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Hundreds of Egyptians protest the new Ikhwan (Muslim Brotherhood) government

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From Israel National News:

Egypt: Clashes Erupt During Anti-Morsi Protest in Cairo

Hundreds of Egyptians hit the streets to demonstrate against President Morsi. Clashes erupt in Cairo.

By Elad Benari, Canada

First Publish: 8/24/2012, 9:08 PM

 

Anti-Morsi protesters hold a large Egyptian flag and chant slogans

Anti-Morsi protesters hold a large Egyptian flag and chant slogans
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Hundreds of Egyptians hit the streets on Friday, to demonstrate against President Mohammed Mursi and the Muslim Brotherhood. It was the first and most significant anti-Morsi rally since he was elected.

The biggest demonstration took place in Tahrir Square in the capital Cairo, where Morsi’s opponents, who are mostly from Egypt’s liberal stream, clashed with his supporters.

According to reports in Egypt, the sides began throwing stones and other objects at one another. It was also reported that security forces intervened and arrested some participants.

Demonstrations against Morsi were also held in several other cities in Egypt, but no violent incidents were recorded outside of Cairo. The protesters claimed that Morsi is trying to monopolize and centralize authority in Egypt and shouted, “Do not let one group to take over all of Egypt.”

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Egypt arrests man after nail bomb attack on German embassy

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From Reuters:

(Reuters) – Police in Egypt on Wednesday arrested a man who tossed four homemade nail bombs into the German embassy grounds and attacked the entrance with a hammer but injured nobody and caused no serious damage, the embassy and security sources said.

The man acted out of anger after reading an Egyptian newspaper report on Friday which described a protest by German right-wing activists who had paraded caricatures of the Prophet Mohammad in front of a German mosque, they said.

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Barry Rubin: What happened in Egypt

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This is a really good concise analysis. The time to take a good hard critical look at Obama and the state of the world right now has come.

 

What Happened in Egypt

By Barry Rubin

A short history of democracy in Egypt. In February 2011 the Mubarak regime fell. There was going to be a parliament elected in Egypt. The parliament was elected. Its election was invalidated. Today there is no parliament in Egypt.

The Muslim Brotherhood said it would want to run one-third of the candidates for seats. Then they ran one-half. Then they ran all. Then they said they would not run a president. Then they did and elected a president. And they and the Salafists elected 70 percent of the parliament. But now there is no parliament.

The Parliament was going to pick a constituent assembly but to write a Constitution. But now there is no Constitution. There are no restrictions on presidential powers.

And then there was a Supreme Council of the Armed Forces but that was supposed to restrain the Muslim Brotherhood president. And it was supposed to be restrained by the Egypt-Israel peace treaty and by the hope of getting U.S. military aid. But the president got rid of it and fired the two top people and put in his own generals. And there is no restraint.

And we were told that the Egyptian government had promised to adhere to the Egypt-Israel peace treaty. But when it wished the regime simply violated the treaty and sent forces into the eastern Sinai. And it announced an alliance with Hamas which openly declared its desire to go to war with Israel and destroy it. And Cairo did not demur.

The Egyptian regime did more economic damage to Israel by violating its contract on natural gas shipments than any other Arab regime in the history of the country because Israel had to spend billions of dollars replacing that lost fuel. That is why Israeli taxes are going up and social spending must decline. The U.S. government did not lift a finger to help.

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IDF stations Iron Dome in Eilat amid Grad threat

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This article from the Jerusalem Post is quite indicative of the situation on the ground. The fact that Israel feels its necessary to place to installations of the anti ballistic missile system, Iron Dome, which is an expensive proposition to use, on the South border facing Egypt gives a pretty good indication of the state of the peace agreement between Egypt and Israel at this time. We know the Egyptians have increased the military presence in the area passed from Israel to Egypt as a condition of the peace treaty above and beyond what that treaty allows for, under the pretense of allowing the Egyptians to fight ‘militants’ there. Clearly the Israelis are quite concerned about a threat from the southern border from one group or another in any case.

J-Post:

08/19/2012 22:34

Move comes days after rockets shake Eilat; IDF says deployment part of national plan to test anti-rocket system around the country.

