Islamists cancel Cairo rallies for 'security reasons'

[Bosonic]

Source: AFP

CAIRO: An Islamist alliance opposed to the Egyptian military's ouster of president Mohamed Morsi called off rallies that they planned to stage in Cairo on Sunday, citing concerns about security.

"Several marches in Cairo have been cancelled for security reasons," said Yasmine Adel, a spokeswoman with the Anti-Coup coalition.

She said some other marches were taking place, however, but it was not immediately possible to confirm.

In central Cairo's Dokki neighbourhood, residents took over a mosque the Islamists had planned to use as a starting point for a march and put up a poster of a slain policeman, an AFP correspondent said.

Read more: http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/middle-east/Islamists-cancel-Cairo-rallies-for-security-reasons/articleshow/21899121.cms

[jessie04]

1. Any chance they can cancel the genocide against the Copts?

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[happyslug]

26. Sounds like Salafists NOT the Moslem Brotherhood.

I am sorry, the Moslem Brotherhood wants an Islamic Egypt, but Islam accepts Christians as worthy of being citizens. The Salafists are supported by Saudai Arabia, which tends to be Wahhabist (another name for Salafism), who are KNOWN to be anti-Shiite and anti-Christian (as while as Anti-Jewish).

Now, I can not exclude Moslem Brotherhood are doing the attacks on the Christians, but my first choice for such attacks would be the Salifasts NOT the Moslem Brotherhood. Now, the reports say Moslem and Moslem Brotherhhod, but nothing from the Brotherhood itself (i.e. the people attack who the Government approves they can attack the Moslem Brotherhood NOT necessaly the people doing the attacks.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wahhabi_movement

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salafi

[cosmicone]

2. I guess the "rage" fizzled out... n/t

[Comrade Grumpy]

3. Maybe they decided not to get murdered by the hundreds again.

I seriously doubt they have gone mellow in the face of the massacre.

[cosmicone]

5. There was no massacre

Let's not resort to hyperbole.

A few hundred dead out of a roudy crowd of over 25,000 is not a massacre. The army has a duty to maintain law and order. If the fucked up Islamic Brotherhood cared for life, they wouldn't be resorting to violence.

[hrmjustin]

6. The few hudred dead might not feel the same way about it as you do.

[cosmicone]

7. Probably not, but we have to be objective here

before we use terms like "massacre"

[hrmjustin]

9. Where I come from a few hundred dead is a massacre.

[hrmjustin]

14. So how many would have had to die before you would call it a Massacre?

[Comrade Grumpy]

16. I think that may be the single most disgusting post I've ever seen on DU.

It's like we have our very own resident Goebbels.

[hrmjustin]

17. Well it certainly is. How can hundreds dead in the street not be a massacre?

I am not a fan of the MB but killing them in the streets is not the answer.

[Comrade Grumpy]

15. "500 [people gunned down by police] is well-maintained law and order."

You have made yourself horribly and abundantly clear. You are an apologist for mass murder and crimes against humanity. You have gone way over the line. Just sickening.

[Comrade Grumpy]

18. I've alerted on this post and marked it as TOS violation.

Such bigotry does not belong here.

[Scootaloo]

19. Boy, you have high hopes

The ToS does not apply to Muslims. It never has. It never will. It also does not apply to blacks, women, roma, latinos, Mormons, Arabs, Indians, Native Americans, and many other groups besides.

Edit: Holy shit I stand corrected, it DID get hidden. 4-2, the third stooge might have misclicked? (yeah, my cynicism remains)

[Comrade Grumpy]

24. I was pleasantly surprised.

I didn't have high hopes, but what else was there to do? That post was just beyond the pale.

[Comrade Grumpy]

20. Results of your alert:

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Where I come from,
http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1014&pid=568730

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YOUR COMMENTS:

This poster is a notorious anti-Islamic bigot. Here, he distorts what happened in Cairo and calls the killing of 500 demonstrators "well-maintained law and order." If this isn't beyond the pale for DU, I don't know what is.

