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The suicide mission of the Muslim Brotherhood

Posted by seumasach on April 16, 2013

An outsider’s perspective

Koert Debeuf

EUObserver

12thApril,2013

 

The day Mohamed Morsi was elected as the first civilian president of Egypt in June last year most reform minded people were hopeful. With many leaders of the Muslim Brotherhood Morsi spent many years in prison. No doubt they would do everything to change this ‘society of paranoia’, wouldn’t they? In his first speech as elected president Morsi also promised to form an inclusive government and to appoint a female and a Coptic vice-president. The main question back in June was how Morsi would deal with the army. In a ‘mini-coup’ the army curtailed the president’s position and absolved the People’s Assembly.

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Egypt: opposition calls mass rally

Posted by seumasach on March 28, 2013

Egypt’s NSF calls for mass rally in solidarity with summoned activists

Al Ahram

27th March, 2013

Main opposition group holds President Mohamed Morsi culpable for ‘divisions’ and ‘bloodshed’ in Egypt, accusing him of fascism in fierce attack

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Tensions escalate in advance of Egypt’s upcoming parliamentary polls

Posted by seumasach on March 2, 2013

Al Ahram

28th February, 2013

With the country’s second post-revolution parliamentary polls around the corner, Egyptian opposition parties are stepping up their opposition to what they see as Egypt’s “undemocratic” electoral setting, arguing that the current legal and political environment is not conducive to free and fair elections.

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Unmasking the brotherhood: Syria, Egypt, and Beyond

Posted by seumasach on December 14, 2012

Eric Draitser

Stop Imperialism

11th December, 2012

The complexities of the Arab Spring and the struggle for political freedom throughout the Arab world should not obscure what has now become an absolutely essential understanding for all anti-imperialists: the Muslim Brotherhood is one of the most powerful weapons of the Western ruling class in the Muslim world.  While that may be a difficult pill for some to swallow for emotional or psychological reasons, one need look no further than the insidious role the organization is playing in Syria and the abuses of power and human rights of the government of Egypt.  In the US-NATO sponsored war against the Assad government, the Muslim Brotherhood has emerged as the leading western-sanctioned force, the avant-garde of the imperialist assault.  While, in Egypt, President Morsi and the Brotherhood government seek to destroy what had been, little more than a year ago, the promise of the revolution.

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The decline and fall of the Muslim Brotherhood

Posted by seumasach on December 13, 2012

Hani Shukrallah

Al-Ahram

6th December, 2012

To chants of “Command, command oh Badei, you command and we obey,” the Muslim Brotherhood in power was fast mutating into the very caricature of itself as painted by its bitterest enemies. Its easily mobilized, effortlessly bussed loyalists, happy to throng in their thousands in typically malevolent and horrifyingly brutal defense of policies and decisions they knew nothing about, now stood in stark contrast to the “new Egyptians” born of the revolution they made – a brave, free and rebellious people who bow to no one, and for whom the very notion of “obedience” is anathema.

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Aims of Meshal’s visit to Gaza

Posted by seumasach on December 10, 2012

Objetivos del viaje de Meshal a Gaza

Resistencia Libia

9th December, 2012

Un día antes de salir para Gaza vía Egipto con apoyo del tambaleante gobierno integrista de Morsi, el jefe del buró político del partido integrista Hamas Jaled Meshal se ha reunido con su jefe político y financiero y anfitrión, el jeque qatarí Al Tani para fijar los objetivos de su viaje. Al Tani ha ordenado a Meshal que recupere el control sobre la parte de Hamas partidaria de integrar el frente de la resistencia junto a Siria y Hezbollah, que disuelva el brazo armado de Hamas, que organice la reconciliación política con los corruptos de Al Fatah y de la Autoridad Nacional Palestina, que ofrezca secretamente a Israel todo tipo de acuerdos aunque en público denuncie a la entidad sionista y que contribuya al esfuerzo de guerra del frente imperialista contra Siria.

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Egypt is rocking, a new Pharaoh rises

Posted by seumasach on November 24, 2012

M.K.Bhadrakumar

24th November, 2012

Catching the tumult of a revolution on camera is virtually impossible — especially a revolution like the one Egypt which rolls on with no end in view. Another revolution in revolution is unfolding. The Chinese cameramen have caught some fantastic visuals as the banks of the Nile begin to heave again with seamless human passions. The Xinhua photo album is here.

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Qatari tyrant gets red-carpet reception as Israel bombards Gaza

Posted by seumasach on October 25, 2012

El tirano de Qatar recibido con alfombra roja en Gaza mientras Israel bombardea

Resistencia Libia

22nd October, 2012

Los enemigos del pueblo árabe se han repartido armoniosamente los papeles. Mientras la aviación israelí asesina selectivamente a los dirigentes y patriotas recalcitrantes que no quieren reconocer la ocupación de la Palestina árabe por la entidad sionista con el aval del imperialismo occidental, el tirano emir qatarí Al Tani es recibido en la franja de Gaza por los dirigentes de la filial palestina de los Hermanos Musulmanes, el partido Hamas. Además los escuadrones de la muerte dirigidos por Turquía y la CIA asesinan a revolucionarios palestinos hermanados en el combate glorioso de Siria contra el imperialismo y el sionismo. El FPLP ha salvado su honor al declinar participar en la comedia de recibir con “honores” al tirano sangriento Al Tani al que le chorrean las manos de sangre del pueblo libio, sirio, bahreiní y yemenita. El imperialismo puede dominar y dividir a las masas árabes gracias a la intervención de petrotiranos como Al Tani que dirigen entidades tan artificiales y neocoloniales como Israel. Al Tani se presenta en Gaza con las maletas llenas de petrodólares con los que sobornar a los dirigentes de Hamas.

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Brotherhood admits members participated in Friday clashes

Posted by seumasach on October 18, 2012

Al-Ahram

17th October, 2012

The Muslim Brotherhood has admitted for the first time that its members took part in Friday’s clashes in Tahrir Square.

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Syria stands between Egypt and Iran

Posted by seumasach on October 16, 2012

Asia Times

17th October, 2012

CAIRO – The election of the Muslim Brotherhood’s Mohammed Morsi to the presidency this summer was followed by a flurry of conjecture that the restoration of Egyptian-Iranian diplomatic relations – frozen since 1979 – was in the offing. Yet despite some initial indications to this effect, local analysts now say such speculation appears to have been premature.

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Morsi is not making a clean break with past: Egypt Strong Party

Posted by seumasach on October 8, 2012

Al-Ahram

7th October, 2012

The Strong Egypt Party, founded by former Presidential candidate Abdel-Moneim Abu El-Fotouh, has issued an official statement on Sunday slamming President Morsi’s comments, in his Saturday evening speech at Cairo stadium on the occasion of October 1973 war, detailing the progress his administration achieved in his first 100-days-plan since taking office back in July.

 

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