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Egypt: Morsi Supporters Protest Outside Cabinet
ABC News ^ | July 16, 2013 | HAMZA HENDAWI

Posted on 07/16/2013 4:27:04 PM PDT by Pan_Yan

Egypt's interim leader swore in a Cabinet on Tuesday that included women and Christians but no Islamists as the military-backed administration moved swiftly to formalize the new political order and present a more liberal face that is markedly at odds with the deposed president and his supporters.

The changes came at a time of deep polarization and violence in Egypt, including new clashes that killed seven people as part of the continuing bloodshed that has marked the days following the armed forces coup that swept President Mohammed Morsi from office and cracked down on the Muslim Brotherhood.

Egypt's military already wields great influence behind the scenes, and the army chief, Gen. Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi, who ousted Morsi on July 3, was given a promotion in the Cabinet. He became a first deputy prime minister in addition to keeping his post as defense minister.

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; Israel; News/Current Events; Russia; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: annepatterson; arabspring; egypt; israel; muslimbrotherhood; russia; waronterror
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To: manc

We don’t have 90% of the country living within a couple hours of the capitol and despite the blind joy in Egypt’s great transformation, its still a 90% muslim country with some temporary token govt officials.


21 posted on 07/16/2013 4:42:52 PM PDT by cripplecreek (REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
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To: cripplecreek

I been watching El Baradei out of the corner of my eye since his IAEA days leading the whole Iraqi nuclear peekaboo game.

I have a theory on what happened in Egypt. With Morsi in charge the country was suddenly running out of food, fuel and cash. Amazingly once Morsi was deposed the food and fuel reappeared and other Arab states started ponying up big bucks. Of course the military runs most of the economy. I think the Egyptian people got a good view of the back of the master’s hand.

El Baradei only fits in the military’s plans if he says what he’s supposed to and does very little. There’s a reason he hopped on a plan and cooled it in Europe for a few years after Mubarak fell.


22 posted on 07/16/2013 4:43:48 PM PDT by Pan_Yan (I believe in God. All else is dubious.)
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To: manc
Egyptians took to the streets and forced a dictator out while millions of Americans still have not marched on DC and camped out.

We have jobs (most of us), bills to pay and food on the shelves of every local store. And it's been that way for a long, long time. Are you posting from the Capitol lawn? Me neither.

23 posted on 07/16/2013 4:47:51 PM PDT by Pan_Yan (I believe in God. All else is dubious.)
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To: Pan_Yan

             

24 posted on 07/16/2013 4:49:03 PM PDT by tomkat
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To: cripplecreek

good point but it’s so frustrating t see this corrupt Govt be supported by a corrupt media who uses their race and homosexuals to attack whites and Christians


25 posted on 07/16/2013 4:49:17 PM PDT by manc (Marriage =1 man + 1 woman,when they say marriage equality then they should support polygamy)
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To: Greetings_Puny_Humans; Pan_Yan

“They should simply expel the Muslim Brotherhood leaders from the country and ban its existence in Egypt.”

The Egyptian government should go back to what worke/works with these animals.

- outlawed from forming any POLITICAL Parties and that means cant run in any elective offices

- arrest the blacklisted Islamists who were given safe passage by Morsi ~3,000 criminals back from exile.

- Morsi returns to jail for the original charge of contacting foreign powers and add jail-break resulting in prisons’ guards murders by Hamas operatives. Add murder charges for ordering his thugs to kill protesters BEFORE HIS ARREST.

I can go on and on but lastly, no reconciliation with Islamists, ever!


26 posted on 07/16/2013 4:50:24 PM PDT by melancholy (READ MY LIPS, NO POLITICAL ISLAM, EVER!!)
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To: Pan_Yan

ElBaradei is another (now former) member of the international crisis group. No good will ever come from them.

http://www.crisisgroup.org/en/about/board.aspx


27 posted on 07/16/2013 4:50:29 PM PDT by cripplecreek (REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
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To: Olog-hai

Told Ya!

You can thank me later.


28 posted on 07/16/2013 5:18:44 PM PDT by Southack (Media Bias means that Castro won't be punished for Cuban war crimes against Black Angolans in Africa)
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To: manc

Amen. Cue the defeatists....


29 posted on 07/16/2013 5:43:54 PM PDT by Amberdawn
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To: Pan_Yan; Greetings_Puny_Humans; cripplecreek

Nasser banned the Muslim Brotherhood, and always fought with them.

