Muslim Brotherhood Members Massacre 7-Raped in Tahir Square-Obama: “Leave the Brotherhood Alone!”

Muslim Brotherhood Members Massacre 7 in Middle Class Neighborhood While Shouting “Allah Akbar”

Posted By Daniel Greenfield On July 7, 2013 @ 2:14 pm In The Point | 7 Comments

But first a public service announcement from Barack Obama. “I now call on the Egyptian military to move quickly and responsibly to return full authority back to a democratically elected civilian government as soon as possible through an inclusive and transparent process, and to avoid any arbitrary arrests of President Morsi and his supporters.”

I’m not sure whether the arrests of these mass murderers would qualify as “arbitrary”. But going by the DOJ’s record, the answer is probably yes.

Armed to the teeth, hundreds of Islamists left a trail of destruction when they tried to pass through a normally quiet Cairo neighbourhood, only to be confronted by residents who tried to stop them reaching Tahrir Square.
“The Brotherhood attacked the area with all kinds of weapons,” said Mohammed Yehya, a resident who lost three of his friends in the mayhem.
The inhabitants of the Nile island neighbourhood reported seeing bearded Islamists armed with machineguns, machetes and sticks late on Friday before the deadly clashes broke out.
Residents say the attack began shortly after the Muslim Brotherhood’s supreme guide, Mohammed Badie, gave a fiery speech to Morsi supporters in Cairo’s Nasr City, which was broadcast live on television.
“The attack came minutes after Badie’s speech. They treated us like infidels. They were chanting ‘Allahu akbar’ (God is greatest) as they were shooting us,” said Ahmed Fattouh.
“The clashes started at 7:30 pm and continued until three in the morning. Their ammunition just didn’t run out. They are trying to terrorise us and take over the country,” said Khaled Tawfik.

And now another public service message from Barack Obama, America’s first democratically elected Muslim Brotherhood president.

The administration has urged the Egyptian military to stop using heavy-handed tactics against the Brotherhood, according to two U.S. officials who asked not to be identified commenting on private communications.

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Obama to Egypt: “Leave the Brotherhood Alone!”

Posted By Daniel Greenfield On July 7, 2013 @ 11:53 am In The Point | 16 Comments

Obama Inc. assures us that it is absolutely not taking any sides in Egypt. Aside from all the sides that it’s taking.

“I now call on the Egyptian military to move quickly and responsibly to return full authority back to a democratically elected civilian government as soon as possible through an inclusive and transparent process, and to avoid any arbitrary arrests of President Morsy and his supporters.”

You might think that it should be up to the Egyptian judiciary to decide such things, but the Lawyer-in-Chief knows better. Just as he knew better in Honduras.

But don’t worry. He’s not taking sides. Just ask the Iranian Green Revolution protesters. Or anyone protesting against a government he supports.

Meanwhile Obama has a message for Egypt. “Leave the Brotherhood alone!”

“The administration has urged the Egyptian military to stop using heavy-handed tactics against the Brotherhood, according to two U.S. officials who asked not to be identified commenting on private communications. They said the administration is concerned that some in the military may want to provoke the Islamists to violence and provide a rationale for crushing the movement once and for all.”

Let’s go on a stomach-turning spin ride.

Let’s unpack this lame mule.

Let’s try to understand the sick twisted mindset behind an establishment that supports Islamic terrorism.

If the Brotherhood engages in violence… it’s only because the military made them do it in order to lock them up. If Hamas kills Israelis, it’s only because the Israelis provoked them into doing it in order to bomb them. If Al Qaeda kills Americans, it’s only because we provoked them into doing it in order to start a war with them.

Don’t believe that? Just watch Iron Man 3, Star Trek: Into Darkness, The Lone Ranger or just about any summer blockbuster that reflects the establishment view of Islamic terrorism.

But no one’s taking sides. They’re just taking the side that isn’t ours. Leave the Brotherhood alone. They’re just being provoked into terrorism and tyranny as part of a conspiracy by the military-industrial complex.

