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CAIRO (AP) -- An Egyptian court has banned the Muslim Brotherhood group and ordered its assets confiscated in a dramatic escalation of a crackdown by the military-backed government against supporters of the ousted Islamist president Mohammed Morsi. Egypt state TV said the court issued its ruling on Monday.

Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood issued a statement on Wednesday announcing their refusal of the removal of former president Mohamed Morsi, calling the military's move a "coup d'etat." "We refuse to engage in any work with the usurped authority," added the statement. The Brotherhood, who Morsi was a member of its Guidance Bureau before his inauguration in June 2012, called on protesters to practice self-restraint and peaceful protesting. The statement also denounced the "killing, arrests, chaining of media freedom and the closing of TV channels," describing it as tactic of the "oppressive police state."

A colleague sent me the image below from Egypt's Cairo Airport, which had been discussed in an e-mail posted September 22, 2012 at Godfather Politics: My husband and I just came back from the Middle East. As we arrived in Cairo, going down the mechanical stairs to go to the baggage claim area, there's this big poster which reads: "We must educate our children to become like young Egyptian people." President of the USA, Barack Obama Notwithstanding President Obama's quoted admonition (from 2011), a detailed 2004 study of Egyptian children's textbooks ("Jews, Christians, War and Peace in Egyptian School...

CAIRO – Obama’s speech in Cairo was a raging success. King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia presented him with a special Keyboard Cat video as congratulations. Critics and Arab citizens from all walks of life are praising the speech as a positive step for US Muslim relations. King Abdullah, so impressed with the speech and its reception, had a something special made for the President. Before Obama left Cairo Abdullah presented him with a video of Obama’s controversial bow to King Abdullah being played off by Keyboard Cat. (click through to see video) The polite gesture made by Obama earlier this...