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Wednesday, September 12, 2012
The image of a black Al Qaeda flag flying above the United States Embassy in Cairo on Sept. 11 shocked Americans. It should have shaken the Egyptian Government as well. Egypt receives $1.5 billion annually from the U.S., and Washington is about to forgive $1 billion in the ailing state’s debt.
But Egypt’s government is charting a different course. Rather than denouncing the egregious violation of U.S. sovereignty, Egypt’s ruling party, the Muslim Brotherhood, is doubling down. This Friday, the Brotherhood is slated to hold a mass demonstration just two blocks from U.S. compound in Cairo.
In Egypt and the U.S., the attack is widely being attributed to an obscure anti-Islamic movie. But in fact, Al Gamaa Al Islamiyya, a U.S.-designated terrorist organization, announced weeks ago that it would protest in front of the U.S. Embassy on 9/11 to demand the release of Sheikh Omar Abdel Rahman, the blind cleric mastermind of the first World Trade Center Bombing in 1993.
No doubt, the appearance of the video led to a spike in support for the Gamaa demonstration, notably among Salafists and Egypt’s infamously drugged-up soccer fans known as “Ultras.”
So while the Brotherhood may not have planned the attack, the organization quickly embraced it, exploiting the crime to foment sectarian tensions and burnish its anti-American populist credentials. To wit, in its first official account of events in Arabic, the Brotherhood claimed that the anti-Islamic movie had been funded by Coptic Christians in America and praised Egyptians for “rising up for the victory of the Prophet.”
A day later, the Muslim Brotherhood’s Egyptian president Mohammed Morsi had not offered an apology to the U.S. Instead, according to the Egyptian daily Al Ahram, Morsi directed the Egyptian Embassy in Washington to take legal action against the film’s producers.
Originally posted by Jobeycool
So much for the fake democracy in Egypt.They are allowed to murder people over a stupid movie.The U.S. leadership has become a total mess of terrible hypocrisy now.
Originally posted by Swills
Originally posted by Jobeycool
So much for the fake democracy in Egypt.They are allowed to murder people over a stupid movie.The U.S. leadership has become a total mess of terrible hypocrisy now.
Are you not aware that the Muslim Brotherhood is in power in Egypt and recently declared dictatorship? The good news is the Egyptian people are protesting them en mass. Expect another Arab Spring in Egypt soon. Now the question is, is the Egyptian military going to support the people or the Muslim Brotherhood?edit on 28-11-2012 by Swills because: (no reason given)