Iron Dome battery Photo: Marc Israel Sellem

The IDF stationed an Iron Dome rocket-defense battery west of Eilat on Sunday. The move comes days after two Grad type rockets were fired at the Red Sea resort city, apparently from the Sinai Peninsula.

The IDF spokesman confirmed the deployment of the battery, saying that the move was part of a national plan to test the system in various locations around the country.

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Salafi Terror Group Threatens to Attack in the Heart of Cairo

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Army of Islam threatens to carry out mass suicide bombings in the heart of Cairo, in response to the Egyptian operation in the Sinai.
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By Elad Benari

First Publish: 8/16/2012, 8:26 AM
Mohamed Morsi

Mohamed Morsi
Israel news photo: Flash 90

Army of Islam, the Salafi terrorist organization suspected of being behind the terror attack in the Sinai last week, threatened on Wednesday that it would carry out mass suicide bombings in the heart of Cairo, in response to the Egyptian military’s operation against Islamic organizations in the Sinai.

“No one will condemn the people of Sinai if they react with a car bomb in the heart of Cairo,” the group, which advocates for running Gaza according to Islamic law, said in a statement posted on a Facebook page affiliated with it.

“The Muslim Brotherhood has begun persecutions, led by the agent (Egyptian President Mohammed) Morsi,” said the statement. “Things are moving rapidly. Washington tells Morsi it will help him defend Sinai … The United States is entering Sinai on the back of the Muslim Brotherhood.”

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Egyptian man beats pregnant wife for taking off veil in heat

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(ANSAmed) – Porto Empedocle (Sicily), August 17 – An Egyptian man brutally beat his pregnant wife Friday after she took off her veil in an attempt to find relief from the scorching heat.

The woman, a 20-year-old from the town of Porto Empedocle in Sicily’s southern province of Agrigento, was taken to hospital for treatment.

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Muslim Brotherhood ‘Crucifies’ Opponents, Attacks Secular Media

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 by Raymond Ibrahim
Investigative Project on Terrorism
August 15, 2012

Last week in Egypt, when Muslim Brotherhood supporters terrorized the secular media, several Arabic websites—including Arab News, Al Khabar News, Dostor Watany, and Egypt Now—reported that people were being “crucified.” The relevant excerpt follows in translation:

A Sky News Arabic correspondent in Cairo confirmed that protestors belonging to the Muslim Brotherhood crucified those opposing Egyptian President Muhammad Morsi naked on trees in front of the presidential palace while abusing others. Likewise, Muslim Brotherhood supporters locked the doors of the media production facilities of 6-October [a major media region in Cairo], where they proceeded to attack several popular journalists.

 

Security forces rescuing one of those scourged by Muslim Brotherhood supporters (from Dostor Watany).

 

That there were attacks and violence—both in front of Egypt’s presidential palace and at major media facilities—is well-documented. An August 9 report by El Balad, a widely read Egyptian website, gives the details:

Last Wednesday, August 8, “thousands of the Muslim Brotherhood’s supporters” attacked 6-October’s media facilities, beat Khaled Salah—chief editor of the privately-owned and secular Youm 7 newspaper—prevented Yusif al-Hassani, an On TV broadcaster, from entering the building, and generally “terrorized the employees.”

El Balad adds that the supporters of Tawfik Okasha, another vocal critic of President Morsi—the one who widely disseminated the graphic video of a Muslim apostate being slaughtered to cries of “Allahu Akbar”—gathered around the presidential palace, only to be surrounded by Brotherhood supporters, who “attacked them with sticks, knives, and Molotov cocktails, crucifying some of them on trees, leading to the deaths of two and the wounding of dozens.

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STRATFOR: Egyptian unemployment for 15 – 29 YO, 77.5%

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Egypt: Unemployment Rate Hits Record High

August 15, 2012 | 0033 GMT

Egypt’s national unemployment rate rose to 12.6 percent in the second quarter of 2012 up from 11.8 percent for the same quarter last year, Egypt’s official statistics agency CAPMAS said Aug. 14, Ahram Online reported. According to CAPMAS, the total number of unemployed Egyptians currently stands at 3.395 million. Unemployment rates for young people — from 15 to 29 years old — hit 77.5 percent in the second quarter of 2012.

