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| No emergency law in Egypt, for now | |
| 2013-03-27 | |
[Al Ahram] President Mohamed Morsi said that if he has to "impose exceptional measures to restore domestic order" he will do so, emphasising that he "is afraid" he might have to.
A few hours after the president's speech, in which he also accused the media of inciting violence, Media Production City (MPC) in Sixth October City on Sunday was besieged by Islamist protesters who came to condemn what they perceived as anti-Islamist bias in the Egyptian private media. A number of television stars and opposition figures were both verbally and physically attacked at the gates of the media complex. The sit-in in Sixth October gave more reasons for Morsi's opponents to believe that his speech was a green light to his supporters and that his words were not only threats but rather a sign that more "exceptional measures" are about to be imposed. "What we are witnessing now reminds me of what happened in September 1981 under [former president] Sadat", human rights When they're defined by the state or an NGO they don't mean much... activist Gamal Eid told Ahram Online, comparing Morsi's possible crackdown to the massive police strike that Sadat ordered against the Egyptian opposition and in which more than 1,500 political figures from all parts of the political spectrum were put in prison. "At that time too President Sadat said that he was doing this for the good of the nation but the result was his liquidation, a lesson that Morsi does not seem to have learnt," Eid added. Morsi warned in his speech about those trying to "sabotage" the course of the January 25 revolution and Egypt's democratic transition and cause chaos. He also warned the political opposition against trying to give a political cover to violence. | |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #6 Thank you, Pappy, for filling in one of my many known unknowns. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2013-03-27 22:18 |
| #5 It was Saint Mark the Evangelist (also the traditional author of the Gospel of Mark.) But to our cretinous correspondent - they're all Moslem. |
| Posted by: Pappy 2013-03-27 20:48 |
| #4 It's Egypt. There are Copts there as well, you idiotic windbag. It's quite possible he didn't get to the part in the Wikipedia article that describes the Copts as Christian, converted by one of the twelve original Apostles (though someone must remind me which one). |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2013-03-27 16:35 |
| #3 There are Copts there as well Not for long. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2013-03-27 15:41 |
| #2 But then....everybody who lives there is a Moslem and they don't get to really vote... It's Egypt. There are Copts there as well, you idiotic windbag. |
| Posted by: Pappy 2013-03-27 13:43 |
| #1 Its going to go underground. If you can't solve it... it still doesn't go away. It just gets on a motorcycle and catches your Limousine in traffic with automatic 9mm. And puts a bomb in the private school( for the children of the Elite) dustbin or throws a grenade over the fence into the Regimental Club swimming pool on a summer day. Sorry about your family major. But then....everybody who lives there is a Moslem and they don't get to really vote...do they? ....get off the sidewalk peon... |
| Posted by: Threater Flusoper9823 2013-03-27 04:36 |