Syrian officials walked out on the Non-Aligned Movement Summit today in Tehran when Egyptian President Mohamed Mursi, as part of his first high profile overseas mission, praised Syria’s rebel movement for a “revolution against an oppressive regime.”
Syria’s delegation included Foreign Minister Walid al-Moallem, and Mursi’s comments went on to demand that the world united against Assad, while praising various rebellions across the region, though conspicuously he avoided mentioning the Bahrani revolt.
Moallem slammed the comments, warning that Mursi’s speech might incite further violence in the ongoing Syrian Civil War. Mursi was said to have left Iran almost immediately after his speech, though he apparently briefly met with Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
Mursi’s speech was far afield of reports earlier this week that he was trying to bring pro-Assad Iran and pro-rebel Turkey together for some sort of negotiated settlement that would end the violence.
What a jackass mursi is.
What can one expect from a leader who is also a member of and beholden to the Muslim Brotherhood, and is the recipient for his country of a two billion dollar "no strings attached" check from the kingdom of Qatar, one of the principal funders of the conflict in Syria?
Forget the 2 billion for Qatar. How about the 2 billion from the US? That's the one that counts. I doubt that Qatar is looking after Isreal's best interests…the US, well not to much.
Mursi is speaking for people around the world, especially for Sunni Muslims. No one in the media understands enough about Islam to catch other things he said that would have offended Iranian leaders probably more than supporting the Syrian people against Assad. His going there and speaking the truth has strengthened his position among Egyptians and a lot of others; if he keeps it up, he'll have a hero status like that of Erdogan. Of course, all this is lost on a media that is oblivious.
Where exactly does Erdogan enjoy "hero status"? Certainly not with the Kurds. Forget Israel! As for the Arabs…LOL! They had him pegged right on day one when they saw him join NATO (not that there's anything wrong with that, of course). So, who is it again that think he's a hero? Oh, maybe his family at the dinner table.
Yes, among Arabs and the other billion Sunni Muslims. Media coverage in the West (and at antiwar.com) is oblivious to the reality in the Middle East, but Erdogan is seen as standing up to Israel (in the Mavi Marmara incident, when he walked off the stage after having to listen to garbage from Shimon Peres, etc.), standing up for Muslims in places like Myanmar (where his wife visited recently and was seen in many moving photos with the Rohingyas), etc. Arabs respect him and joke that he's the best Arab leader (a joke because Turks aren't Arabs).
Assad would be wise to cut a deal and flee to Iran. Can't stop a train.
Our man in Cairo, Mur$i. First on his agenda when returning home is banning the word Monica.
Do you think everything revolves around the U.S.? The U.S, is not the be-all and end-all…
I can see his true colors.
"Egypt's Mohamed Morsy called President Bashar al-Assad's government "an oppressive regime that has lost its legitimacy." He said backing the opposition is "a moral obligation, and a political and strategic step that comes in our belief of a new independent Syria."
As we said before, anything and anyone and any government that have something to do with Socialism of some kind needs to be destroyed, that was Bill Clinton, Madeline Albright and EU NEO Fascism governments when they started Balkan war accusing the socialist system of Yugoslavia with every kind of lies that they could, in the end they divided an independent country and a social political system.
In this regard they even slept with Sunny MUslims from Kosovo Hashim Taci' the head of the Balkan Mafia to achieve their goal. We also indicated that they are dividing the world by the region so that independency of any country is to be limited.
The Egypt muslim brotherhood although on the surface shows its "religious kind of democracy", but in reality is against all kind of functioning democracy or socialism in every aspects of the word, therefore is either looking to be recognized as the NEW POWER in the region by China and Russia and US or wanting to show what they want to replace the Syrian governing system with, a sectarian Sunny Muslims as in Turkey; therefore Morsi is going after Assad wanting for Iran and Turkey to solve their PROBLEMS…?
It is also possible that Morsy been told by Saudis and UAE that they will not get any penny out of them unless they support their cause wanting to obey Hillary Clinton idea in changing the Syrian government to something like them, a religious sectarian regime based on the law of Islam.
