Posted on 05/16/2015 5:53:29 PM PDT by Paid_Russian_Troll
Just under three years ago, Mohammed Morsi assumed office as Egypt’s first freely elected head of state, a milestone in the “Arab Spring” struggle for democracy. On Saturday, the same Egyptian state condemned him to die. A court in Cairo has sentenced the former president to death for conspiring with foreign militants during a prison escape in 2011. The ruling comes one month after Morsi received a separate 20-year sentence for inciting violence against protesters while in office. Egyptian authorities have detained Morsi since his overthrow in July 2013.
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There are real Egyptians and then there are Arabs who live in Egypt. The two are not the same. One day it will be sorted out.
Ancient Egypt was able to feed itself plus a large portion of southern Europe.
Not so current Egypt. They cannot feed themselves and have no resources to speak of to trade for food. They had travel but that is bust now.
They have a huge population that can only be supported by tons of foreign aid. That’s not very sustainable or stable ... and they know it.
Egypt has to have oil somewhere under it.
Sprucing up the pyramids, opening up the gateway wormhole to the gamma quadrant...black people flying around the sky, inventing numbers and stuff.
Good for Egyptians.
Actually Egypt is one of the 2 countries in that region which is a ‘real country’ in a border sense & comparatively culturally too. The rest largely lost their original identity, after islam.
Maybe. But with a socialist government hovering around waiting to seize any discovery in the name of the common good who is going to spend money looking for it?
Hope not. Oil can be a curse.
Not only does Egypt have well-known oil reserves as I mentioned above, they have joint venture agreements of long standing with BP, Eni and Apache that they continue to honor.
Sounds like a plan to me. Obama does not like it. Hehehe
The article is written as if Morsi and the MB were bringing some great era of freedom and democracy to Egypt. They were actually, gradually corrupting all the country’s institutions and building a fundamentalist Islamic society that was beginning to resemble Iran.
Good riddance to Morsi and his MB gang.
Here’s a question. Did ISIS come on tje s ene after Morsi’s overthrow?
Saudi Arabia is quite a hellhole and rather poor for a nation which is so rich in energy. Their GDP per capita is around $20,000. On the other hand you are probably right. They could have been even worse without oil.
Quite a few in hot climate parts of a country have oil/crude reserves around the world in fact.
Jordan has natural resources too still to tap into & exploit.
SA is just as much of a basket case as Venezuela, imo. Just a matter of which govt we support and why..
But so far I don’t trust el sisi either. He appears to be a salafi sympathizers yet to fully reveal his hand.
THe whole article is a mish mash of liberal talking points, misstated history, and just plain dumbness. Other than that.....
A Christian Amen to that - I like the new president and he knows if he doesn’t straighten things out, he can kiss his tourist industry goodbye - big money there, too.
Genetically the present Muslim Egyptians would be near-identical to the present day Copts and almost certainly to the rural Egyptians of the late classical era.
The Egyptian rural population was extremely large at the time of the Arab conquest and there is no reason to think this changed the genes much. Cavalli-Sforzas rule about agricultural populations applies - invaders very rarely affect them much, and foreign rulers usually hang out in cities which are where populations went to die, and be swamped by newcomers from the country.
Invaders can change peoples religions and language. Changing genes is not so easy.
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