Failure to unite Egyptians
Posted on 04/07/2013 7:45:50 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
Protesters battled police in several Egyptian cities on Saturday, with at least eight people reported injured, after rallies to mark the anniversary of a key opposition movement turned violent.
In central Cairo, police fired tear gas at hundreds of protesters outside the Superior Court, which also houses the offices of the public prosecutor who had opened investigations against several dissidents.
Protesters were chanting "The people want to topple the regime. Down, down with Morsi!”
"We are Muslims but we want a civilian state," said a protester on the Cairo march.
Live television showed footage of protesters chanting, throwing stones at police in armoured vehicles, amid burning tyres on a main road near the court. The police fired heavy volleys of tear gas.
At least eight people were wounded in the clashes in Cairo and in the southern province of Fayoum, the official MENA news agency reported.
Police also fired tear gas at protesters in the coastal city of Alexandria and in the Nile Delta city of Mahalla, where demonstrators attacked a police station with petrol bombs, MENA reported.
Opponents and supporters of the Muslim Brotherhood attacked each other with stones and fireworks in Alexandria, MENA said.
The rallies were organised to mark the fifth anniversary of the April 6 protest movement, which took off after a deadly police crackdown on a labour strike in Mahalla on April 6, 2008.
The Mahalla clashes marked an escalation in the burgeoning protest movement against long-time strongman Hosni Mubarak, eventually overthrown in an early 2011 popular uprising.
Hailed as heroes in the aftermath of Mubarak's overthrow, the youth-led group, which splintered into two factions, clashed with the military that ruled Egypt between Mubarak's ouster and President Mohamed Morsi's election in June.
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“We are Muslims but we want a civilian state,”
These are the people America should be sending arms to.
Not the rebels in Syria.
Well will Obama give an encouraging speech via jumbotron in Tahrir square like he did when they were pushing Mubarak out?
” ‘We are Muslims but we want a civilian state,’ said a protester on the Cairo march.”
So, when is Obama going to come out and say “Morsi must go!” ?
I’ll let you guys hold your breath waiting - I’m not in that good of shape anymore.
Somehow I don’t think the density of protesters here matched the big crowds in Tahrir Square chanting “To Jerusalem we go—martyrs in the millions” . . .
Well that didn’t take long. Last year’s Arab Spring is going to become this year’s Arab Long Hot Summer. Couldn’t happen in a more deserving part of the planet. May they all decimate each other.
The Brotherhood will not let this happen! they will be worse than the old dictator—its like Stalin was worse than the Czar.
zer0 set these people up with his first speech. My bet is zer0 will set them up again. zer0’s buddies from the moslem brotherhood will be grateful. zer0 does not do anything for those wanting Freedom. Freedom is not part and parcel of zer0’s agenda. Beware media, you are in bed with a demon.
Well that didn’t take long. Last year’s Arab Spring is going to become this year’s Arab Long Hot Summer.
Aw, nuts. Is this going to show up as "further proof of global warming?"
The Egyptian economy went into the gutter after the Revolution. This is the core reason why the liberal opposition is gaining support on the streets.
The irony is that the faltering economy is being wholly blamed on the Muslim Brotherhood, which campaigned so hard for the Presidency but now is reaping the consequences of assuming responsibility for Egypt.
Had it been a liberal President that had been elected, it would’ve been he who took the blame for the deteriorating Egyptian economy. Losing may just have been a blessing in disguise.
The Egyptian situation hasn’t stabilized since Mub’k’s overthrow, and the economy is s***; the Brotherhood will have to contend with internal divisions and a lack of cash — the state sponsors of worldwide jihad have too many large projects going on at the same time, and the Brotherhood is most aligned with Iran, something the Gulf states will not and can not permit to go on.
There will be a lot of bloodshed — the MB won’t go quietly, or really at all without a fight.
How do you know Morsi is not a liberal? liberals are great at lying and ruining economies. Take for instance our liberals running the show here in the U.S. of A.
You know, I’ve just really stopped caring what happens in that part of the world. Wake me when the last two muslims are trying to knife each other in the streets.
Think I may take a nap too.
Oh the brotherhood is safe, hell we sent them tanks, jets and cash.
I was kind of hoping for another camel charge like at the first protest.
That’s not their intent.
Let them eat Matzo.
F em.
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