It’s a testament to how screwed up of a place Egypt has become that a Sunday which saw 38 protesters suffocated to death in a police van could also reasonably be called a day of relative calm.
But that’s junta-ruled Egypt, with daily massacres and a toll that almost certainly reaches into the thousands for the past five days. Today’s toll was only kept down because, in the face of a military build-up at their planned protest site, a rally was cancelled.
Or at least postponed. The situation is far from resolved, and with junta PM Hazem el-Beblawi calling to outlaw the opposition and insisting “there will be no reconciliation,” the worst may still be to come in Egypt.
Military ruler Abdel Fattah el-Sisi also suggested the crackdown would continue, though facing growing Western condemnation he also sought the pretense of offering reconciliation to those who “don’t have blood on their hands.” The state media portrayed the situation as virtually resolved, and the protesters “beaten.”
That’s a mistake made time and again by dictatorships during the Arab Spring, who never seem to notice that massacring protesters just makes the following protests even bigger. Opposition leaders say that the rallies will continue throughout the week, and likely beyond, as they demand a return to civilian governance.
Get violent and High Society always wins,
for those with the most wealth can always
muster the most deadly force.
For non-violent disobedience is the name of the game,
with a nationwide strike an absolute force that no
government can long endure.
Muslims brotherhood is the illegitimate sons of Saudis, Sallafis, Wahhabis and other terrorists groups that are out there. They are the one that killing innocent Syrian people, they are the one killing innocents Christian's, they ate the ones killing iraqis, they were doing it before Egypt military takeover and they are doing it now.
You really are a relentless shill.
And your words are worth 57 P.
You do not know who is who in moslem world, so it seems to you all moslems are the same bag. To equate Brotherhood with Saudis, Salafists, Wahhabis and call them all terrorist groups — is a bad joke or just plain ignorance. Try to at least separate those that are funded and supported by Saudis, US, UK, and France — from others, and that would be a good start. Getting caught up with labels like "Al-Qaeda" is of no help, as unless you know the circumstances, you will not be able to distinglush "freelance" operatons, from false flag set up by Saudi Arabia and other special forces. And until you really grasp the role od Saudia, US, UK and France in building Salafism for nefarious purposes, you will never undestand Chechnya, Bosnia, Serbia, Kosovo, Syria, Libya, and today's Egypt. SALAFIS have toppled Morsi, and military is just a tool. The question is — can Salafi rank and file abandon fellow Egyptians to slaughter, or will they defy Saudi Arabia. Remains to be seen.
It turns out that the Saudi salafis have promised 13,000,000,000 to military over the next year. Why is that?
Look: what you people refuse to understand is that: few years ago the people of Egypt didn't have such ethnic nor religious problems by Muslims brotherhood burning down churches, nor in Syria Muslims to fight each other nor before the Iraq war there was any sectarian problems whatsoever. Such problems started by the west to make every country problems a "MESSIER" problem, this Neo politics is initiated by the US and EU governments wanting to divide nations along their ethnic and religious background.
Here, the beneficiary of all this sunny Muslims brotherhood and whatever their name might be is Saudi Arabia and UAE. USA and EU orchestrating, conducting and helping to give the entire Arabian peninsula to North Africa to be controlled by Saudis and UAE, they started with Libya, then Syria and now is Egypt to be divided by the Muslim brotherhood and for Saudis to control the country. Question is, would the Europeans or for that matter american people accept such sudden social political change in Germany, or Belgium, or France or New York or Dallas or Chicago?
This is 2013 entering 2014, people in Middle East nor northern African nations didn't sign up for Muslims brotherhood to start the shariah laws, their demand was for a functioning democracy and still is for a social functioning democracy to be adopted by their government, they didn't sign up for Saudis nor UAE to takeover their country and to plan for Arab nations invading Syria or Iraq.
When people have voted for a democratic elected government, they expect for their government to respect the social principals in democracy working for the people solving at home economic and social problems, it means that people looked upon the "DEMOCRATIC PROMISES" made by the elected government, yet people didn't vote for a totalitarian system to follow their votes for democracy, nor they signed up for Saudi or UAE or any other regime to dictate what needs to be done or is good for Egyptians, or Syrians or Iraqis and etc.
look: Obama promised everyone the rise of a social changes that American people had dreamed about for last 60 years, what did you get? Drone war with no healthcare attached, national and international surveillance with no guarantee of your freedoms nor your safety.
The concepts, the principals of democracy are different, the understanding of either concepts or the principals are depending of who uses the words, a religious democracy is not a democracy because the principals of a functioning democracy is NOT the ESSENCE nor the PRINCIPALS of any religious, nor Western democracy presenting the people's democracy but rather a "ROMAN" democracy presented by the few and for the few, and thats what you people refuse to understand.
Muslims brotherhood is a religious entity of Saudis and UAE, they heavily depend on Saudis and UAE economic and religious hands out, we have seen their inhuman actions both in Syria and Iraq, shariah law is the end of Muslims brotherhood "DEMOCRACY." Israel democracy is based on apartheid system is a entity of Zionism protected by the empire, it was the empire who ordered the killing of Jesus, but he was handed over by Zionism to be killed. For democracy to be killed you need to create tools, religious in Middle East is one of them.
mojo:
They are also the ones who won a fair election.
Too bad they resorted to an "American Style" pseudo-democracy instead of a parlimentary system where the prime minister is easily voted out immediately when he becomes unpopular.
Obama won a fair election too, based on the "American Roman style" democracy, he also promised many things but non is materialized. Based on Morsi understanding of a "religious style democracy" he also promised many things, hence both presidents lied about what they promised., and among other they used the word democracy while using it for personal gain at that moment in time. The Neo fascism in Sweden calling themselves "Neo Democrats", but the essence of their social political views are fascistic and comes from the old fascism in modernized version or style.
As in Turkey just few weeks back, in later time, when Morsi had cleared the path for "HIS religious democracy style" the present egyptians generals and liberals would have been prosecuted for "wanting to overthrow" the Morsi government, as the Sunny muslim political party in Turkey have done. That would be the beginning of a "SAUDI STYLE DEMOCRACY" with a totalitarian grip of the nation and that's where you need to see, that's where antiwar.com needs to look and educate the american people with. The political News have a reason when it happens, otherwise you just repeating the news. For democracy to happen you need a functioning system, you don't have it then is not a democracy to began with.
Morsi was very far from a totalitarian system he did not even control the military. The only things he had going for him was a constitution process, slight majority and finally a constitution that most people realized was going to need overhaul. Perhaps morsi dreamed of theocracy, but bottom line he did not have anything close to what it would take. On the other hand this entire desaster could still be negotiated to a peaceful conclusion. It would take consessions on each side. It will become clear very quickly that military is even less fit to leed than Morsi. The Egyptian people have worked so hard and deserve better.
Interesting note about 'reconciliation'. That was the term for achieving peace in S Africa by bringing to the light of justice, albeit without punitive sanction, the crimes of the oppressors who got unseated. Was this the hold Morsi thought he had on power, to threaten such disclosures if he didn't get his way with his governing? That helps explain why the junta was so supportive of the public opposition to Morsi. Now Mubarak walks!