Posted on 06/30/2013 4:39:23 PM PDT by kristinn
Anti-Mursi protests the biggest since Mubarak toppled
* Five dead, more than 200 injured in provincial towns
* Muslim Brotherhood HQ attacked, leader denounces "coup"
* Mursi says won't quit, renews offer to amend constitution (Updates death toll, presidential spokesman)
Millions of Egyptians flooded into the streets on the first anniversary of Islamist President Mohamed Mursi's inauguration on Sunday to demand that he resign in the biggest challenge so far to rule by his Muslim Brotherhood.
Waving national flags and chanting "Get out!", a crowd of nearly 500,000 massed in and around Cairo's central Tahrir Square in by far the largest demonstration since the 2011 uprising that overthrew Mursi's predecessor, Hosni Mubarak.
"The people want the fall of the regime!" they shouted, echoing the Arab Spring rallying cry that brought down Mubarak - this time yelling it not against an ageing dictator but against the first elected leader in Egypt's 5,000-year recorded history.
Huge protest rallies continued late into the night in a mostly festive atmosphere.
While the main protests were peaceful, five people were shot dead in clashes in the Nile valley towns of Assiut and Beni Suef and the oasis town of Fayoum. The Health Ministry said more than 200 were injured in clashes in several provincial towns.
A military source said as many as 14 million people in this nation of 84 million took part in Sunday's demonstrations in sweltering heat. There was no independent way to verify that estimate, which seemed implausibly high, but the armed forces used helicopters to monitor the crowds.
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Mursi is no Mubarak — he’ll fight the crowd.
When will Obama send troops to help Brother Mursi ?
God bless those standing up for their freedoms. If one wants to live under sharia law, then great, go for it. If one wants to force others to live under sharia law, then it’s not so great.
He already has. Last week he sent 600 troops to Egypt to assist the government.
Obama probably getting ready to drone-strike the protestors.
We gotta try this.
Obviously an encouraging sign. I remember seeing some poll that said about 30-40% of adult Egyptians could be called genuine moderates or people who don’t want a theocracy. But it does no good if they can’t control the army or the other people with the guns. Islamists like Morsi won’t go down quietly. There might be a lot more blood shed in Egypt’s future.
Is this Arab Summer?
He is insane.
Long Hot Arab Summer
It’s gonna take more than flag waving at this point.
Pitchforks and torches come to mind.
amen!
Now even the blind stupid dims will see what obumbler really is.
He has said many times that he is for democracy in the mid-east.
But is he really?
Not if he only helps the jehadists when they rise up.
Now that ordinary Egyptian citizens rise up, will he help?
Not on your life because his real love is the Muslim Brotherhood.
Either the Egyptian people had no idea how good they really had it under Mubarak, OR, had minimal involvement in the initial operation to riot and foment unrest as the demand and ouster of Mubarak was staged. But by whom?
That’s almost or is the whole population of Cairo.
Bammy so helped the middle class of Iraq a few years ago.
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