Posted on 02/02/2011 4:41:13 AM PST by sunmars
Update : battles have started.
There is a tense stand-off in the Egyptian capital's main square, after fights broke out between supporters and opponents of beleaguered President Hosni Mubarak.
Thousands of the president's supporters had surged into Cairo's Tahrir Square, dismantling barricades set up by anti-Mubarak groups.
(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.co.uk ...
Mubarak looks like he has stuck his middle finger up at Obama.
You are misinformed. The Copts I know prefer Mubarek and fear the rise of the MB. What you are saying is the mirror opposite of reality.
Well, it's a city. A throws it at B, B throws it back at A.
I once saw a monkey on Little Rascals, pitching coconuts with more passion than this.
Improve your reading skills!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
What I said.
"Well, perhaps because in each case there were Islamic fundamentalists who wanted to see the more secular government toppled so they could install a more Islamic government."
Everything is not either or, but usually more so or less so. And, yes, Mubarak has been more secular than anything the Muslim Brotherhood might have in mind.
They probably can't tell the difference. These days, who can?
A lot of people there are blaming Al Jazeera for supporting the government. They don’t realize the govt pulled their accreditation and forced them to stop, and the protesters want to know why alJazeera isn’t backing them.
How does he feel about your being a freeper and Obama opponent? I've noticed that libs tend to end "friendships" with conservatives who do not hide their politics, while conservatives tend not to count politics against friends as much.
No, the Mubarak lot are hunting down Al Jazeera not the anti Gov.
Unfortunately, the journalists cannot see what would be the best outcome of all this: The protest plays out, the military remains the power behind the throne, but real honest to God elections are allowed in September (for the first time since the early Post WWII era). If the Muslim Brotherhood (which may account for a maximum of 20% of the vote as things now stand) becomes violent, and pushes more street demonstrations, it would be banned from the September elections. Now, as has been the case since the early nineteen fifties, the military is the key.
Is anyone else watching the BBC feed? Did anyone else hear the cries of “Allahu Akhbar” in the background?
I agree. It is evil. It also is not shocking.
Both sides win on that result. Remember, today's protester, freedom fighter, or community organizer, becomes tommorrow's troublemaker. It's a familiar pattern to the Middle East, and one which has been repeating itself like a bad logic loop for centuries.
The thing I find revealing in Obamma's comments is that in a true democracy, time shaves the edge off of radicalism. In a democracy you have elections. Egypt's elections are in six months. What's to gain by Obamma demanding Mubarak step down now? Islamic community organizers need to get comfortable with the fact that Mubarak not running for re-election is his stepping down. An orderly transition is something which needs the departing body to impart it's business, records, policy goals, legal matters, foreign policy, and military command onto the new body. It's a process, not a stoning.
Because they openly support the protestors?
Could they have pulled their creds because they were supporting the mob? What right does a news organization have to preach revolution or sedition? I do not condone the heavy handed tactics of Mubarak, but something is terribly askew in the world.
Soros and his minions are taking notes for similar street “activities” here in the US.
I think part of the issue is
wasn’t Mubarak stepping aside in September anyway?
wasn’t Gamal, his son, running in September?
That is how I understood things and Gamal was anticipating taking over where his father left off.
For this reason I can understand why the protesters don’t want to agree to elections under the old dictator, but I don’t think they understand completely what they are trading in for the new regime.
This is just so ultimately sad for the people.
FOX Business - ATM’s are being refilled.
Why is it that when americans become emotional in their information processing, they no longer ask logical questions? They focus on the designed emotional distraction. It makes americans so easy to con.
They did’nt Al Jazeera actually presented it as is, they have had on Mubarak supporters and anti Gov supporters, quite balanced. Mubarak does not seem to like the fact that anyone is streaming any of this.
OTOH, if this were happening in Washington, it would be a most encouraging indicator of current testosterone levels in American males.
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