Woh this is getting to be quite something. H/T again to Magic Martin. (You da man)
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Egyptians still attacking buildings etc. due to Mursi’s ‘Pharaoh like’ power grab
UPDATE:
High court in Egypt attacked with explosives:
Once again, thanks to Magic Martin:
Protests continue well into the 24th
(Google translation for above video)
This citizenship says: “Squatting because we did not we get our rights … because the goals of the revolution did not materialize, we are here and we will stay in Tahrir Square until our demands are achieved.”
Many Egyptian governorates witnessed sporadic clashes between supporters of the Muslim Brotherhood and protesters, wounding dozens.
Another citizen said: “We demand to clear the Ministry of Interior and the sacking of Prime Minister Hisham Qandil, solving the Constituent Assembly of the Constitution.”
The thousands of people had gathered in Tahrir Square against the constitutional declaration that enhances the powers of the Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi, at the expense of the judiciary by the Egyptian opposition.
Youths, police clash as Egyptian judiciary condemns Morsi
J-post
By REUTERS
11/24/2012 15:21
Activists hurl rocks at police near Tahrir Square a day after more than 300 hurt in demonstrations across country; Egypt’s highest judicial authority calls Morsi’s power grab an “unprecedented attack” on the judiciary.
Photo: REUTERS
Youths clashed with police in Cairo on Saturday as protests at new powers assumed by President Mohamed Morsi stretched into a second day, confronting Egypt with a crisis that has exposed the split between newly empowered Islamists and their opponents.
Buildings in Cairo set alight on Mohamed Mahmud St. during virtual war between Ikhwan and more secular people and the army/police
H/T Magic Martin for these videos.
High school Mohammed Mahmoud on fire
Protestors burn central security vehicle
Edited google translation from Arabic:
A number of demonstrators set flames to car of Central Security that was traveling on the Nile Corniche, after they threw stones at them, and the Central Security forces who are inside, and continued throwing stones at them till the forces intervened. Central security and the dropping bombs tear gas to disperse the demonstrators around it. The clashes today have resulted several Abbat between demonstrators, most notably injured protester was shot.
Below, fire on the roof of the building opposite the French school
Below, fire at ‘Freedom and Justice party’ (Freedom from the laws of man, justice by sharia) headquarters
Videos of conflict in Egypt today
Magic Martin has been digging up videos of the current conflict in Egypt between Morsi’s Muslim brotherhood that have “made themselves the new Pharaoh” and secularists.
Cairo
This looks like a fairly good explanation of what is taking place and why.
This is from an Egyptian news service from today. Don’t know where yet but it appears to be the military preparing for a large stand off with civilians, presumably unhappy with Morsi’s new status as a deity.
The one below appears to be from a highly symbolic st. in Cairo leading from Tahrir Sq. to the interior ministry
Same Street, more clashes.
View from above, same st. Clearly there is no effective litter laws in Cairo. That alone is worth a riot ow two. How the cops can eat in the middle of all that noise and garbage is a mystery I do not want solved.
Attack on the F&J (Morsi) party HQ today:
What appear to be rioters setting fire to Muslim Brotherhood offices in Suez:
Muslim Brotherhood offices torched, Morsi on defensive
As enraged demonstrators torched Muslim Brotherhood offices in several Egyptian cities, a defiant Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi defended his recent decree granting himself sweeping powers before a crowd of supporters outside the presidential palace in Cairo Friday.
Egypt’s Morsi takes on sweeping powers
Hey Obama. Having second thoughts yet?
DW.De
Egypt
Egypt’s Morsi takes on sweeping powers
Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi has decreed constitutional changes granting himself far-reaching powers. He also fired the country’s chief prosecutor, a move likely to cause further conflict with the judiciary.
The Egyptian leader on Thursday decreed, among other constitutional amendments, that all decisions he had taken since taking office in June could not be appealed in court or by any other authority.
A constitutional declaration read out on television by spokesman Yasser Ali stated that Morsi “can issue any decision or measure to protect the revolution.”
“The constitutional declarations, decisions and laws issued by the president are final and not subject to appeal,” the declaration continued.
Morsi also granted immunity both to the constituent assembly drafting a new Egyptian constitution and to the upper chamber of parliament from any possible court decisions to dissolve them. Both bodies are dominated by Islamist allies of the president.
“Morsi today usurped all state powers and appointed himself Egypt’s new pharaoh. A major blow to the revolution that could have dire consequences,” ElBaradei wrote on his Twitter account on Thursday.
Muslim Egyptian Woman Cut Hair of Christian Schoolgirl in Subway
AINA:
(AINA) — 13-year-old Coptic girl Maggie Milad Fazez filed a police complaint in Zaytoun, a suburb of Cairo, against a veiled woman who secretly cut her hair during their journey on the subway. The child said that as she entered the crowded train car she inadvertently pushed the veiled woman to go inside, which led to a verbal exchange between them. The veiled woman told Maggie, who has long hair, “You don’t know what I will do to you.”
Egypt’s Mursi to avoid Coptic ceremony, dismays Christians
Mursi tips his hand.
H/T Michael Laudahn
From Chicago Trib:
* Mursi had been expected to attend Coptic pope installation
* Church says he will not be there on Sunday
* Christian minority makes up 10 pct of Egypt’s population
CAIRO, Nov 16 (Reuters) – President Mohamed Mursi will not
attend the installation ceremony of the new Coptic pope, the
church said on Friday, to the dismay of Christians who fear
being sidelined in the new Islamist-led Egypt.
