Dec 9, 2012 No Comments ›› Chuck Biscuits
(Reuters) - A concession offered by President Mohamed Mursi failed to placate opponents who accused him on Sunday of plunging Egypt deeper into crisis by refusing to postpone a vote on a constitution shaped by Islamists. Islamists say they see the referendum as sealing a democratic transition that began when a popular uprising toppled Hosni Mubarak ...
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Dec 9, 2012 No Comments ›› Chuck Biscuits
CAIRO, (SANA): Egyptian President Dr Mohamed Morsi annulled a controversial decree issued last month. Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi backed down in a dire political crisis marked by weeks of street protests, after the powerful army gave an ultimatum to him and the opposition to sit down for talks. The Islamist leader annulled a controversial decree issued last ...
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Dec 8, 2012 No Comments ›› Infidel
CAIRO (AP) — Egypt's military warned on Saturday of "disastrous consequences" if the crisis that sent tens of thousands of protesters back into the streets is not resolved, signaling the army's return to an increasingly polarized and violent political scene. The military said serious dialogue is the "best and only" way to overcome the nation's deepening ...
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Dec 7, 2012 No Comments ›› Dinah Tellya
Q: "Why can’t it be argued that President Morsi, by issuing this decree, essentially inflamed a situation that was already tense because the Coptic Christian minority, for one, didn’t feel that its interests were being respected, that there were some legitimate objections being raised by those in the secular opposition that they were hoping that ...
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Dec 7, 2012 No Comments ›› Pat Dollard
Excerpted from The Daily Caller: The New York Times Cairo bureau chief David K. Kirkpatrick insists that the Muslim Brotherhood is a “moderate, regular old political force,” despite Muslim Brotherhood-backed Egyptian President Mohammad Morsi’s recent power grab and the Islamist organization’s radical views. Kirkpatrick called into Hugh Hewitt’s radio show Wednesday from Egypt as the Brotherhood’s ...
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Dec 6, 2012 No Comments ›› Chuck Biscuits
Clear difference between Morsi's speech now and Mubarak's on Jan. 28, 2011: backdrop now red, not blue. twitter.com/RobertMackey/s…— Robert Mackey (@RobertMackey) December 6, 2012 Excperted from Business Insider: Mohamed Morsi, President of Egypt, has given a long speech that sought to calm tensions in the country, where a spat over the power of government over the ...
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Dec 6, 2012 No Comments ›› Pat Dollard
Excerpted from The New York Times: CAIRO — Resignations rocked the government of President Mohamed Morsi on Thursday as tanks from the special presidential guard took up positions around his palace and the state television headquarters after a night of street fighting between his Islamist supporters and their secular opponents that left at least ...
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Dec 6, 2012 No Comments ›› Chuck Biscuits
CAIRO — The Egyptian military’s elite Republican Guard deployed tanks and barbed-wire barricades around the presidential palace to restore order Thursday after violent clashes between supporters and opponents of President Mohamed Morsi rocked his fledgling government. Thousands of Morsi supporters from the powerful Muslim Brotherhood organization heeded the Guard’s mid-afternoon deadline to withdraw from the area, ...
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Dec 5, 2012 No Comments ›› Chuck Biscuits
Excerpted from NBC News: Walaa Al Momtaz doesn’t leave her home for up to five days at a time. The neatly veiled 22-year-old misses her friends at City University, where she studies English and German, but what she faces upon leaving her house defeats her. Men and boys constantly harass and threaten Al Momtaz on the ...
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Dec 4, 2012 No Comments ›› Pat Dollard
(Reuters) - Egyptian police battled thousands of protesters outside President Mohamed Mursi's palace in Cairo on Tuesday, prompting the Islamist leader to leave the building, presidency sources said. Officers fired teargas at up to 10,000 demonstrators angered by Mursi's drive to hold a referendum on a new constitution on December 15. Some broke through police lines ...
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Dec 2, 2012 No Comments ›› Dinah Tellya
Excerpted from The Daily Mail: Egypt's ruling party is paying gangs of thugs to sexually assault women protesting in Cairo's Tahrir Square against President Mohamed Morsi, activists said. They also said the Muslim Brotherhood is paying gangs to beat up men who are taking part in the latest round of protests, which followed a decree ...
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Dec 2, 2012 No Comments ›› Dinah Tellya
Excerpted from NBC News: This was the place where the revolution began: the roundish square where Egyptians celebrated Mubarak's fall. This is where they are shouting on bullhorns again, outraged because they say the Muslim Brotherhood has stolen the revolution and is railroading though a constitution that could lock in Muslim Brotherhood rule for 50 years, ...