A randomly-selected Jury of DU members completed their review of this alert at Sun Aug 18, 2013, 12:51 PM, and voted 4-2 to HIDE IT.

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Thank you.

[hrmjustin]

21. Yes it was recieved.

It was a mind boggling post.

[Comrade Grumpy]

10. This post is an atrocious lie. It's is shameful.

You ought to delete it. People who says things like that sound like Nazis.

[Warren Stupidity]

23. The death toll is in the hundreds, all civilians. Your opinion is disgusting.

830 - according to Reuters, almost all unarmed civilians killed by the police and the army. Shooting unarmed demonstrators is an atrocity. Heck, we condemned Syria for shooting armed demonstrators.

[Bragi]

29. Wow!

This is probably the most un-DU post I've seen in DU. I mean we have lots of supporters now of the security state, the surveillance state, and official lawlessness in general, but I think this is the first time I've seen open support here for a military massacre of protesters. Are we heading into new territory now?

[tabasco]

4. Religious kooks tired of getting their asses beat

FIXED THE HEADLINE!

[cosmicone]

8. ROFLMAO n/t

[Comrade Grumpy]

11. This shit is sickening. Laugh at mass murder. Hah hah, so funny.

[Devil Child]

13. Hopefully the first of many defeats for the religious extremeists n/t

[Dawson Leery]

28. +1

[rollin74]

22. good

hopefully now they will also stop burning churches and attacking religious minorities

[Comrade Grumpy]

25. Your humanity (or lack thereof) is duly noted. On a practical level...

....do you really think this ongoing massacre is going to make life easier for religious minorities in Egypt, especially those that have allied themselves with the murderous coupmeisters?

[happyslug]

27. I am sorry, but I suspect other people then the Moslem Brotherhood

See my post above, but there is something wrong with these attacks. The MB MAY be doing it, but my bets are on the Salalists who SUPPORT the government.

[John2]

30. You really think the Salafists

support the Government? The Salafists are supported by Saudi Arabia. They don't support the more Liberal groups in Egypt. It was the Salafists that teamed with the Muslim Brotherhood to defeat the more Liberal groups. Without their support, Morsi wouldn't have won. The election was 51.8 percent for Morsi and 48.9 percent for the more Liberal groups. The Muslim Brotherhood would have lost the election without the support of the Salafists.

The Muslim Brotherhood and Salafists are the groups waging War in Lebanon and Syria. They are also waging War in Iraq. If this was the United States and the Muslim Brotherhood outnumbered us, I doubt anybody in the United States would be calling for their kind of Democracy. Morsi claimed that he wouldn't prevent any Egyptian from waging War in Syria, yet their sympatheizers want people to cry about them losing their lives in Egypt, when many are killing people elsewhere?

So let us get this. The Muslim Brotherhood groupies, can incite violence, with massive demonstrations, on people,and it is called mass murder when you fight back against them? This is what it amounts to. This is all orchestrated by the Muslim Brotherhood and their supporters. Your defense of the Muslim Brotherhood is noted however.

[happyslug]

31. Technically the Salagist support the coup

Thus my comment they support the present Government. Saudi Arabia supports the Coup (and that is probably the reason the Salagist support the Coup). The attacks on the Copts sound more like something the Salagist would do, more then the Moslem Brotherhood. The Moslem Brotherhood MAY be doing it, but all I was pointing out it is something more in line with the Salagists dogma then the dogma of the Moslem Brotherhood.

Furthermore, while Morsi barely received a Majority of Votes, between Moslem Brotherhood won the Legislative body overwhelmingly

In 2010 won 105 out of 175 positions up for election, the Al Nour party that represents the Salafist won an additional 45 seats:

http://www.electionguide.org/election.php?ID=2213


Article on why the Islamist won the last election (and would win any future election):
http://www.worldaffairsjournal.org/article/egypt%E2%80%99s-elections-why-islamists-won

[Comrade Grumpy]

32. Your sick apologia for mass murder is also noted. This is a very revealing thread.