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Raped in Tahrir Square for Daring to Oppose President Morsi

Posted By Daniel Greenfield On July 7, 2013 @ 7:55 pm In The Point | 5 Comments

This is the story of a woman sexually assaulted for daring to oppose the Muslim Brotherhood regime that Barack Obama, John McCain, and not so surprisingly, Senator Menendez, insist have to be part of any future Egyptian government.

She saw them running towards her as she approached Cairo’s Tahrir Square and within seconds she was surrounded.
What followed for Yasmine El-Baramawy was the most terrifying 70 minutes of her life – a prolonged, brutal rape and sexual assault by dozens of men, while a crowd looked on. And did nothing.
More than 100 thugs also beat her with sticks and slashed at her with knives – disgusting, degrading ‘punishment’ because she dared to join the protests against former President Mohammed Morsi and his Muslim Brotherhood party.
Yasmine was back in Tahrir Square yesterday – and once again felt that rising sense of panic as vast crowds clashed.
Egyptian civil rights activists say that at least 91 women were sexually assaulted or raped in Tahrir Square during protests, which began last Sunday.
The assailants operated in a climate of impunity – encouraged by religious zealots within the government who had called female protesters whores and who had blamed rape victims for not staying home. It is even believed that the gangs were paid by the Muslim Brotherhood.
Yasmine’s nightmare happened last November as she tried to join friends in the square to protest against Morsi’s constitutional changes, which granted him unlimited powers.
Despite her statuesque 5ft 9in frame, Yasmine could do nothing to stop them. The daughter of a businessman and a chemist, Yasmine is a strong, intelligent and confident young woman, who has always felt able to take care of herself. But the numbers were overwhelming.
“I didn’t know what was happening to me or when it would end. I thought that I would faint or die, but I still tried to fight back.’
She was dragged several hundred yards as the mob feverishly tore at her clothes. Some tried to cut them off while she desperately clung to her trousers.
‘When they couldn’t get the jeans off, they slit them at the back with a knife. I was bleeding from my face and nose, but that didn’t stop them.’
Surprisingly, her attackers were not feral kids or teenagers, but grown men ‘aged in their 20s to 40s.’ Some were well-dressed and respectable.
Yasmine adds: ‘One guy tried to French kiss me and I bit his tongue so hard it bled. He screamed in agony and started kicking me in the back as I lay on the ground.
‘They tried to put me in a car, but there were so many people crowding around it that they couldn’t open the door. I ended up pinned to the bonnet as they drove a block away.’
The attack continued as the vehicle crawled along at slow speed. Some of the men whispered menacingly, ‘We are going to f*** you.’
By now Yasmine was covered with blood and excrement, having been pushed into sewage on the ground.
Thankfully, she was eventually rescued by a woman dressed in traditional Islamic dress and several of her male friends and neighbours.
She blames a cultural acceptance of sexual harassment and an orchestrated campaign by the state for what happened – and is calling for a comprehensive national strategy on the part of the government to change public attitude.
Mervat El-Tallawy, a prominent Egyptian female politician, told The Mail on Sunday it was women who had suffered most under Morsi’s regime.
‘His party regard them as little more than chattel and sex slaves,’ says Ms El-Tallawy, chairwoman of the National Women’s Council.
She described the mob rapes as ‘sexual terrorism’ aimed at scaring women into a submissive role.
‘In February 2012, members of the Shura Council, Egypt’s legislative body, blamed women for the increase in sexual assaults “because they put themselves in such circumstances’’,’ says Mrs El-Tallawy. ‘In doing so, they sent the signal that it is OK for a man to touch any woman in the street.
‘Morsi’s government moved to deny women the right to right to seek a divorce under Islam, supported female circumcision, sacked women in top government jobs and tried to lower the age of consent for girls to marry from 18 to nine.
‘His party is notoriously anti-women. Its members don’t see us as citizens, even though we make up nearly half the population.
‘They want to treat us like slaves whose role is to bear babies and serve the sexual needs of men. They have tried to take us from a modern, civilised and religiously tolerant country back into the dark ages.’

It might be a stretch to say that Egypt was ever all that religiously tolerant but there is no doubt that Morsi and the Muslim Brotherhood made things worse. But despite that Obama and McCain seem determined to put the Brotherhood back in power.

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