Despite their best attempt, the liberal media cannot find any love for Barack Obama among any Egyptian protestor. Whether it is opposition to the Muslim Brotherhood, or the group who at onetime was invited to the White House for tea and crumpets themselves. Egyptians “hate Obama.”
Al Jazeera’s English channel newsroom in Doha, Qatar (File photo: Hamid Jalaudin/AP)
Maybe to U.S. journalists, such as Soledad O’Brien, the Arab news organization Al Jazeera is still the industry gold standard, but in the Middle East the network has experienced real damage to its credibility. The past week has been a rough one, including en masse staff resignations, a raid of one of its offices, its reporters kicked out of a news conference by fellow journalists, and the arrest of some of its staffers by Egyptian security forces.
At least 51 people were killed on Monday when demonstrators enraged by the military overthrow of Egypt’s elected Islamist president said the army opened fire during morning prayers outside the Cairo barracks where Mohamed Morsi is believed held.
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BREAKING NEWS UPDATE:
Egypt’s top military commander says the army is now in full control of the country and President Mohammed Morsi has been replaced by the chief justice of the constitutional court as the interim head of state.
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Egypt’s military vowed to defend the country’s people against any “terrorist, radical or fool” as it is just hours ahead of its deadline for President Mohammed Morsi to resolve the nation’s political crisis – or face intervention by the Egyptian military army. A post on the official Facebook page of the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces, which is headed by Gen. Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi, read:
We swear to God that we will sacrifice even our blood for Egypt and its people, to defend them against any terrorist, radical or fool.
Tens of thousands of protestors in Egypt gather to oppose the Islamist president in Cairo’s Tahrir Square, and in cities around the country Sunday. They have launched an all-out push to force Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi from office on the one-year anniversary of his inauguration. Fears of violence were high, with Morsi’s Islamist supporters vowing to defend him.
An Egyptian misdemeanors court out of Cairo has sentenced radical Muslim cleric Ahmed Abdullah, also known as Abu Islam, on Sunday for insulting religion and burning the Bible.
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Well this is a bit unsurprising, but absurd nonetheless given that the Obama administration decided to make the sale of arms to Egypt now exceed arms to Israel. In the meeting with the Egyptian politicians, they claim that their “war is with America and Israel not Ethiopia.”
