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Friday, July 12, 2013

Halil Majnoun comments on the new Egyptian spring

Egyptian Minister of Conspiracy Theories Halil Majnoun on what's really behind the new Egyptian spring and the logical conclusion of Tisha B'Av.

Yes, it's the weekly LATMA update.

Let's go to the videotape.

Labels: Adly Mansour, Egypt, Egyptian democracy, Egyptian regime change, Egyptian Revolution, humor, Jewish unity, Judaism, LATMA, Mohammed Morsy, Muslim Brotherhood

Sunday, July 07, 2013

Oops... ElBaradei not prime minister

Egyptian President Adly Mansour has 'unappointed' Mohammed ElBaradei as his country's Prime Minister due to protests from Salafists.

But underscoring the sharp divisions facing the untested leader, Adly Mansour, his office said pro-reform leader Mohamed ElBaradei had been named as interim prime minister but later backtracked on the decision saying consultations were continuing. A politician close to ElBaradei said the reversal was due to objections by an ultraconservative Islamist party with which the new administration wants to cooperate.
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Mansour, 67, the former chief justice of the country's Supreme Constitutional Court who was installed by the military as an interim leader, is little-known in international circles and the choice of ElBaradei would have given his administration a prominent global face to make its case to Washington and other Western allies trying to reassess policies.

But news of ElBaradei's appointment, which was reported by the state news agency MENA and others, proved divisive.

The 71-year-old Nobel laureate was an inspiring figure to the youth groups behind the 2011 revolution that toppled autocrat Hosni Mubarak as well as the uprising against Morsi. His appointment as prime minister would cement Mansour's support among the young anti-Morsi protesters.

But a senior opposition official close to ElBaradei, Munir Fakhry Abdelnur, told The Associated Press that the last minute reversal was because the ultraconservative Salafi el-Nour party was opposed.

Mansour's spokesman Ahmed el-Musalamani denied that the appointment of the former U.N. nuclear negotiator was ever certain. However, reporters gathered at the presidential palace ahead of his news conference were told earlier that the president would arrive shortly to announce it.

The dispute over ElBaradei underlines the fragmentation of Egypt's politics as the country continues to be roiled by bout after bout of unrest and violence since Mubarak's ouster.

The 2011 uprising opened the way for the political rise of the Muslim Brotherhood, which was long suppressed by Mubarak's Western-backed regime, and Morsi was elected last year by a narrow margin. The fundamentalist movement swiftly rejected ElBaradei's appointment.

What are the odds of Egypt coming out of this as a representative democracy? I'd say slim. Very slim.

Labels: Adly Mansour, Egyptian democracy, Egyptian regime change, Egyptian Revolution, Mohamed ElBaradei, Mohammed Morsy, Muslim Brotherhood, Salafists

Saturday, July 06, 2013

Muslim Brotherhood claims Egypt's interim President is Jewish

Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood's web site is reporting that Egyptian President Adly Mansour is Jewish.

The Muslim Brotherhood's official website claimed that one of the senior most media figures in the Arab world said the interim president of Egypt, Adly Mansour, is considered to be a Seventh Day Adventist and is therefore of Jewish descent.

The website said Ahmed Mansour, an Egyptian television presenter and interviewer who hosts a live television talk show which airs on Al Jazeera, further claimed on his Facebook page that Adly Mansour, who was sworn in as interim president on Thursday following the ouster of Islamist President Mohamed Morsi, wanted to move closer to Christianity, but the Coptic pope refused to baptize him.

The Brotherhood doesn't think much of Egypt's new Prime Minister, Mohammed El-Baradei, either.

According to the Brotherhood's website, in his Facebook post Ahmed Mansour also mentioned that senior Egyptian opposition leader Mohamed ElBaradei, the former head of the International Atomic Energy Agency, has refused to take part in the Shura Council as long as it denies the Holocaust. The Islamist-led Shura Council served as Egypt's legislative branch for the past few months.

The Brotherhood's website claimed that Ahmed Mansour wrote: "This is a token gesture offered to the Jews by ElBaradei so that he can become President of the Republic in the fake elections that the military will guard and whose results they will falsify in their interests…All with the approval of America, Israel and the Arabs, of course.

Most Jews aren't too crazy about ElBaradei either. But the amount of hatred from the Brotherhood is simply appalling.

Labels: Adly Mansour, Egypt, Egyptian elections, Egyptian regime change, Egyptian Revolution, Mohamed ElBaradei, Muslim Brotherhood