“The secret of all victory lies in the organization of the non-obvious.” -Marcus Aurelius
Magic Martin sent this otherwise unremarkable but amusing video this afternoon of an Egyptian showing his contempt for Morsi which I didn’t think was worth posting till it vanished from youtube hours after it went online.
Now its interesting.
H/T Magic Martin
By Matthias Gebauer in Cairo
Muslim Brotherhood supporters carry the bodies of three dead into the Al-Azhar Mosque Friday.
In the end, Egypt’s President Mohammed Morsi took all of 35 minutes for his nationally televised speech Thursday night. And his intention was clear. During the entire day leading up to the appearance, Morsi’s advisors had repeatedly explained that the president wanted to explain himself and his policies to the people of Egypt and to inject calm into what has become the most severe crisis since the revolution against his predecessor Hosni Mubarak.
And it was certainly entertaining. Originally, the palace had announced that the speech would take place at 6 p.m. on Thursday, but then the “Address to the Great Egyptian Nation” kept getting pushed back until finally, at 10:30 p.m., Morsi turned up on national television in front of an Egyptian flag.
He need not have made the effort. The Islamist president didn’t accomplish a single one of his goals with his address, nor did he really try. Instead, his flowery rhetoric served merely to further deepen the deep divide between his supporters and the political oppositionfrom the youth movement, the left-leaning and secular parties and even the judiciary.
There wasn’t a hint of real concessions to the opposition. Even the BBC abruptly shut off its live broadcast of the speech after seven minutes because it offered nothing new.
Morsi made no overtures to his opponents, instead repeating that he would not budge from the decrees he issued at the end of November, granting him broad authority and removing checks on his powers from the judiciary. He even said that he would stick to the December 15 date for the referendum on the hastily composed Islamist constitution.
H/T Magic Martin
CAIRO: Egyptian protesters set fire to the Muslim Brotherhood’s main headquarters in Cairo on Thursday after storming the large villa, a spokesman for Islamist movement told AFP. “Two hundred thugs went to the headquarters. Security tried to prevent them, but some got through the back door, ransacked it and set it on fire. It is still burning now,” Brotherhood spokesman Mahmud Ghozlan said.
Egyptian protesters chant anti Muslim Brotherhood and Egyptian President Mohammed Mosri slogans outside the presidential palace, in Cairo, Egypt, Thursday, Dec. 6, 2012. (AP Photo/Nasser Nasser)
H/T EDL Buck
By Steve Robson
PUBLISHED: 09:23 GMT, 6 December 2012 | UPDATED: 17:20 GMT, 6 December 2012
The Egyptian army was today patrolling the streets of Cairo after deadly clashes between supporters and opponents of the country’s Islamist leader Mohammed Morsi.
Seven people have been killed and almost 500 injured as the tension which has building since the President assumed near total powers over the country threatens to erupt.
Supporters of Mr Morsi attacked his opponents who had gathered to protest outside the presidential palace overnight.
Moving in: An Egyptian Army tank deploys near the presidential palace to secure the site after overnight clashes between supporters and opponents of President Mohammed Morsi
Peaceful: Egyptian Army generals have promised that they have moved in to keep the peace between rival groups who have clashed outside the presidential palace
Video from Magic Martin:
Thanks for keeping us up to speed Martin
The fireworks starting at about 1:20 is the highlight of this one.
Wadayagonna bet that now no one will be able to buy fireworks.
Below: Everything on fire.
Attempted kidnapping of two women
This is interesting viewing. Major stand off between the nicely equipped police and what look like fairly well regimented secularists with makeshift rock shields out of corrugated steel or tin. People are wearing rock-protect-head-gear reminiscent of the heady days of Tahrir Sq. when the revolution that ousted Mubarak brought them the Ikhwan.
Seriously escalating violence in the streets. This is bordering on the surreal. Even for Egypt as of late. Once again, thoughts wishes and hopes for the secularists. And how wonderful that somewhere in the world there are people brave enough to stand up to the Islamic fascists that would obliterate everything of value in human existence. We, the readers of this site, all have a dog in this fight. The supporters of this site know who that dog is. May the Ikhwan be defeated, crushed and treated every bit as harshly as they would treat us if they succeed and may Egypt know its full potential as an enlightened state after that. Below, people are robbing firetrucks of their axes and other potential weapons
The video below is chaotic even for war. The google translation of this clip says that its “war in front of the federal palace” and goes on to say, “The streets either short war between federal forces civil opposition to the policies of Mohamed Morsi, between his militia that carried out the attack on peaceful demonstrators, carrying cartridge and live bullets and Almlotov and rebels responded with brick”
At 45 seconds, someone fires a gun from behind the makeshift shields
According to the news, this demo is called, ‘Morsi’s last warning’. Lets hope he doesn’t heed it and the secular mob crushes Ikhwan for good.
