[little jeremiah]

You apparently haven’t been reading about this, then.

It is more modern secularist Egyptians that do not want Islamic rule that are massing in these protests. Same thing as in Turkey. 14 to 17 million in Egypt today.

TB2 has a good thread about what’s going on:

http://www.timebomb2000.com/vb/showthread.php?431180-The-Egyptian-Riot-Thread-Please-post-any-info-concerning-what-s-happening-there./page3

[Olog-hai]

Then, like in Iran, those secularists are grossly outnumbered by the Islamists. And Obama is not on the secularists’ side, preferring to side with the Muslim Brotherhood. The MB has been doing counterprotests designed to neutralize the secularists. (Forgot about the big Tahrir Square chant already?)

Also, the Islamists are quite entrenched in Turkey. The age of Atatürk is dead.