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Egyptians Turn Against Liberal Protesters
Wall Street Journal ^ | August 2, 2011 | YAROSLAV TROFIMOV

Posted on 08/02/2011 1:06:07 PM PDT by rightwingintelligentsia

CAIRO—Mobs of ordinary Egyptians joined with soldiers to drive pro-democracy protesters from their encampment in Tahrir Square here Monday, showing how far the uprising's early heroes have fallen in the eyes of the public.

Six months after young, liberal activists helped lead the popular movement that ousted President Hosni Mubarak, the hard core of these protesters was forcibly dispersed by the troops. Some Egyptians lined the street to applaud the army. Others ganged up on the activists as they retreated from the square that has come to symbolize the Arab Spring.

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Monday's turmoil in Tahrir followed a massive Friday demonstration on the same square by hundreds of thousands of Islamists, who called for transforming Egypt into an Islamic state—and railed against the liberal and secular youths who had helped motivate millions to rise up against Mr. Mubarak.

The Islamists' numbers dwarfed those of the activists who have re-occupied Cairo's central square since July 8, criticizing the slow pace of reforms, calling for police accountability and pressing for speedier trials of Mr. Mubarak and his associates. The Tahrir sit-in was organized by the April 6 Movement, one of the uprising's main planners, other youth groups and relatives of protesters killed in the weeks before Mr. Mubarak's ouster on Feb. 11.

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs
KEYWORDS: egypt; muslimbrotherhood

1 posted on 08/02/2011 1:06:14 PM PDT by rightwingintelligentsia
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

Surprise! Salafis radicals and autocrats once again trying to hijack a revolution! This has never happened before, except in Iran, and China, Russia, France....


2 posted on 08/02/2011 1:08:32 PM PDT by Shadow44
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

Al-Qaeda Summer has arrived.


3 posted on 08/02/2011 1:10:09 PM PDT by Clint N. Suhks (Liz Cheney/Sarah Palin 2012 "the peas are in 0bama's court")
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To: Clint N. Suhks

Where, oh, where is Anderson Cooper?


4 posted on 08/02/2011 1:12:21 PM PDT by rightwingintelligentsia (Be careful of believing something just because you want it to be true.)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

That good ol’ Hope & Change mantra woks every time it’s tried.......


5 posted on 08/02/2011 1:13:38 PM PDT by Red Badger ("Treason doth never prosper.... What's the reason? Why if it prosper, none dare call it treason.")
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To: Clint N. Suhks

I blame the liberals. They knew they were outnumbered and outmatched in terms of organization, and yet they’ve done nothing but fight each other and the military. Moderates are always the first victim in consolidation, and they’ve done little to defend themselves, even with the specter of Iran’s revolution staring straight in their faces. Time to find a (Coptic preferably) general or military officer that we can work with.


6 posted on 08/02/2011 1:16:41 PM PDT by Shadow44
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

Once again useful idiots unleash a chaos upon themselves and others from which there will only be suffering and death.


7 posted on 08/02/2011 1:17:19 PM PDT by theBuckwheat
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

Arab Spring becoming the radical Muslim Summer. Surprise, 0bummer!


8 posted on 08/02/2011 1:17:52 PM PDT by luvbach1 (Stop Obamania in 2012)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

Israel, stay vigilant.


9 posted on 08/02/2011 1:21:12 PM PDT by Signalman
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To: rightwingintelligentsia
I am Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini.

And I approve this message.

10 posted on 08/02/2011 1:25:00 PM PDT by BBell
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To: luvbach1

So is this what the speech in Cairo by the chosen Zero leads to?


11 posted on 08/02/2011 1:43:54 PM PDT by tflabo ( to have been selected)
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To: tflabo

Once again the Mencheviks meet the Bolsheviks with predictable results.


12 posted on 08/02/2011 2:14:16 PM PDT by p. henry
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

Meet the new boss, same as the old boss.


13 posted on 08/02/2011 2:43:24 PM PDT by La Enchiladita (I said it, I meant it and I represent it.)
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To: BBell

The Ayatollah had Sean Connery’s eyes.


14 posted on 08/02/2011 3:48:44 PM PDT by Steely Tom (Obama goes on long after the thrill of Obama is gone)
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