Moderate Egyptians haunted by rising prospect of Islamist rule

Niccolo and Donkey Thursday 9 Feb 2012

Dionysian President Camacho Angocachi

Roland, check it out:

Egypt to try 19 Americans in case straining ties

CAIRO (AP) — Ignoring a U.S. threat to cut off aid, Egypt on Sunday referred 19 Americans and 24 other employees of nonprofit groups to trial before a criminal court on accusations they illegally used foreign funds to foment unrest in the country.

Egypt's military rulers had already deeply strained ties with Washington with their crackdown on U.S.-funded groups promoting democracy and human rights and accused of stirring up violence in the aftermath of the uprising a year ago that ousted President Hosni Mubarak . The decision to send 43 workers from the various groups to trials marks a sharp escalation in the dispute.

International Cooperation Minister Faiza Aboul Naga , a remnant of the Mubarak regime who retained her post after his ouster, is leading the crackdown on nonprofit groups. On Sunday, she vowed to pursue the issue to the very end. The investigation into the funding issue, she claimed, has uncovered "plots aimed at striking at Egypt's stability."

Egyptian security officials said that among the Americans sent to trial is Sam LaHood , the head of the Egypt office of the Washington-based International Republican Institute and the son of U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood . Five Serbs, two Germans and three non-Egyptian Arab nationals are also targeted.

Lahood's group called the decision "politically motivated" and said it "reflects escalating attacks against international and Egyptian democracy organizations." The IRI statement from Washington said the campaign was being carried out "in part by Mubarak-era holdovers."

All 43 have been banned from leaving the country. A date has yet to be set for the start of the trial. They can face between three and seven years in jail if convicted on the charges.

In Washington, the State Department criticized the move.

Angocachi Friday 10 Feb 2012

They use American campaign lingo for an ongoing event in Cairo! LMAO

Bob Dylan Roof Wednesday 15 Feb 2012

After revolution in Egypt, women's taste of equality fades

Women were at the vanguard in the protests that ousted Hosni Mubarak. But long-held sexism has reasserted itself at the hands of the military and the Islamists. 

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-egypt-women-20120215,0,7535689,full.story

Niccolo and Donkey Thursday 14 Jun 2012

Coup d'etat!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Angocachi Roland President Camacho Broseph popfop SteamshipTime Thomas777

Egypt Court Orders Parliament Dissolved

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Egypt’s military rulers seized broad legislative powers after the country’s supreme constitutional court dissolved both chambers of the country’s first democratically elected parliament on Thursday in what analysts and critics said amounted to a coup d’état.

The move came after the constitutional court ruled that a third of seats in the lower house were invalid, plunging the country into into deep political uncertainty two days before presidential elections. It in effect cancels an Islamist-dominated parliament assembled painstakingly over months of elections and hailed as a triumph of democracy by the international community.

This weekend’s run-off pits Ahmed Shafiq , a stalwart of the ousted regime of Hosni Mubarak , against Mohamed Morsi , an Islamist party leader despised by Egypt’s old guard.

Mr Morsi, speaking hours after the ruling, delivered an unusually fiery speech condemning what he described as a corrupt clique’s attempts to derail last year’s revoloution.

“We will not allow any of those criminals to return to power,” he said. “We will continue to bring down what is left of the corruption and the corrupt regime. There is no real place for these criminals.”

The ruling, promptly enacted by the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces – which has run the country since Mr Mubarak was overthrown – means that whoever wins that election will have no legislative body with which to work. It also annuls a 100-member assembly formed by lawmakers to draw up a new constitution that would define the president’s powers.

In a separate decision, the court also affirmed the rejection of a law passed by the Islamist-dominated parliament that would have barred former ranking officials of the Mubarak regime from running for higher office. This upheld the candidacy of Mr Shafiq, a former cabinet minister and premier.

The rulings – made by a judicial panel featuring several Mubarak appointees – sparked fears of a military-led counter-revolution.

“The supreme court’s decision is a full-scale coup,” Mohamed Beltagy, a top official of the Muslim Brotherhood, declared in a statement broadcast on state television.

“They [the military] are deluding themselves if they think the youth will let this pass,” Abdel Moneim Aboul Fotouh, a former presidential candidate, said.

The court’s ruling centred on the one-third of seats that were meant to have been set aside for independents. Since candidates linked to the main parties had also been allowed to contest those seats, they were invalid, the court said.

After the parliamentary elections the Muslim Brotherhood ended up with nearly half the seats in the new assembly, with ultraconservative Islamists taking another 20 per cent.

“The People’s Assembly does not exist according to the power of the law,” said a court statement quoted on state television. Farouk Sultan, the head of the constitutional court, said: “The ruling regarding parliament includes the dissolution of the lower house of parliament in its entirety because the law upon which the elections were held is contrary to rules of the constitution.”

Egypt’s military rulers would need to call new parliamentary elections, he added.

“This is a clear move against the Brotherhood,” said Heba Morayef, a researcher for Human Rights Watch. “The military has struck at the Brotherhood’s power base.”

Bob Dylan Roof Thursday 14 Jun 2012

Ours is a system of checks and balances :ameritard:

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Angocachi Thursday 14 Jun 2012

I read this last night, talked about it with my father. It's audacious as hell. They need to kill their generals, it's the only way.
The military supposes Algeria got away with it, and having seen what Erdogan has done to the secular American proxy generals in Turkey, they're refusing to go down.

Moderate Egyptians haunted by rising prospect of Islamist rule

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