Opponents of Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi protest in the coastal city of Alexandria on June 28, 2013
Posted on 06/29/2013 8:47:03 PM PDT by kristinn
As tension mounted here in anticipation of Sunday protests against President Mohamed Morsy, another foe emerged for many Egyptians: the United States.
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For months, Egyptian liberals and moderates have grown angrier over what they say is inexplicable U.S. support for Islamists.
In Tahrir Square, Cairo's epicenter of protest since 2011, graffiti near the Egyptian Museum declares: “Down with the Brotherhood, Down with America!”
On a downtown building, a poster shows a distorted portrait of U.S. Ambassador Anne Patterson over the words, “Crone, Go Home.” On a nearby corner, another poster says, “Obama supports terrorism.”
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In a recent speech, Patterson defended working with the Morsy government “across a huge range of issues” because it was democratically elected.
“Some say that street action will produce better results than elections. To be honest, my government and I are deeply skeptical,” she said. Instead, she encouraged Egyptians to organize and participate in politics.
Her address infuriated Egyptians who say she neglected to mention any presidential abuses.
“The real problem of the speech is the mere fact that it was given at all — and that, once given, the ambassador ignored the real cause of the current Egyptian turmoil, which is the forced and vile constitution passed by nearly extra-legal means,” said an Egyptian American blogger writing under the pen name Salama Moussa.
“The least she could have done is couple her stout defense of President Morsy with a call to amend a constitution that violates most civilized norms, including American values.”
Days after Patterson's speech, Egyptian media filmed her leaving a meeting with Khairat El Shater, the Brotherhood's No. 2 man and widely considered the real power behind Morsy.
That visit contributed to Egyptian suspicions that Washington backs the Brotherhood.
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Wow. I wonder if Meet the Press will pick up on this. Not.
Our taxpayer monies funding the Muslim Brotherhood. So sorry, Egypt. Obama does not have the support of the American people.
I’m surprised and heartened by the size of the anti Muslim Brotherhood coalition. They are right about Obama, just ask Israel for a non political opinion.
If we were supporting democracy in Egypt, why are all the Democratic. Groups opposed to us.
Muslim Brotherhood are the supporters of the Taliban and al Qaeda
We are governed by traitors.
So are we, guys, so are we...
We have Egyptians trying to teach us about Democracy and Chinese Communists trying to teach us about Capitalism thanks to all the jag-off parasites who voted for ObaMao. Thank you, idiots. What will it take for yinz to learn a damn thing?
Well all we can tell them is the Kenyan is not our President. The constitution was hijacked and this admitted foreign born twice unconstitutionally elected communist was allowed to commandeer the WH because the Republican party was hijacked as well by a bunch of limp wristed faggot RINOs who buckle to their knees anytime a member of the Treason party snaps its fingers.
If there’s a dipsh*t Moslem terrorist on Planet Earth that Obama hasn’t yet supported, then it’s only a matter of time before he does.
Meanwhile, Israel’s left hanging in the wind and any moderate Moslem leader with a friendly inclination toward the West has been placed on Obama’s Sh*T List.
Opponents of Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi protest in the coastal city of Alexandria on June 28, 2013
It's just your usual friendly little muslim get-together...what could possibly go wrong?
Sir Winston Churchill once said, “the Americans always make the right choices, after they have exhausted every other possibility”.
With all of our high-brow, intelligent, diplomatic, political personnel, we always fall into the same “sucker” trap.
Support your enemy so he won't hurt you...until he throws that sucker punch and then you're dazed, “where did that come from”? Oh my.
Instead, she encouraged Egyptians to organize and participate in politics.
you mean like her boss, Obama encourages organizations like
the tea party?
it would be funny if it wasn’t so sad and deadly serious for our country.
The people of Egypt just seem to want their voice to be heard -— not the outcome of the first election after the initial Arab Spring. The people are speaking out once again, I think less because of America, and more because of the situation with their own leaders. Read more about it in a post by Col. (ret.) Dr. Jacques Neriah at the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs website: http://jcpa.org/towards-a-constitutional-crisis-in-egypt/
All of this turmoil and in-fighting in the Arab States, Egypt, Syria, Turkey, and who knows where next, helps one state considerably. Namely Israel. The longer the Arabs fight each other, the longer they stay out of Israel’s hair, and the alleged “peace process” between Israel and the Pali’s gets put off into the distant future. By the time the Arab turmoil subsides, if it even does, Obama will be out of office and thus Israel will have dodged the bullet of a bullied rotten deal for their state. I hope.
America doesn’t support the Moslem Brotherhood...the United States is how it should be read, because the US doesn’t hold the overall title of three segments of North, Central, and South America...and with that...the Obama Administration is Supporting the Moslem Brotherhood - not the U.S.
The arrogance of news reporters and their inability to learn before actually penning a story is a total farce!
oh, it’s explicable all right
Bob Schieffer is all over it.
Yay, thanks for the tip.
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