Power Monopoly
"The people want to bring down the regime ... erhal, erhal ... (leave, leave)."
Suddenly Morsi is issuing laws and becoming the absolute ruler, holding all power in his hands. Our revolt against the decree became a protest against the Brotherhood as well."
Mona Sadek, 31-year-old engineering graduate, veiled.
It is quite obviously not only the secularists, the liberals, the leftists and socialists but also the pious-but-not-overtly-orthodox, and the wealthy upper-class that have now, finally, seen fit to join forces in objecting against what appears to have been an autocracy overtaking an autocracy to become another dictatorship of entitlement meaning to impose Sharia law upon Egypt.
A senior adviser to the Muslim Brotherhood and its political party, claims the opposition to be "very divided", and with that determined belief, despite signals to the contrary, President Mohammed Morsi would not reverse his decisions that have brought outrage back to Tahrir Square. "We are not rescinding the declaration", said Gehad el-Haddad.
The edicts neutralizing the judiciary's opposition to the Muslim Brotherhood and the Salafists taking over parliament and taking it upon themselves to re-write the constitution that have so outraged the Egyptian public - with the exception of Brotherhood supporters - will remain in place, according to both the president and his party.
But there is a great resemblance now to the crowds that came in to Tahrir Square from every quarter of Cairo and beyond two years ago, to unseat the government of President Hosni Mubarak and the outrage and the sheer numbers of Egyptians who have once again converged to express their anger and disgust at the manner in which the revolution has evolved.
Over two hundred thousand packed their outrage into Tahir Square, chanting their protests in a show of strength that lends credence to their insistence that they will not support the current government, while putting the lie to the aspersion that they are not united and do not, as a result, represent much of a concern to the governing party of the Muslim Brotherhood.
The secular and liberal opposition have finally coalesced in their common goal to construct an Egypt more to their aspirations and anticipations, not an Egypt that draws them back to the days of a lofty, disengaged government issuing irreversible edicts contrasting with the needs of the country.
A country whose economic situation has steadily degraded, its internal security ridden with crime, and an ancient part of its community fearful of worsening violence and discrimination.
"We want to change this whole setting. The Brotherhood hijacked the revolution. People woke up to his (Morsi's) mistakes, and in any new elections they will get no votes", said Raafat Magdi, an engineer and clearly no friend of the Muslim Brotherhood, among a march of ten thousand from Shubra to Tahrir, with Reform leader Mohammed ElBaradie leading.
Labels: Communication, Conflict, Culture, Egypt, Islamism, Muslim Brotherhood
posted by Pieface @ Thursday, November 29, 2012
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