Dec 7 Cairo: Live Updates: Tens of thousands of anti-Morsi protesters cross wires at presidential palace on Friday evening

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Hundreds of thousands take to streets in Cairo and cities around Egypt to pressure President Morsi to reverse recent decrees; Salvation Front says leader lost legitimacy and reject dialogue

Bel Trew, Nada El-Kouny, Yasmine Wali, Salma Shukrallah, Friday 7 Dec 2012

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Anti-Morsi demonstrators stage a protest outside the presidential palace in Cairo December 7, 2012. (Reuters)

19:40Ahram Online’s Salma Shukrallah reports at the presidential palace.

“Tens of thousands are celebrating entrance past the barbed wires, cheering with drums and singing “the revolution is back again,” she said.

“Fireworks have also been shot into the air as protesters continue chanting ‘the people want the fall of the regime,’ ‘leave [Erhal]’ and ‘free revolutionaries will finish their path’.

“Ultras songs are also chanted on drums. Republican guard and tanks center the crowds peacefully.”

19:20 Journalist Caroline Kamel confirms to Ahram Online that hundreds of protesters in the the industrial city of Mahalla in the western Delta governorate of Gharbiya have broken into the city council.

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Some notes about the video.

The google translation says:

Published on Dec 7, 2012

“Monitoring and vigil in front of Media Production City to cleanse the media in the presence of Hazem Salah Abu Ismail, former candidate for the presidency”

What I do notice is the white flag of jihad which as far as I understand it means that the bearer believes himself to be in ‘Dar al Islam’ or Islamicly controlled areas or a territory that is under the sharia and controlled by a calif or something similar in contrast to the Al Rey, or black flag of jihad which Muslims brandish to show they are in a territory not yet controlled by Islam and are at war with it. Also the large number of brain damaged zebiba heads in the crowd has to be some kind of new record. The zebiba is the bruise on the forehead where muslims who feel its not enough to be devoted, dress like they are devoted, speak like they are devoted and arse-lift in devotion also smack their heads down so hard and do often on a hard surface in order to create a bruise on their skulls so everyone can see just how irrational they really are.

Personally I think those kinds of signs of outward religiosity are rather sanctimonious and therefore, in a sense, counter-religious although perhaps, ‘counter spiritual’ might be more accurate. In any case, deliberately cultivating a physical mark to prove ones degree of fervor would be akin to Christians marking themselves with fake stigmata if in fact, the stigmata was not a sign of self sacrifice for the benefit of others and actually a sign of loathing and contempt for them.

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10 Replies to “Dec 7 Cairo: Live Updates: Tens of thousands of anti-Morsi protesters cross wires at presidential palace on Friday evening”

  1. Bearded Salafists and pro-Morsi militants besieging the media center in Cairo

    Black flag of Al qaeda at 1:47