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Egypt’s constitution approved in vote, say rival camps

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Reuters

Birds fly over mosques during sunset in Old Cairo December 22, 2012. Early indications showed Egyptians approved an Islamist-drafted constitution after Saturday's final round of voting in a referendum despite opposition criticism of the measure as divisive. REUTERS/Amr Abdallah Dalsh

By Yasmine Saleh and Shaimaa Fayed

CAIRO (Reuters) – A constitution drafted by an Islamist-dominated assembly was approved by a majority of Egyptians in a referendum, rival camps said on Sunday, after a vote the opposition said drove a wedge through the Arab world’s most populous nation.

The Muslim Brotherhood, which propelled President Mohamed Mursi to power in a June election, said 64 percent of voters backed the charter after two rounds of voting that ended with a final ballot on Saturday. It cited an unofficial tally.

An opposition official also told Reuters their unofficial count showed the result was a “yes” vote.

 

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Salafi Islamists torch HQ of Egypt’s Wafd party

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Al Arabia:

 Saturday, 15 December 2012

By Al Arabiya

The headquarters of Egypt’s Wafd Party in Cairo was torched on Saturday by supporters of Salafi Islamist politician Hazem Salah Abu Ismail, an Al Arabiya correspondent reported.

The liberal party’s deputy chairman Fouad Badrawi was injured in the attack, in which the radical Islamist’s supporters managed to break into the party’s building despite heavy security presence.

El-Said Badawi, head of the Wafd Party, told Al Arabiya in an interview, “Today, the Egyptian state, represented by the ministry of interior, has collapsed. The ministry cannot maintain order, allowing militias to roam freely in the country.”

The when law enforcement falls, the law of the jungle prevails,” Badawi said.

The violence broke out as Egyptians voted in a referendum on a new constitution intended to pull the country out a growing political crisis.

The Wafd party had pulled out from the Constituent Assembly that drafted a controversial constitution that was put to vote on Saturday.

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The constitution problem in Egypt:

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The following post was sent to me from France. I also have an interview with the Egyptian politician, a man who has over 100,000 registered members of his freedom party and stands very publicly against Morsi and the new sharia based constitution.

Unfortunately the audio is so poor that after many days and many many hours of attempting to reconstruct it I have not been able to translate it for titles. But I am hoping that one of the people present at the interview will send me a French transcript and I will be able to work off of that.

Meanwhile, here is an article about the man interviewed and what happened to him within 48 hours of the interview he did in Paris.

Eeyore for Vlad

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Egyptians endorse Islamist-backed constitution in first round

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Toronto Star:

Amr Nabil/The Associated Press Egyptian referendum officials count votes at a polling station in Cairo late Saturday.
Nancy A. Youssef and Amina Ismail
McClatchy Newspapers

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CAIRO—Egyptians endorsed a controversial Islamist-backed constitution after the first day of voting but without the support of the capital, according to initial results, raising new doubts that it could bring stability to an increasingly polarized Egypt.

According to newspaper tallies of the votes, 56 per cent of Egyptians in the 10 governorates who voted Saturday endorsed the constitution. But in Cairo, 57 per cent rejected it. The vote continues Dec. 22, when the remaining 17 governorates are scheduled to vote.

The vote appeared to be as much a referendum on Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi and the Muslim Brotherhood, the party through which Morsi ascended to the presidency, as the constitution itself.

Morsi and the Muslim Brotherhood heralded the new document as the pathway to stability. But the opposition groups — Christians, secularists, liberals and moderates — called it divisive and unrepresentative.

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RTV Arabic: EGYPT – Clashes in Alexandria today

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Watch the guy in Wee-Willie-Winkie costume lob a chunk of concrete and people opposed to Morsi’s theocratic tyranny

They used to say that Beirut was the “Paris of the Middle East”. That honour now clearly falls on Alexandria Egypt. The video below reminds me so much of Paris in the spring.

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Alexandria Egypt Dec 14 2012

Organized Islamic movements and supporters of Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi demonstrations and rallies in front of Rabaa Adawiyyah Mosque in Nasr City the day before the referendum on the new constitution, a bone of contention between the forces of political Islam and civil forces and revolutionary.
And raise the protestors in Tahrir Square anti-regime slogans such as “sit-in until the regime falls.” Protesters chanted in front of the Federal Palace during the passage of Mercy: “leave the people want to overthrow the regime”

Muslim Brotherhood Propoganda Event in New York Explodes into Violence and Protest (VIDEO)

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Front Page Mag

December 10, 2012 By 10 Comments

Essam El-Erian is the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood’s top foreign propaganda figure and with the Muslim Brotherhood hard at work seizing power and torturing protesters, he had his work cut out for him when he arrived at the Al-Noor Islamic School in Brooklyn, New York.

The Al-Noor School is on the NYPD’s list as “Schools of Concern” which made it a natural fit for El-Arian. Esaam El-Arian delivered the usual fairy tales about the new modern and human-rights oriented Egyptian Constitution, written by men who think that Christians and women are an inferior breed. And then things began to get interesting.

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H/T Don L and others

Morsi gives Egypt’s army police powers, right to arrest

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France 24/7

           Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi on Monday granted the army police powers, including the right to arrest civilians, ahead of a controversial December 15 referendum on a draft constitution that has sparked more than two weeks of protests.

By News Wires (text)

President Mohamed Morsi has ordered Egypt’s army from Monday to take on police powers — including the right to arrest civilians — in the run-up to a divisive constitutional referendum that has triggered mass street protests.

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