More chaos and pandemonium. Live rounds, shotgun shells found
Fireworks and Molotov’s ignite violence at presidential palace:
Everything in flames
Muslim Brotherhood guy injured. Korans and fancy hats all around
View PhotoMembers of main labour union body UGTT and pro-government Islamists clash near riot …TUNIS (Reuters) – Tunisian police broke up fighting in Tunis on Tuesday when pro-government Islamists attacked labor union members they blamed for inciting protests last week against the Islamist government.
Several hundred Islamists with knives and sticks charged a gathering of members of Tunisia’s biggest union, UGTT, in the capital and broke windows at its offices with stones, a Reuters witness said. Police then intervened to separate the two groups.
About 10 people were hurt in the clashes, the witness said.
“UGTT, you are thieves, you want to destroy the country,” the Islamists chanted. They also carried banners.
Hundreds of UGTT members, who backed days of protests over lack of jobs and development in the deprived town Siliana last week, had been chanting slogans in the streets by the UGTT headquarters calling for a general strike and the downfall of the government led by the Islamist Ennahda party.
“Ennahda will end up like Ben Ali. They have not chosen their enemy well,” said one demonstrator, referring to Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali, the veteran autocrat toppled in the Arab Spring uprising in January 2011.
H/T Magic Martin
RAS AL-AYN, Syria (AP) — A leader of an al-Qaida-inspired militant group fighting the regime in Syria said his men do not fear death and they are determined to form an Islamic state.
Jabhat al-Nusra — Arabic for “the Support Front” — has claimed responsibility for suicide bombings and other attacks on regime targets across the country. The group has raised fears of a growing Islamic militant element among the forces seeking to topple President Bashar Assad.
“Thanks to our strong faith we do not fear death, because we think that if you are killed by the hands of this regime, then we will be martyrs and we will go to paradise,” said Sheik Abu Ahmed, 41, a regional military commander for al-Nusra in the northern Hasaka region.
A YOUNG man tried to stab his brother to death for insulting a Muslim prophet, a court has heard.
Safaa Allami, 22, is accused of attempting to murder his older brother Ali Allami during a row at their Cloverdale home in Perth’s eastern suburbs.
Ali Allami was rushed to hospital with life-threatening injuries, prosecutor Nicholas Cogin said.
It is claimed he was stabbed seven times in the chest, back and flank, suffering a pierced liver and kidney that could have cost him his life.
H/T Magic Martin
Egypt Dec 1 2012
Hey they can’t be all bad. This has to be the largest Santa Clause parade perhaps in all of history.
H/T Magic Martin
Ironically, according to Islam any music for entertainment is quite strictly forbidden. In fact even in Western Canada where Islam has infected many urban areas quite deeply, many schools are being pressured to allow an exemption for muslim children for music classes. In Ottawa as well, many Muslim students will attend a music class but not participate and demand the right to get a high mark for writing an essay on course material without learning to actually participate in it.
Meanwhile, Salafists lead other muslims here in Cairo in a gay dance
I think if there was a Satan and he could write music, it would sound like this pretty much exactly. (Starts at around 1:17) But I can sort of see the appeal. I mean everybody knows the words, right?
Cairo University Dec 1 2012 HT Magic Martin
Although the Shiite sect of Islam seems to have way more fun at their ceremonies
If anyone is ever foolish enough to visit Egypt I would suggest bringing a pair of laser goggles with you along with a kevlar and steel umbrella.
H/T Magic Martin
Legitimacy and law in front of Cairo U today (Google translation of video below)
It seems to me that Obama suggested that the former dictator of Egypt, Mubarak, step down with a small fraction of the current protests. I wonder why he doesn’t suggest Mursi step down with massive violent demonstrations raging all over Egypt this past week?
H/T Magic Martin
Green lasers are rapidly becoming a theme in the Egyptian counter revolution, if that is what this is.
H/T Magic Martin