Look, we said that from day one, all this is a religious wars, from Balkan to Afghanistan to Iraq and all over Africa, is not about democracy nor is about people, the very same systems are working for Vulture capitalism one way or the other, look at Libya, the war was about democracy and being independent, there is no freedom nor there is a democracy, so it goes for Tunis and Etc. Libya has become another US and NATO militarism base, Tunis and Morocco having the social political problems, and in US and EU police are dressed in military gears – uniform and U are watched every where you go, now tell me what happened to Western Democracy. For you people to understand, when Obama criticize Bush era regarding Iraq is because they wanted to have Sunny Muslims to be in charge, in another word they wouldn't mind keeping Saddam Hussein then letting Iraq to be ruled by Shi'iet Muslims so Iran would have more of saying, that is not the US nor EU style in politics, nations needs to live as in Balkan, divided and slaved to German and France and English Vulture Capitalism, but then again, look where EU is today, a bankrupt, divided nations with centralized economic and social politics systems with NATO in place which is as bankrupt as EU.
As usual, I'm amazed at how far from reality the opinions here are. Do you actually think Mursi has to be told by the Saudis – or Hillary Clinton! or anyone else – to support the Syrian people against Bashar?
From the standpoint of the Muslim Brotherhood, and pretty much any Muslim who wants to see Islam grow and re-bloom in the Middle East and elsewhere, the secular government of Assad must go. Once he is out of the way, that leaves a power vacuum just waiting for a well-organized political entity to step in and take the reins of power- and that entity is (you guessed it) the Muslim Brotherhood, which seeks to establish shari'a-governed nations in a step-by-step program. As a Muslim, I am all for this as long it can be done responsibly and with knowledgeable and restrained leaders put in place. Sadly, though, in today's world this isn't going to happen without much upheaval and bloodshed as undoubtedly one faction or another will resist the inevitable.
What I find interesting, though, is the US support of the rebels in Syria knowing exactly what the outcome is going to be- another "Islamist" state right on Israel's border!
From the standpoint of the Muslim Brotherhood, and pretty much any Muslim who wants to see Islam grow and re-bloom in the Middle East and elsewhere, the secular government of Assad must go. Once he is out of the way, that leaves a power vacuum just waiting for a well-organized political entity to step in and take the reins of power- and that entity is (you guessed it) the Muslim Brotherhood, which seeks to establish shari'a-governed nations in a step-by-step program. As a Muslim, I am all for this as long it can be done responsibly and with knowledgeable and restrained leaders put in place. Sadly, though, in today's world this isn't going to happen without much upheaval and bloodshed as undoubtedly one faction or another will resist the inevitable.
I do wonder, though, at the US support of the 'rebels' knowing full well that their winning will ultimately result in another "Islamist" state right next door to Israel- I wonder how that squares with Israel's security we're all paying for.
Long time ago I said you are one of those double face Muslim Brotherhood changing your name to John Muhammad fooling people by all kind of known and unknown method "wanting to see Islam grow and re-bloom in US" or as you pout it in Middle east. What is not needed in Middle east or for that matter in US is the Bloom of another Islamic State or region or for that matter the Islamic world, which is the subjects of any Islamic sects and for that matter religious in general. Why because Saudis cannot effort to pay for an Islamic world but US and EU can use and abuse them for their geopolitical gain – interests. After all the soft said but deadly reasons for argument is out and is hard to believe that you would expect the facts that you lied when you respond saying that you are NOT affiliated nor a friend of Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt. But now you want to see the Muslim Brotherhood take over in Syria, is that goes for Iraq and Iran and later Russia as well, how about Afghanistan and Pakistan, or better yet, how about USA, so god help you Barak Hussein Obama…
Just curious – are you from the Middle East? How do you decide what is or not needed in the Middle East? Why shouldn't Muslims have an Islamic state? The Muslim Brotherhood is not a terrorist movement; it's a social and political movement.
(I don't know who John Muhammad is, but if he wanted to fool you, he would have picked a name other than 'Muhammad', wouldn't he?)
Good poodle, good poodle! Representing his masters' best interests already.
Though Mursi didn't mention Bahrain, the Iranian interpreter stuck it in, replacing his 'Syria' (when talking about the 'Arab spring') with 'Bahrain'. The interpreter made several deliberate changes and omissions so that anyone watching or listening to Iranian media got a distorted idea of what Mursi said.