U.S. ignores abuse of Christian women in Egypt

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U.S. ignores abuse of Christian women in Egypt

Coptic Christians chant angry slogans as they protest attacks on Christians and churches, in front of the state television building in Cairo, Egypt, in May 2011. Photo Credit:AP Photo/Khalil Hamra

Nadia Ghaly’s cousin disappeared 40 years ago. She was introduced to a Muslim man as a young woman, subsequently vanished and resurfaced later three months pregnant wearing a hijab. She was the victim of a forced marriage.

She is not alone. Coptic Christian women are routinely victimized and forcibly converted by Muslims in Egypt, Miss Ghaly says.

In its annual Religious Freedom Report, released July 30, the U.S. State Department acknowledged the problem, but at the same time appeared to downplay it. The report described forcible conversions as “disputed,” asserting that while there were “occasional claims” of Muslim men forcing Coptic women (and sometimes girls younger than legal age) to convert to Islam, these accounts “often included inflammatory allegations and categorical denials of kidnapping and rape.”

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Former Ohio-based Islamist Calls for the Murder of Every Jew in Egypt

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The anti-Semitism flowing out of Egypt is beyond palpable, as we now have Sallah Sultan, an Islamist cleric in Egypt, preaching sermons about “[thirsting] for the blood of the Jews” and accusing the Jews of using girls infected with AIDS to seduce Egyptian men and infect them as well.

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Democracy in Action? Egyptian Court Orders Newspaper Critical of Islamist Pres. Morsi Confiscated

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The Blaze:

Egyptian Court Orders Newspaper Critical of Muslim Brotherhood President Mohammed Morsi Confiscated | Owned by Christian Businessman

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(The Blaze/AP) — An Egyptian court has ordered the Saturday editions of a newspaper confiscated over allegations that it insulted Islamist president Mohammed Morsi and instigated sectarian discord, Egypt’s official news agency said.

Editions of Al-Dustour, a privately owned daily, were seized after several individuals filed lawsuits accusing it of “fueling sedition” and “harming the president through phrases and wording punishable by law,” MENA reported.

It was not clear whether the paper was barred from publishing completely, but the Egyptian newspaper al-Masry al-Youm said authorities have removed al-Dustour from newsstands.

Owned by a Christian businessman, the paper has been fiercely critical of Morsi and the Muslim Brotherhood while showing strong support for the military council, which took power after the ouster of Hosni Mubarak in last year’s uprising.

(Related: ‘If You Don’t Leave…You Will All Die’: Christians Flee Egyptian Town After Deadly Riot)

Saturday’s edition featured a lengthy front-page article warning of a Brotherhood “emirate” seizing Egypt while calling on Egyptians to join ranks with the military to confront Islamists.

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Canadian suspected of role in Egyptian terror attack

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JESSICA HUME | QMI AGENCY

OTTAWA — A Canadian student has been arrested by Egyptian authorities for allegedly being involved in a terror attack in the Sinai peninsula, according to an Israeli newspaper.The Times of Israel reported that David Edward was carrying Egyptian identification that did not belong to him at the time of his arrest Wednesday. Egyptian authorities alleged Edward was photographing armoured personnel vehicles.

Sixteen Egyptian guards were killed in the terror attack and Egyptian aircraft retaliated by hitting targets along its border with Israel and Gaza.

Foreign Affairs would not confirm Edward’s arrest, but issued a generic statement.

“Canadian officials in Cairo are in contact with local authorities to gather additional information regarding reports that a Canadian citizen has been detained in Egypt,” a spokesman wrote in an e-mail. “Consular assistance is available.”

Egypt bombs targets in Sinai as border tensions escalate

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Egyptian border guards watch closed Rafah border crossing with Gaza Strip

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Egypt bombs targets in Sinai as border tensions escalate

The Egyptian military has launched airstrikes against targets in the Sinai Peninsula near the Israeli border. The airstrikes come after fresh overnight attacks on at least one Egyptian security checkpoint.

Egyptian warplanes bombed targets in the Sinai town of Sheikh Zuwaid on Wednesday, killing at least 20 suspected Islamist militants in retaliation for a series of deadly attacks on security checkpoints near the Israeli border.

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