Despite ultimatum, Egypt’s president defiantly says he won’t step down

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The Globe and Mail

he Islamist leader demanded that the powerful armed forces withdraw their ultimatum, saying he rejected all “dictates” — from home or abroad. Outside on the streets, the sense that both sides are ready to fight to the end sharpened, with clashes between his supporters and opponents that left at least 10 dead.

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While Morsi has stuck to a stance that he is defending democracy in Egypt, many of his Islamist backers have presented the fight as one to protect Islam.

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Very cool use of lasers on the Presidential palace

Links and news June 24 2013 -1

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1. It seems the Sunnis in Egypt are also gearing up for the classic sectarian war as well as the genocidal ones against non-muslims.

Ahram.Org: Eyewitnesses say that Salafist sheikhs in Giza village led a mob attack on Shia families, accusing them of being infidels and spreading debauchery, leaving four dead and scores injured.

CAUTION: This appears to be the actual video of it. This is fairly harsh. And one might be hard pressed to find a better definition for ‘savages’ than what takes place here.

2. Birmingham minister arrested in prostitution sweep pleads guilty to disorderly conduct

FirefoxScreenSnapz0473. The Daily Mail story on, ‘The Bomb the imam took home for the weekend, then called the police on Sunday’

Egypt ‘al-Qaeda linked plot on Western embassy’ foiled

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tory_continues_1″>Egyptian police have arrested three al-Qaeda militants planning a suicide attack on a Western embassy, the country’s interior minister says.

Mohammed Ibrahim did not specify which embassy had been targeted, but said a quantity of chemicals had been found.

Mr Ibrahim gave the names of three men and said they were planning attacks in both Cairo and Alexandria.

The plot was said to be in its final stages, he said.

A lawyer for the three men told al-Ahram website they denied all the accusations and he condemned the case as “fabricated”.

At a news conference, the minister gave details of the discovery of 10kg (22lbs) of ammonium nitrate – which can be used in improvised explosives – a computer with files containing information on bomb-making and a flash memory with instructions on how to build rockets.

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More from today’s anti-Israel and antisemitic mass demos in Cairo

And yes antisemitic. The chants of “Khybar Khybar Al Yahud” have exactly nothing to do with Israel but a reminder to Muslims and Jews of how Muslims slaughtered a large number of Jews in the past nowhere near Israel.

At one minute 30 they do a sort of satan-spawned Beatles sort of chant. Kind of like, ‘We hate you yeah yeah yeah’

Tear gas fired as Egyptian Islamists target security HQ

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Tear gas fired as Egyptian Islamists target security HQEgyptian security forces fired tear gas to disperse a small group of hardline Islamist protesters who were attempting to scale the walls of the state security headquarters in a Cairo suburb late Thursday night.

Around 2,000 protesters from several Salafi Islamist groups had staged a protest earlier on Thursday night outside the security headquarters against what they said was a return to the force’s pre-revolution methods.

After security forces fired tear gas, the remaining protesters, some of whom had also attempted to break into a nearby police officers’ club, left the area.

The protest points to lingering suspicion harbored by the hardliners about security agencies used against them by ousted President Hosni Mubarak, and which, they say, Islamist President Mohamed Mursi has been unable to reform.

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More Egyptian Muslims attack a church and Christians due to the rumour of one muslim girl converting to Christianity and marrying the person of her choice.

The google translation is a little rough on this video but it appears to be saying that officials for some mysterious reason were unable to stop these muslims from attacking a church as a classic islamic response to rumours that a girl converted to Christianity and married a Christian.

Nothing at all savage or primitive about this whatsoever.

No sir ee Bob. Although I do think if you ever decide to visit Egypt and notice its foggy outside, I suggest leaving the hotel by the back door.

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New level of violence in Egyptian riot videos

It doesn’t seem to be burning itself out. In fact in this one, its like someone sprayed steroids over a cast of cartoon characters when they were staging a sword fight.

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The burning bus

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Street battles in Cairo leave dozens injured after Islamist protest

Clashes broke out between Islamist protesters and unknown opponents near Cairo’s High Court on Friday, leaving dozens injured.

Thousands of Islamist protesters were holding a rally before the High Court in downtown Cairo to demand the “purge of Egypt’s judiciary” when clashes erupted.

It is still unclear how the clashes started. The Muslim Brotherhood’s Freedom and Justice Party’s website accused members of ‘Black Bloc,’ a term used to describe masked men wearing black, of inciting the clashes.

The website also said they used live ammunition, teargas and birdshot against Islamist protesters. Some Islamist demonstrators on the field confirmed the story to Ahram Online.

Meanwhile, Mohamed Sultan, the head of the Egyptian Ambulance Organisation (affiliated to the health ministry), said four have been injured by birdshot.

Sultan later said that the injury toll reached 95 while no deaths have been reported so far.

One of the Muslim Brotherhood’s buses parked in the nearby Abdel-Moneim Riyadh was torched.

 

Mansoura University clashes between members of the Free Islamic Movement and other students left 12 injured Tuesday

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Egypt Independent:

Mansoura University clashes between members of the Free Islamic Movement and other students left 12 injured Tuesday, four of whom reported being shot. The rest suffered bruises and abrasions. A bus belonging to FIM was also damaged in the fights.

In response, the university’s President Sayyed Abd el-Khaleq announced the campus will be closed on Wednesday and Thursday with the exception of students taking exams, reported state-run Al-Ahram newspaper.

According to reports, students, who were also FIM members, were bused to the campus, wearing T-shirts that read “Neither Brotherhood nor Salafis, we are young people who love religion.”

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Video claims to be muslims raping a Coptic girl in broad daylight

I am hoping that this is not what it claims to be. Even for me, it is hard to fathom a cult that would chant ‘god is great’ and similar things while gang raping a girl.

Next time someone tries to tell you that allah is just the Arabic word for god, ask them when was the last time they heard a Catholic rape gang screaming “Jesus is our lord and saviour” while gang raping a girl for the holy ghost.

Jihad Watch offers the following description of this video:

They’re shouting “Nasara! Nasara! Nasara!” (Christians! Christians! Christians!) as they set upon the terrified woman. And then “Allahu akbar” (Allah is greatest) and “There is no god but Allah.”

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