Posted on 08/17/2013 11:17:21 AM PDT by TArcher
CAIRO (AP) - Egyptian authorities are considering disbanding the Muslim Brotherhood group, a government spokesman said Saturday, once again outlawing a group that held the pinnacle of government power just more than a month earlier.
The announcement comes after security forces broke up two sit-in protests this week by those calling for the reinstatement of President Mohammed Morsi, a Brotherhood leader deposed in a July 3 coup. The clashes killed more than 600 people that day and sparked protests and violence that killed 173 people Friday alone.
Cabinet spokesman Sherif Shawki said that Prime Minister Hazem el-Beblawi, who leads the military-backed government, assigned the Ministry of Social Solidarity to study the legal possibilities of dissolving the group. He didn't elaborate.
The Muslim Brotherhood group, founded in 1928, came to power a year ago when its Morsi was elected in the country's first free presidential elections. The election came after the overthrow of autocrat Hosni Mubarak in a popular uprising in 2011...
(Excerpt) Read more at apnews.myway.com ...
Are you positive that there isn’t a political party that wants to kill Christians, burn their churches and stone those who disagree with feminism? Now, where homosexuals are concerned - they are off limits. Think about it!
The difference between Islamq and rattlesnakes is that rattlesnakes do serve auseful purpose of controlling the rodent population. Whereas Islam is like an invasive species that destroys the indigenous ecosystem, like Burmese pythons do in Florida.
> I double dog dare them to try
If they succeed we will move them over here...
Works for me!!
> “The muslim brotherhood is a multinational political movement that the people of Egypt put into power in the first place.”
True but to understand the Eygptian people’s remorse you need to read the following:
http://www.foxnews.com/on-air/special-report-bret-baier/blog/2013/07/10/egyptian-alexandria
> “As John Bolton points out, Morsi wasn’t thrown out for being an extremist, he was thrown out for failing to deal with economic issues.”
If John Bolton did point that out, then again it is grossly out of context. I suspect someone put those thoughts in with his name to avoid discussing Morsi’s attempt at installing Sharia law, in effect a coup on Egyptian civilization.
While it is true that Morsi ran on the economic issues and then ignored them, it was his turning to his real purpose which to put Egypt under Sharia law that the Egyptian people reacted in horror.
> “Given a chance, the Egyptian people will turn right around and elect someone ideologically identical to Morsi as long as he speaks with a moderate tongue and deals with the internal economic issues.”
That’s how Morsi appeared to them when he ran for president.
Read the above link and all will be clear.
> “Personally I think talk of outlawing the MB is an act of desperation as the winds begin to shift.”
Personally I think you got the picture wrong. Again read the above link in its entirety and all will be clear.
I think you people are so busy agreeing with each other that the truth could smack you between the eyes with a baseball bat and you would convince yourself that its what you believed all along. You don’t want any proof of anything as long as its what you want to hear.
Personally I’m most disgusted with the complete and utter hypocrisy of so called conservatives. A week ago the standard response around here was to cut aid to Egypt, today I get called a MB supporter for sticking by it.
You mean a No Totalitarian clause in an immutable constitution? I think that would make democracy workable for many places where it has been misdeployed. Iran, Russia, Venezuela, Zimbabwe, New York, well I would vote to add it here!
[You mean a No Totalitarian clause in an immutable constitution?]
Having the purpose of securing the ability of the governed to contradict and correct the errors of their would-be governors/owners.
Yep
There are a lot of like-minded people here, partly because liberals get frustrated and leave. Like talk radio, the format is suited to deliberate analysis subjected to factual verification and logical rigor. Liberalism is an emotional crutch promoted (like welfare dependency) by the would-be dictators of the hard left (formerly known as Communists) who have co-opted the Democrat Party. The cover story “narratives” and bumper-sticker slogans they provide can not stand up to sober inspection.
John Bolton’s opinion on the cause of Morsi’s ouster (not improving the economy) has some validity, but it is not the whole story. The Muslim Brotherhood displayed for everyone to see that they were just what their opponents had always claimed - ruthless, lying would-be dictators. If you read the links that others have provided, you will see just how naked and extreme was the Brotherhood’s grab at absolute power - they neglected the economy and everything else, focused only on consolidating permanent dictatorship. They did little to impose Sharia, except where it entailed vesting power into positions and institutions they controlled, like al Azhar.
They have been exposed. Their justifying “narrative” of religious motivation has lost its credibility, and with it they have lost virtually all trust. They are simply a ruthless political organization bent on total control, using whatever lies, infiltration, subversion, criminal activity and election rigging seem most effective in achieving their end (like the hard leftists running our Democrat Party, who are however, more patient).
I’m done listening to you people.
You’ll figure it out eventually and all sheepishly pretend you never flip flopped.
Let’s face it - the Egyptian Military and the Muslim Brotherhood are not moral equivalents.
The Muslim Brotherhood and its offshoot al Queda are violently opposed to America, Americans, American interests; and seek nothing less than a Global Dictatorship. This is their expressed doctrine.
Shortly after coming to power, Morsi pardoned Mohammed Zawahiri, the brother of the leader of al Queda, released him from jail and appointed him to a position in the Government. While serving in that position, he led the protestors who attacked the US embassy in Cairo on September 11th and raised the black flag of al Queda over the compound.
The enemy of my enemy is my friend. If the Egyptian Military is hunting, killing and imprisoning these bastards, I think that buying them some ammo is money well spent. Cheaper and more effective than doing it ourselves.
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