Action ... http://www.nydailynews.com/news/wor...s-21-death-stadium-disaster-article-1.1248449 & reaction http://www.nypost.com/p/news/international/people_killed_in_riots_in_egypt_7GfZH0brUTnKgYCRURBwkJ
New elections, Islamist will probably win, seculars will burn shit. Is not the fault of the Brotherhood that the right has better organization and are better prepared for elections and the left is a bunch of divided power hungry groups that only agree on not wanting the Islamist in power. http://news.yahoo.com/divided-egypt-opposition-attacks-mursi-election-call-082852353.html But is not all good news for the brotherhood. http://news.yahoo.com/dispatch-cairo-egypts-president-under-attack-sides-144208195.html In Tunisia http://news.yahoo.com/tunisia-islamist-party-chooses-prime-minister-160722224.html http://news.yahoo.com/tunisian-secularists-protest-against-islamist-pm-170933771.html
If Morsi's pissing off both the ultra-conservative Salafi AND the other side it sounds like he's maybe getting it right. Still, early days yet I suppose. We won't know how it's gone down for another decade or so.
Yes, I blame the opposition more than anything, they do not want to recognize that the Islamist parties are more popular than they are, and are not willing to form a real democratic opposition and just want to protest and boy cut elections.
The opposition has some legitimate concerns about their own individual and collective freedoms, under an Islamic government. Imposing sharia law may have grave consequences for Copts, already subject to discrimination, as well as secular & moderate Muslim Egyptians. Some of Morsi's decrees give reason for pause.
Blasphemy laws as a political tool. http://news.yahoo.com/egyptians-targeted-blasphemy-charges-063917101.html
No matter who wins, we have to wait and see how they act. Even those elected as moderates or reformers, can quickly become tyrannical.
I was in a cab last week and the driver was from Tunisa. He had the radio on and they were talking about the election and I commented on it and was glad to see it happen. he was shocked that I even knew where his country of orgin was let alone that I knew that they were the first to change and have a peaceful change at that. Had a really good conversation with him about it all and I wish their nation all the best going forward.
Had to train was running late and had to go from LaSalle St. station over to Mich ave by the river and only had 12 mins
Tried to update a thread on the main forum, which was then co-opted by nostalgic old-timers: http://www.aljazeera.com/news/middl...alek-football-game-cairo-150208184916816.html Despite the carnage, the game was played: http://www.cnn.com/2015/02/09/africa/egypt-soccer-violence/
There are posters in this sub-forum whose posts are normally predictable but I have no idea what their opinions on this row about Qatar would be. Since they've not posted yet maybe they've not been told.
50 years after the Israeli victory in 1967, the Arabs have victoriously united against the Arabs. clap clap clap. All this while the Iranian proceed with their imperial parade throughout the fertile crescent. Egypt, the most heavily populated Arab country, is close to explode under the GCC (excluding Qatar) backed Sisi dictatorship while Libya, Iraq, Syria, Lebanon and Yemen are shredded apart by wars and militias.