Posted on 12/03/2014 3:23:47 AM PST by Olog-hai
Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi says a law is being drafted to criminalize insulting the uprisings that toppled President Hosni Mubarak in 2011 and his Islamist successor Mohammed Morsi in 2013.
Criminalizing insulting the uprisings would help appease both sides of a widening rift over whether the two popular movements expressed the genuine will of Egyptians. …
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Before they were made illegal, where did one go to get a permit to foment a revolution?
Jahannam, in the case of the “revolutionaries” here.
Outlawing criticism of the new regime?
Don’t give King Obama any ideas.
May seem immediately like a dictatorial attempt to crush dissent, but the fact that he is criminalizing the criticism of both indicates this may just be a genuine attempt to stop the further fracturing of Egyptian society.
The fracturing cannot be stopped. The moslems will continue to push for sharia and the civilized (although nominally moslem these people believe in democracy, peace and equal opportunity free of theocratic domination. All things that are counter to the koran) will oppose them.
It wasn’t all MB and Salafi in Tahrir Square back in 2011 chanting “To Jerusalem we go, martyrs in the Millions”.
There’s no fracturing there. The vast majority still want to be martyrs in Jerusalem.
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