions," the crowd chanted.
Morsi was mulling an address to the nation defending his decision later in the day, aides said.
On Thursday, the president undercut a hostile judiciary that had been considering whether to scrap an Islamist-dominated panel drawing up a new constitution, stripping judges of the right to rule on the case or to challenge his decrees.
The decision effectively places the president above judicial oversight until a new constitution is ratified.
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Who thought that the “arab spring” would work out well for “Democracy” when the Muslim “Brotherhood” was the only group sufficiently organized to win electoral victory?
Surely not I, but I guess the dolts at the US State Department and the Democrat Party led by Pelosi, Zero, and Reid did.
Popcorn. Root for both sides to lose.
Betcha Obama is cuttin’ a large check to cover any extraneous
expenses during the transition.
Betcha Obama is probably cuttin’ a large foreign aid check to cover any extraneous expenses during the new Egyptian transition.
Yep....out of the frying pan and into the fire. Big time.
Too bad Obama voters aren’t noticing.
The majority of Obama voters don't even know Egypt is a country, much less what's going on there and what it might mean for this country. They just want more free ice cream.
“Popcorn. Root for both sides to lose.”
I think we should take about 200 hardended US prisoners on death row for murder (male, 18-24 years of age) give them each an AK style weapon, and parachute them right into the middle of the riots in Egypt. Right before they jump, give them each a satchel with 10 loaded 30 round magazines. Create a pay per view event using drone videos and helmet cams and use the proceeds to pay down the national debt.
Arab Spring
Summer of Muslim discontent
Autumn of Islamic illusion
Arab Winter
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