Posted on 08/03/2013 9:01:35 PM PDT by kristinn
It is no longer cool to have a beard.
Islamist president Mohamed Morsi is out. His opponents, a military-backed interim government of secularists, are in. And if you’ve got a beard — that most conspicuous symbol of Islamism in post-Arab Spring Egypt — you’re likely to get taunted on the metro, harassed in the souk and possibly even assaulted, according to conservative Muslims.
A month after a military coup ousted Morsi and landed his top cohorts in the Muslim Brotherhood behind bars, a popular backlash against the Islamists who governed for just over a year is palpable far beyond the halls of power. It is evident in the sidewalk conversations, the grocery lines and the television talk shows.
Criticism of the Muslim Brotherhood had been building for months, as citizens griped about a declining economy and what some called the group’s determination to dominate this nation’s power structure. But since Morsi was toppled, the complaints have exploded into a full-throttled fury at his supporters, demonstrating the dangerous polarization in this nation that is a key U.S. ally.
In the weeks since the July 3 coup, Egypt’s military and the interim government — which is made up largely of liberals and stalwarts of the Hosni Mubarak era — have cast Morsi’s Islamist supporters as evil-willed “terrorists,” child abusers and spies. The Egyptian media have whipped up the anti-Islamist fervor with dramatic reports that the Muslim Brotherhood dismisses as lies.
On the streets, where hundreds of thousands of ordinary Egyptians joined protests in June to oust Morsi, there is a willing audience for the new government’s charges.
“The treatment has changed for the worse,” said Osama Ibrahim, an imam at a Cairo mosque that caters to hard-line Islamists.
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Thanks to you guys we’ve known this at FR for months. Nice of the Post to catch up.
HA HA HA HA HA....LOL....GUFFAW....Now the islamofacists know what it’s like to be targeted. Keep it up, good Egyptians!
Next thought: It's all for show until Egypt's military gets their free F-16'a and missile patrol boats from those gullible American infidels...
Hopefully, one day libtards will face a similar backlash here in the Good Old USA.
if you’ve got a beard -- that most conspicuous symbol of Islamism in post-Arab Spring Egypt -- you’re likely to get taunted on the metro, harassed in the souk and possibly even assaulted, according to conservative Muslims... a popular backlash against the Islamists who governed for just over a year is palpable far beyond the halls of power. It is evident in the sidewalk conversations, the grocery lines and the television talk shows... since Morsi was toppled, the complaints have exploded into a full-throttled fury at his supporters, demonstrating the dangerous polarization [sic] in this ... key U.S. ally... The Egyptian media have whipped up the anti-Islamist fervor with dramatic reports... “The treatment has changed for the worse,” said Osama Ibrahim, an imam at a Cairo mosque that caters to hard-line Islamists.Poor baby! The trick isn't to verbally harass the rank and file simpletons -- the only approach that has a longterm prospect for success is to KILL the IMAMS, ALL of them. Cut their throats and throw the carcasses in the Nile. And dynamite that mosque.
In a few years we are not going to need these folks for oil. The end is already easily in sight,and I don’t think even the environazis can stop it.
We won’t have to give a s—t what these camel humpers do to each other.
Not only that, we can start to laugh at them!
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