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Brolo
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So in 2011, the people of this place:
Ousted this guy from power:
And he was replaced by this guy:
But then unfortunately this happened:
and then this happened:
and this:
and this:
So as of Monday, the Egyptian army:
gave Morsi 48 hours to step down or be ousted, they're going to dissolve the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood's legislature and suspend the constitution.
That deadline passed about 6 hours ago, and Morsi remains defiant.
News links from the usual sources:
http://www.aljazeera.com/news/middleeast/2013/07/20137394753443155.html
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-23157801
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/news/egypt/
http://i.imgur.com/Ni3iP5N.png
Ousted this guy from power:
And he was replaced by this guy:
But then unfortunately this happened:
and then this happened:
and this:
and this:
So as of Monday, the Egyptian army:
gave Morsi 48 hours to step down or be ousted, they're going to dissolve the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood's legislature and suspend the constitution.
That deadline passed about 6 hours ago, and Morsi remains defiant.
News links from the usual sources:
http://www.aljazeera.com/news/middleeast/2013/07/20137394753443155.html
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-23157801
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/news/egypt/
http://i.imgur.com/Ni3iP5N.png
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he is currently thinking about rescheduling his trip
The US government actually had pretty good inroads with Morsi from what I can tell, and they likely want him to stay in power, but I don't think there's going to be any direct intervention in this one unless it turns into a full-blown civil war.
You're damn right.
Yeah, Morsi was another autocrat willing to play ball.
I mean I don't know what else you call it. That's like, the word to use.
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Eh. It has very specific connotations about political legitimacy and establishes an outsider narrative about the dynamic that doesn't reflect what's more of an ongoing and volatile political reformation.
But O.J. has a knife!
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I don't have a standing opinion on what's going on right now
but I'm definitely gonna be keeping an eye on this
here's hoping for the best for Egyptians
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Not as many, some died.
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Yeah, it really feels like the protests that started with ousting Mubarak never really ended. Morsi somehow found himself with nominal political control, but only because his main political opponent was a holdover from the Mubarak regime. The public stayed quiet for a while, then turned on him as soon as he tried to grant himself unlimited political powers back in November, and that's just snowballed back into the current shitstorm we have going on now.
It does look like this time around they're going to be much more critical of the Muslim Brotherhood though:
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big difference is this time is appears that the military will be acting much more clearly on behalf of the secularists and opposition movement there, as opposed to acting for themselves
the question is does the brotherhood go peacefully or do they stir up the nest and try to get violent
i sense that they wont so long as they don't start beheading MB cabinet members in the square
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My understanding is that this comes not too long after Mubarak faced accusations dealing with abuses of power?
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But they need their support to oust Morsi
Once he's gone, who knows?
Basically it'll be years before Egypt has anything approaching a stable government
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Ideally the military would be subservient to the civilian leadership, but not "in the pocket" of anyone.
He got scared and desperate, and the constitution of the Muslim Brotherhood was still being drafted at the time, I believe. He tried to draft himself unlimited powers so they could pass a heavily pro-islamic constitution with minimal opposition or oversight, but that blew up in his face pretty much immediately.
There will be a parliamentary election first, I think, where a better constitution will be written
one of the problems was Morsi had a TON of power thanks to that constitution which was drafted under similar conditions to that last reel of Lawrence of Arabia when they take over Damascus...
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