Although I support the rights of Christians and secularists in Egypt, there is something manipulative about this situation, and it is as if they are being set up as the impotent public face of an unknown power. The Muslim Brotherhood did win that election, and represent a large sector of the population.

We do not really know who is behind this coup in Egypt. It may be forces similar to those who went into Benghazi, with a well armed expert strike force, and sprang a CIA safe house, as well as their escape base. There is something going on, and we do not have even half the story.


30 posted on 07/16/2013 6:13:50 PM PDT by BlackVeil
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To: Pan_Yan

Meanwhile, Anne Patterson (our offensive “ambassador”) demands the release of all imprisoned MB loonies. I’m sure she didn’t come up with this on her own, of course; it’s all our Muslim Marxist Obama, who has now decided to keep a low profile and make his minions take the heat/


31 posted on 07/16/2013 7:39:32 PM PDT by livius
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To: Pan_Yan
Egypt Cabinet Has Women, Christians; No Islamists

No wonder Obama's knickers are in a twist!

32 posted on 07/16/2013 7:50:04 PM PDT by Redcloak (Winter is coming.)
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To: Navy Patriot
It’s the liberal media getting ahead of itself. Wait until the next step. The head of the military is still an Islamist. And ABC News buries this little AP blurb on page 2:
Interior Minister Mohammed Ibrahim, appointed by Morsi, remains in his post, which oversees the police. …

Mohamed ElBaradei, one of the (National Salvation) Front’s top leaders and a Nobel Peace Prize laureate, has already been installed as Mansour’s vice president. …
El-Baradei was one of the first to speak of invading Israel after Mubarak stepped down.

And the new “interim” constitution is still Islamist.
33 posted on 07/16/2013 9:24:58 PM PDT by Olog-hai
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To: Greetings_Puny_Humans

Mubarak did do that. But someone in the White House didn’t want them banned. Remember James Clapper’s goofy attempt at painting the MB as a “secular” organization?


34 posted on 07/16/2013 9:30:11 PM PDT by Olog-hai
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To: Southack

You told me that the cabinet would have token dhimmis in it?


35 posted on 07/16/2013 9:31:53 PM PDT by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai

Weak.


36 posted on 07/16/2013 10:46:23 PM PDT by Southack (Media Bias means that Castro won't be punished for Cuban war crimes against Black Angolans in Africa)
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To: Southack

Factual. We know the backgrounds of Sisi and El-Baradei already, and there is a sense of where Beblawi stands. The cabinet isn’t the boss. The Islamic interim constitution speaks for itself. The mainstream media still has the bad habit of calling radicals “moderate”.

If Egypt suddenly turns into a clone of Israel, then you would have the point whereupon I’d happily concede. As things stand, it’s very far away from there, and it’s light-years away from any “told you so”.


37 posted on 07/16/2013 11:00:36 PM PDT by Olog-hai
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To: Greetings_Puny_Humans

A better idea would be to revive the Pharaonic movement. in the late 1800s there were 3-4 competing movements in Egypt: one the Islamic, the second the socialist, the third the pan-Arabic (the 2nd and 3rd were linked in the Baath party and in Nasser’s ideology) and the 4th in Pharonism in the glorification of Egypt’s past


38 posted on 07/16/2013 11:08:43 PM PDT by Cronos (Latin presbuteros>Late Latin presbyter->Old English pruos->Middle Engl prest->priest)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; ColdOne; Convert from ECUSA; ...

Thanks Pan_Yan.


39 posted on 07/16/2013 11:43:05 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (McCain or Romney would have been worse, if you're a dumb ass.)
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To: Olog-hai

Look, it’s the internet. You can maintain a “denial” forever so long as you ignore ethics and fantasize your own facts...but it gets you nothing.

At this point you are just trying to avoid admitting that you were wrong instead of doing the heavy (intellectual) lifting of re-evaluating your “Egypt is Islamist” nonsense.

The MB is out.

Millions of Egyptians threw them out.

Having you misconstrue those facts is detrimental to all...and sad.

...but I can’t stop your endless posts of fantasies.

Perhaps your lonely worldview depends on your “Egypt is Islamist” nonsense.

Who knows.


40 posted on 07/16/2013 11:54:48 PM PDT by Southack (Media Bias means that Castro won't be punished for Cuban war crimes against Black Angolans in Africa)
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