Pope Tawadros II, will be installed at Cairo’s Abbasiya
Cathedral on Sunday in a ceremony attended by Christian leaders
from several countries as well as Egyptian public figures.
Morsi warns Israel will pay heavy price
H/T Golem’s Bar
YNET:
Egyptian president sharpens his tone against Israel, threatening: ‘If I see the homeland in danger, I won’t hesitate to take unusual steps.’ He vows that his country will ‘stop this brutal aggression’
Roi Kais
Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi sharpened his tone against Israel on Friday, while Palestinian terrorists continued to fire rockets into southern Israel and Tel Aviv.
After concluding the Friday prayer at a mosque in Cairo, Morsi warned Israel of the consequences of its strikes in Gaza. According to the al- Shorouk newspaper, Morsi tweeted on his Twitter page: “We have the power to uproot the aggressiveness just like it uprooted exploitation.
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“I don’t want to take unusual steps,” Morsi added, “but if I see that the homeland is in danger, I won’t hesitate.”
Morsi said earlier that “Gaza will not remain alone as it was,” adding that the aggressors “know they will pay a heavy price is they continue their aggression.”
Egypt veiled women cut off “infidel” Christian’s hair, throw her out of metro
Joseph Mayton | 13 November 2012 | 0 Comments
Bikyamasr:
A nigab-clad woman holds an Egyptian flag at a protest in Tahrir Square.
CAIRO: A Christian woman reported that she had her hair cut off by two veiled women inside the Egypt’s capital city Cairo’s metro and thrown out of the car while being called an “infidel.”
Copts United, which reported the incident on its website, said the unnamed woman also suffered a broken arm from being thrown from the car.
The Coptic Christian advocacy group said this was the third such incident on the metro in the past 10 days and nearly at the same location.
Naguib Gebrael, the head of the Egyptian Federation for Human Rights, reportedly called the ministry of interior to “find a way to arrest those veiled women who belong to the Organization of the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice,” an underground movement that is not officially sanctioned or supported by the government.
This is not the first such hair-cutting occurrence in the country over the past few weeks.
Earlier this month, an Egyptian court in southern Egypt handed out a 6-month suspended sentence in a child abuse case that had sparked outrage among liberals and supporters of freedom of religion.
The teacher, Eman Abu Bakr, was convicted of child abuse after she cut off the hair of two schoolgirls who did not wear a traditional higab, or headscarf.
‘Destroy the idols,’ Egyptian jihadist calls for removal of Sphinx, Pyramids
AL ARABIYA
Monday, 12 November 2012
Murgan Salem al-Gohary, an Islamist leader twice-sentenced under former President Hosni Mubarak for advocating violence, called on Muslims to remove such “idols.” (Courtesy: Dream TV)
By AL ARABIYA
An Egyptian jihad leader, with self-professed links to the Taliban, called for the “destruction of the Sphinx and the Giza Pyramids in Egypt,” drawing ties between the Egyptian relics and Buddha statues, local media reported this week.
Murgan Salem al-Gohary, an Islamist leader twice-sentenced under former President Hosni Mubarak for advocating violence, called on Muslims to remove such “idols.”
“All Muslims are charged with applying the teachings of Islam to remove such idols, as we did in Afghanistan when we destroyed the Buddha statues,” he said on Saturday during a television interview on an Egyptian private channel, widely watched by Egyptian and Arab audiences.
“God ordered Prophet Mohammed to destroy idols,” he added. “When I was with the Taliban we destroyed the statue of Buddha, something the government failed to do.”
Egypt: thousands protest in Tahrir Sq to call for Sharia law
H/T Martin
ANSAMED:
Salafis want it to be basis of Constitution
09 November, 16:08
(ANSAmed) – CAIRO, NOVEMBER 9 – Thousands of protesters gathered Friday in Cairo’s Tahrir Square calling for the introduction of Sharia law in Egypt. Groups of Salafis asked for it to be the principle source of legislation in the country’s constitution.
Protesters, including many men with long beards and women in veils, are collecting signatures for a petition in which they ask for the Sharia to become ”the basis of all laws”.
It seems that Salafis listen to a fair amount of US gangsta rap
Salafist crowd demands sharia state for Egypt
British tourists targeted in ‘massacre plot’ at Egypt beach resort – but police swoop on al-Qaeda terror suspects just in time
Daily Mail:
- Five al-Qaeda terrorists were arrested by Egyptian counter terror police
- Alleged plotters were caught ‘while they collected weapons’
- Gang thought to be targeting resort popular with British tourists
By Alex Ward
PUBLISHED: 23:41 EST, 1 November 2012 | UPDATED: 04:00 EST, 2 November 2012
Five terrorists have been caught apparently plotting an attack on British tourists in an Egyptian resort in the lead-up to Christmas.
The suspected jihadists were arrested by Egyptian counter terror police as they collected rocket-propelled grenades, rifles and pistols in an attempt believed to be similar to the Mumbai attacks in India which killed 166 people in November 2008.#
Authorities claimed that the gang planned to attack the ‘softer target of British tourists’ holidaying at the idyllic beachside resort of Sharm el-Sheikh on the Red Sea.
Terrorist target: Beachside resort Sharm el-Sheikh (pictured) is thought to have been the target of five Muslim terrorists who were arrested by Egyptian counter terror police
The arrests come after al-Qaeda leader Ayman Zawahiri called for a new wave of violence, appealing to jihadists around the world to attack and kidnap westerners.