Egypt risks sliding into civil war, the country’s leading religious authority warned Friday, as the nation braced itself for mass nationwide protests.
Organizers of “June 30” demonstrations — which mark one year since Islamist President Mohammed Morsi’s election — claim they have the backing of an estimated 15 million Egyptians who want him to resign.
“Only God knows what will happen [on Sunday],” said Gamal Abdul Aziz, a pro-Morsi car mechanic in Madba’a, a blue-collar district in Cairo.
..“We are sure that we will go out and get beaten up by the [Muslim] Brotherhood [but] we are going out despite this,” he said. “There is no security, there is economic collapse, the electricity cuts off and everybody is suffering. They will say Morsi is not at fault, but electricity didn’t cut off when the military governed.”
KT McFarland on Fox’ America Live today.
Good interview, but unfortunately she never mentioned anything about US troops as “peacekeepers,” let alone Fort Hood troops.
She did say that today Morsi/MB supporters fired on anti-Morsi/MB demonstrators. The biggest Cairo demonstration is expected Sunday.
Other points McFarland made:
1) Morsi/MB has totally mismanaged economy. Their economy has “flatlined”: No tourism to bring in foreign currency; no foreign investment; wealthy Egyptians are leaving; food shortages by end of year (Egypt is world’s largest importer of wheat)
2) Christians persecuted and killed (10% of population is Christian); churches burned. “I think you will see MORE of this.”
3) “You don’t want to be in the middle of someone else’s civil war.” “We are reaping what we sowed 2-3 years ago when we pulled the rug out from under the dictators, and what has taken their place for the most part is chaos.”
4) Egypt just arrested someone who was part of the “US government and the Pro-Democracy movement.”
5) She expects more chaos for the foreseeable future.
6) 3) Biggest unknown factor: What will the Egyptian army do? Who will they support?
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Leave it to Obama to come up with a perverted, even sadistic, idea to “fix” the “problem”-— Let’s send 400 Ft Hood troops to Egypt to keep the “peace.”