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Friday, August 16, 2013

Disturbing images from Egyptian riots

Once again, there are pitched battles between supporters of the Muslim Brotherhood and Mohammed Morsy, on the one hand, and the Egyptian army, on the other hand. These images are from today (Friday).

Here's an image of a Morsy supporter carrying a gun in the middle of a demonstration in downtown Cairo.
And here are two images of Egyptians jumping off bridges in Cairo (and there's nothing underneath the but roadway) to escape gunfire.


Here's a video report from CBS News from before the riots started.

Let's go to the videotape.



Hot Air points out that the lines between the Egyptian Army and the Muslim Brotherhood are not as clear-cut as was the case in Tiananmen Square in China in 1989.
Bloomberg wonders whether this is Egypt’s Tiananmen Square moment:
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You have to ask: How would the world be reacting if the victims in Cairo were secularists or anti-communists?
Well, they’re not, and as Bloomberg notes, the indications from the first year of Muslim Brotherhood control wasn’t that the country was headed for a pluralistic, tolerant self-government.  In the wake of the massacre, the Brotherhood and its Islamist allies are torching Christian churches all over Egypt, part of a campaign against the Copts that had been simmering ever since Mohamed Morsi took power.  That doesn’t mean that the Egyptian military should be slaughtering them in the streets, or that they’re much better in practice than Morsi’s coalition was.  The lines are nowhere near as clear as they were in Tiananmen Square.
Of course, we also didn’t fund the Chinese military back in 1989, either.  Like it or not, this week has American fingerprints on it, and even with the murkier battle lines, that’s an embarrassment for the US.
Yes, it has been. Obama and Kerry have no clue what to do. The only thing they really care about in this region is the 'Palestinians.'

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posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 5:41 PM

2 Comments:

At 6:15 PM, Blogger Sunlight said...

Didn't Obama, Hillary2106, and Khmer Rouge Kerry turn over Mubarak and fund both sides of this thing? Although I think they only funded the Army when they thought the Muslim Brotherhood (parent corporation of al Qaeda, who killed 3,000 of us one morning) had control of the trigger...

So this insinuation: "Of course, we also didn’t fund the Chinese military back in 1989, either."
is not comparable. The US Progressive Democrats have taken action on behalf of and funded the Muslim Brotherhood, al Qaeda, and al Shabaab everywhere.

 
At 6:17 PM, Blogger Sunlight said...

And, I promise you, I don't know a single Progressive who is embarrassed by ANYTHING they've done, including pouring weapons into multiple sides of the cartel/govt street gangbanger war in Mexico, with 75+ dead, and no reaction from anyone on the planet. Embarrassment? Wake up HotAir... this is the future if you don't stop prevaricating.

 

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