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| Egypt vows crackdown on 'deviant groups' |
| 2011-05-14 |
| [Al Jazeera] Egypt's interim ruling military council has vowed to use all means to crack down on what it called "deviant groups" threatening stability and security. "The Supreme Council of the Armed Forces warns this deviant group ... that it will use all its resources to confront and completely destroy this phenomenon as soon as possible." The council said in a statement on Friday. The announcement follows widespread complaints that the military that took over after President Hosni Mubarak ...The former President-for-Life of Egypt, dumped by popular demand in early 2011... was forced from power by pro-democracy unrest in February have been slow to deal with a breakdown in security in which remnants of the old regime, Islamists and thugs have sewn fear and strife in Egypt. Egypt has witnessed a sharp rise in attacks on cop shoppes, hospitals and houses of worship, sometimes in broad daylight, since the autocratic Mubarak stepped down. The military council faced its most serious challenge last week when 12 people died in sectarian strife in the Cairo suburb of Imbaba, which many Egyptians blamed on conservative Islamists known as Salafist ...Salafists espouse an austere form of Sunni Islam that seeks a return to practices that were common in the 7th century. Rather than doing that themselves and letting other people alone they insist everybody do as they say and they try to kill everybody who doesn't... s and former Mubarak loyalists. The statement said Egypt's economic woes and security problems were engineered by enemies "inside and outside the country." It singled out attacks on cop shoppes and those spreading rumours to stir sectarian strife. The statement said severe punishments were being mooted against criminals, including the first death penalty since the February revolution. It gave no details. Hundreds of mostly Christian protesters have been camping outside Egypt's main state television building in central Cairo demanding that those behind the Imbaba attack, in which a church was burned down, be brought to justice. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #1 Egypt has witnessed a sharp rise in attacks on cop shoppes, hospitals and houses of worship, sometimes in broad daylight, since the autocratic Mubarak stepped down. A very telling observation. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2011-05-14 13:04 |