Egypt anti-government protests grow

[coley]

Not being funny, but wtf?

My take on the war in Syria, which is a bit of a derail but you did ask.

 

[butchersapron]

My take on the war in Syria, which is a bit of a derail but you did ask.

I didn't mate. I really really didn't. I asked you what made you think that what happening in egypt is a religious battle.

 

[teqniq]

Inside the still burning and still being looted MB HQ

 

[sihhi]

the jihadists are in power mate. One thing for certain is that there are NO Islamists on the streets calling for the downfall of Morsi

There are Islamists on the streets calling for Morsi to resign and form a national unity government for fresh elections. They're out there. Splinter elements from Al Watan and those who resigned from it - now an independent grouping - nationalist and Islamist - anti-privatisation, anti-IMF, anti-Western links, anti-army, anti-clampdown. They're not the ones who've looted the HQ, but some Islamists are there.

Watan and Noor as a whole are both pro-Morsi/MB/Freedom and Justice.

 

[coley]

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[butchersapron]

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Fish and chips from two years ago?

 

[coley]

Fish and chips from two years ago?

my mistake, and the bliddy phone won't stop ringing, anyway ill just follow on here and try to keep up

 

[treelover]

I've turned on Al Jazeera now

The BBC's Jim Bowen is currently at the pro-Morsi rally in Cairo:

bit late for a career change...

 

[treelover]

That a lot of people on the streets, well 'a lot' doesn't really do it justice but anyway here's couple of pix one from Cairo, the other from Alexandria:

would that compare with our 2003 anti-war demo?

 

[treelover]

Do you think it could end in an Algerian-style civil war? It's one possibility. It's too early to tell yet how they will react

Syria started out as a 'celebration of protest' young people, festival atmosphere..

 

[treelover]

This article is being widely read at the moment. It's a well informed item that lists the reasons why the Brotherhood in power failed:

https://www.facebook.com/khaled.fahmy3/posts/10151458378821360

sounds like the SWP...

 

[Divisive Cotton]

The army will be releasing a statement in the next few hours

 

[treelover]

crucial?

 

[butchersapron]

sounds like the SWP...

No it doesn't. Don't do this on this thread please.

 

[Divisive Cotton]

sounds like the SWP...

Why? What's the SWP got to do with events in Egypt? Khaled Fahmy is a respected author and Professor at the American University in Cairo

 

[butchersapron]

Governers resigning. All coming down.

 

[Divisive Cotton]

crucial?

I expect so. We'll find out

 

[treelover]

 

[treelover]

Why? What's the SWP got to do with events in Egypt? Khaled Fahmy is a respected author and Professor at the American University in Cairo

I mean the MB's M.O, nothing to do with the author.

 

[treelover]

bit late for a career change...

Its Jeremy Bowen

 

[butchersapron]

I mean the MB's M.O, nothing to do with the author.

That's an even worse point - how could the SWP have sidelined the military, wrote a new constitution etc. This is not needed on this tread.

 

[Casually Red]

I think its telling Morsi has been keeping a very low profile during all this . I reckon it could be curtains and he knows it . I hope it is, because he and his MB are a shower of bastards .

 

[Divisive Cotton]

The presidential spokesman has called for a press conference at 9pm Cairo time

 

[treelover]

Make me thy lyre, even as the forest is:
What if my leaves are falling like its own!
The tumult of thy mighty harmonies
Will take from both a deep, autumnal tone,
Sweet though in sadness. Be thou, Spirit fierce,
My spirit! Be thou me, impetuous one!
Drive my dead thoughts over the universe
Like wither'd leaves to quicken a new birth!
And, by the incantation of this verse,
Scatter, as from an unextinguish'd hearth
Ashes and sparks, my words among mankind!
Be through my lips to unawaken'd earth
The trumpet of a prophecy! O Wind,
If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?

Shelley

 

[Divisive Cotton]

in ten years of being a member of U75 it's something I've never done before but the ignore has been activated

 

[treelover]

Its catching, never looked back since I did it...

 

[Divisive Cotton]

SCARF statement has just been read...

I missed it on Al Jazeera

 

[Divisive Cotton]

They have given both sides 48 hours to sort themselves out... waiting for actual wording to be published

 

[treelover]

نازلي حسين ‏@nazlyhussein 13h
25 yr old shot dead today at mb hq was his mother's last son, after she lost one in 2011 Mohamed Mahmoud clashes &another less than a yr ago
Retweeted by Gigi Ibrahim

 

[Divisive Cotton]

Statement:

1. Egyptian security is threatened
2. Demonstrators: unprecedented, peaceful, admiral
3. The honourable people have been suffering without any response in kind
4. It is a necessity for all and each to embrace this honourable people
5. We iterate the demand to heed to the call of the people.
6. We give 48 hours for a solution to be found
7. If the demands of the people are not answered before this ultimatum...
8. Youth are honourably defending the revolution
9. Armed forces are still shouldering their patriotic responsibilities
10. May god save Egypt and its brave and honourable people