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Dec 2, 2012 No Comments ›› Chuck Biscuits
headline photo: dec. 2, 2012: riot police form a cordon as several thousand supporters of islamist president mohammed morsi surround the supreme court on sunday. (ap) Excerpted from Fox News: Egypt's top court suspended its work indefinitely to protest "psychological and physical pressures" after supporters of the Islamist president prevented judges from entering the courthouse Sunday ...
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Dec 1, 2012 No Comments ›› Dinah Tellya
(Reuters) - Egypt's President Mohamed Mursi called a December 15 referendum on a new constitution, hoping to end protests over a decree expanding his powers, as at least 200,000 of his Islamist supporters rallied in Cairo on Saturday. Approval of the constitution drafted by an assembly stacked with Mursi's Islamist allies will override the November 22 ...
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Dec 1, 2012 No Comments ›› Pat Dollard
Breitbart TV: Egyptian feminist activist Nawal El Saadawi joined the "Smiley and West Show" on December 1st to talk about the Arab spring and the United States' involvement in bringing it to an end. Saadawi, who was actively involved in the revolution, tells progressives Tavis Smiley & Cornel West that the Obama administration and, specifically ...
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Dec 1, 2012 No Comments ›› Infidel
(Reuters) - At least 200,000 Islamists demonstrated in Cairo on Saturday in support of President Mohamed Mursi, who is rushing through a constitution to try to defuse opposition fury over his newly expanded powers. "The people want the implementation of God's law," chanted flag-waving demonstrators, many of them bused in from the countryside, who choked streets ...
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Nov 30, 2012 No Comments ›› Infidel
Excerpted from The Christian Science Monitor: Egypt's constituent assembly worked through the night to finish voting on Egypt's new constitution, finalizing its work early this morning and sent the contentious document to the president, who will call a national referendum on the constitution within two weeks. President Mohamed Morsi's allies made the surprise move to finish ...
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Nov 30, 2012 No Comments ›› Infidel
(Reuters) - Tens of thousands of Egyptians protested against President Mohamed Mursi on Friday after an Islamist-led assembly raced through approval of a new constitution in a bid to end a crisis over the Islamist leader's newly expanded powers. "The people want to bring down the regime," they chanted in Tahrir Square, echoing the chants that ...
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Nov 28, 2012 No Comments ›› Infidel
Related: Egypt’s President Makes Himself Dictator Excerpted from National Review Online: After the Egyptian president claimed unprecedented powers, prompting protests by various moderate and liberal factions across the country, the U.S. State Department has this to say: As we called for last week, when confronted with concerns about the decree that he issued, ...
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Nov 28, 2012 No Comments ›› Infidel
(Reuters) - A Cairo court on Wednesday sentenced to death seven Egyptian Christians tried in absentia for participating in an anti-Islam video that was released on the Internet in September and prompted violent protests in Muslim countries. "The seven accused persons were convicted of insulting the Islamic religion through participating in producing and offering a ...
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Nov 28, 2012 No Comments ›› Infidel
(Reuters) - Hundreds of demonstrators were in Cairo's Tahrir Square for a sixth day on Wednesday, demanding that President Mohamed Mursi rescind a decree they say gives him dictatorial powers, while two of Egypt's top courts stopped work in protest. Egypt's Cassation and Appeals courts said they would suspend their work until the constitutional court rules ...
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Nov 27, 2012 No Comments ›› Pat Dollard
CBS News: More than 200,000 people packed Cairo's central Tahrir square on Tuesday, chanting against Egypt's Islamist president in a powerful show of strength by the opposition demanding Mohammed Morsi revoke edicts granting himself near autocratic powers. With the mass protests in Tahrir and in several other cities — comparable in size to those during last ...
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Nov 27, 2012 No Comments ›› Pat Dollard
Los Angeles Times — President Mohamed Morsi suggested Monday that he would scale back broad powers he assumed last week but failed to appease Egypt's judiciary, which would still lack oversight of some institutions including the Islamist-led assembly drafting a new constitution. Morsi and senior judges met for nearly five hours to discuss differences resulting from ...
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Nov 26, 2012 No Comments ›› Pat Dollard
Excerpted from Fox News: A resolution is imminent to the political crisis stemming from the Egyptian president's move to give himself sweeping new powers, the country's justice minister said Monday. Hours before President Mohammed Morsi was due to meet members of the Supreme Judiciary Council to discuss the package of decrees announced Thursday, Ahmed Mekki spoke ...
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Nov 26, 2012 No Comments ›› Chuck Biscuits
Related: Egypt’s President Makes Himself Dictator Excerpted from The Daily Caller: White House officials remained silent during the extended Thanksgiving weekend, as Egypt’s pro-democracy groups called on President Barack Obama to condemn Thursday’s power grab by their country’s Islamist president, Mohammed Morsi. Morsi decreed Nov. 22 that his pronouncements and edicts were beyond the reach of judicial ...
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