Posted on 02/02/2011 4:41:13 AM PST by sunmars
Update : battles have started.
There is a tense stand-off in the Egyptian capital's main square, after fights broke out between supporters and opponents of beleaguered President Hosni Mubarak.
Thousands of the president's supporters had surged into Cairo's Tahrir Square, dismantling barricades set up by anti-Mubarak groups.
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Having lived in Egypt, I wondered when the tradition of bussing thousands of government supporting Arab Socialist party members to Tahrir Square would occur. A major insult is to call an Egyptian a “gamous”, the poor plodding water buffalo. However, it is true that the Egyptian is not noted for his persistence. A perfect example was the Yom Kippur War when the Egyptian Army crossed the Suez Canal, forced an Israeli retreat, and then didn;t seem to know what to do next. Recall, that on the second day of major street presence the police disappeared from the street. I felt at the time that the Ministry of Interior forces were sitting back, taking pictures and writing names in their little black books. I thought then that there would be one hell of a lot of students breaking rocks in the Western Desert a year from now. While it appears that Mubarak is through, the military is not. And if one thinks they are ready to give up sixty years of perks to the Muslim Brotherhood, an institution that they have fought more on and off for sixty years, there seems to be a lot of wishful thinking. As for the presence of Muslim Brothers in the military, the Ikhwan begaan the infiltration of the military in the forties — see Anwar Sadat. By the mid nineteen fifties they had cleaned them out, and the military leadership has been en garde against the Brotherhood ever since. I have a hunch that a week from now people will ask, what happened to all the protestors?
The pro-Mubarak horse and camel charges into the crowds at Tahrir Square didn’t go so well. The protesters dismounted the riders and beat them.
Cooper would like an Egyptian prison!
Anderson Cooper is reporting that a couple more groups of ‘hundreds’ of Mubarak supporters are moving towards the square. Cooper and crew got away from crowd and have a higher vantage point.
I feel your pain. Some of my friendships have cooled considerably because of their continued support of barry HUSSEIN. I’m not questioning their salvation but it does make me see how people will be deceived by the anti-christ.
I feel like a thug myself for wanting Mubarak to stay in power until September so that a viable democratic, pro-western candidate can emerge and get organized well enough to have a chance to win.
Am I wrong?
I could see it coming a mile off, its dictatorship 101.
The journalists need to get up higher because they will not hesitate to silence them.
No. I also do not worship obama. On election night, I watched Cooper orgasm in his trousers praising, lauding, and worshipping obama. I, personally, have no use for him or any obama worshipping traitor. You do as you see fit.
Did you see the video from yesterday where a pro Mubarak supporter is running scared as all get up and firing his pistol in the air yesterday?
Silent Majority = Business owners, and people who have to work for a living.
The reality becomes the rub eventually. If the MB take over, the businesses, infrastucture, phone systems, retail stores, internet, and fuel distribution all become Soprano-like franchaises of the MB.
Egypt will be set back 100 years.
Anyone ask if the women will still be able to attend schools?
Agreed.
"Not to mention, let the Suez Canal and the SUMET pipeline fall into hostile Jihadi hands."
We shouldn't be dependent on a 19th century ditch or a pipeline carrying Arabian oil. It's idiocy that we have placed ourselves in a sort serfdom to Mohammedan oil interests and by extension, their geopolitical games and internecine battles.
"Oh, and don't forget the Iran Nuclear arms race. Imagine the MB having Nuclear weapons to distribute amongst the Islamofacsist World."
And I suppose you think it's the Iranians who are behind what's happening in Egypt? That's nonsense, though no doubt they think it's a good development...rather like having our young people die and the country go broke getting rid of their greatest enemy Saddam. Iran's ambitions are the same as the ambitions of Persia have been for 3000 years.
"It goes well beyond a small civil revolution."
There's nothing small about what is happening in Egypt, at least the Egyptian people don't seem to think so.
That was what I was hoping for, too.
The crazies Mubarak lot are digging up the actual street to get stones to throw.
I don't think so. I think you're correct. So, are WE wrong?
At the risk of angering my fellow Christians, I’m not looking at this in terms of the Anti-Christ, or Biblical prophecy. While I am INTERESTED in how everything lines up, I take very seriously the idea that no man will know the hour. So I don’t try to know.
Too many people have foretold the end of the world in their generation, and all of them were wrong. I don’t get mixed up in that.
HOWEVER... you have a good point. The kind of people we’re talking about are so EASILY swayed. It’s terrifying. And they’ve bought into the lies of Islam with such fervor!
Part of me knows I have to cut ties with them. The other part isn’t ready to. Eventually that choice will be made FOR me, I guess.
Anyone notice the violence didn’t start until Obamma gave his “inspiration” speech and his demand for Mubarak to step down immediately?
I guess the cops... uh.. I mean, "the members of the Cairo horse riding club, who were all willing to risk life and limb for the renowned patron of all things equestrian, Hosni Mubarak", didn't think that one through.
Right. If he was only younger, say three or four years of age ... But it is what it is ,so back to the billy goats.
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