Bringing In Backup
Opponents of ousted Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi pray during a rally at Tahrir square, Cairo Photo: EPA
The National Alliance for Legitimacy Support, a coalition of Egyptian Islamists headed by the Muslim Brotherhood for maximum convenience in putting forth a common front of protest cannot be charged with lack of sensitivity to the importance to their cause manipulating the opinion of the international community, in particular the west, in aligning itself with the claim that Egypt's nascent democracy has suffered a dreadful blow. In their collective wisdom they have directed new protest marches pass before foreign embassies.
Appealing to the democratic bona fides and beliefs of liberal democracies and those aspiring to mount democracies in their own countries, conflating democracy with capitalist success and the potential therein of advancing the future of individuals and nations alike into prosperity, how better to gain legitimacy than to draw in diplomatic overtures by foreign countries? Just one more clever idea in the overall plan to subvert the plans of the interim government and the military.
How better, in tandem, to provoke the interim government and above all the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces than to force confrontations between the police and the military facing off against plaintively unarmed civilians, pleading only for the return to civility, the reinstatement of Mohammed Morsi, and with that the validation -- or re-validation -- of their primacy thanks to a free and open vote a mere year ago, as lawful administrators of the country.
The Muslim Brotherhood incites its followers to get out there and protest. They cannot help it, after all, if some hot-heads take it upon themselves to become violent. And that their violence provokes the military and the police to respond in equal measure is simply quite unfortunate. It's an old trick in the Arab world, seen practised with great success, bringing howls of outrage when Islamist militants otherwise known as terrorists lob rockets into Israel from crowded civilian areas, then cry foul when Israel responds.
The Muslim Brotherhood has no compunction in their zeal to restore themselves to power, about using women and children, civilians of all ages and backgrounds, to become the front line of the protest, vulnerable to response that might prove deadly as it did on Friday when three women were killed in Mansoura during violent clashes between the new regime and their long-time opponents. It is the very same technique employed in Gaza when the IDF responds to Hamas and innocents are sacrificed because they have become shields for the terrorists.
Because of the violence perpetrated presumably upon innocent civilians protesting as is their right to do, Britain has certainly responded. Following in the footsteps of the cranky American administration response to the removal of the Muslim Brotherhood and Mohammed Morsi both of whom had been given a clean bill of support from the United States, Britain has decided now that it cannot possibly continue amicable relations and has decided to block military exports to Egypt lest the military use them on innocent Egyptians.
The message from the Islamist coalition is obvious enough; they represent the will of the people. Lest any doubt that a majority of Egyptians supporting their reinstatement exists, simply look at the numbers that come out in protest. And regard the loathing in which they are viewed by the military and the police whose illegal, immoral and irresponsible actions have overturned democracy and threatened the well-being of the people.
Last night a pro-Morsi sit-in at Cairo's Rabaa Al-Adawiya Square heard The Salafist El-Fadia Party announce that continued marches will be held on Sunday, and on Monday. There will be no end to the marches, to the staunch determination of the Islamists and their supporters to return the country to its pre-coup position. Rallies in protest of the deaths of the three women in Mansoura will continue; one to march on the Ministry of Defense, the other toward the National Council for Human Rights at Cairo University.
And the complicity of the United States in allowing the situation to come to this pass will be protested in yet another march on the U.S. Embassy to "expose the U.S. administration's role in plotting the military coup against democracy and to demand the U.S. ambassador's expulsion". Which is side-splittingly ironic, given the constant efforts of Ambassador Ann Patterson to continue supporting Mohammed Morsi, and urging the military in the early days of the ouster to reconsider. Veiled threats that the $1.5-billion the U.S. magnanimously renders to the military might be withdrawn.
The brilliance of drawing the international community into a matter that is strictly Egyptian in its nature and its outcome for the future cannot be overstated. International pressure has a way of ensuring that the most determined of autocracies will often stand down when pressed hard enough. But it hasn't happened with President Bashar al Assad in Syria who continues to mount ongoing bloody campaigns against his civilian population, and it isn't too likely to be successful with Egypt at this juncture.
No word from the international community in mainstream media reports about the Muslim Brotherhood, Bedouin Salafist, Hamas, Islamic Jihad combined forces striking in the Sinai against military posts, using classic suicide bombing techniques to bring their message home to the military that force is a double-edged sword, well practised by those who excel in it, and that after 80 years of waiting, they will wait no longer.
The National Alliance for Legitimacy Support, a coalition of Egyptian Islamists headed by the Muslim Brotherhood for maximum convenience in putting forth a common front of protest cannot be charged with lack of sensitivity to the importance to their cause manipulating the opinion of the international community, in particular the west, in aligning itself with the claim that Egypt's nascent democracy has suffered a dreadful blow. In their collective wisdom they have directed new protest marches pass before foreign embassies.
Appealing to the democratic bona fides and beliefs of liberal democracies and those aspiring to mount democracies in their own countries, conflating democracy with capitalist success and the potential therein of advancing the future of individuals and nations alike into prosperity, how better to gain legitimacy than to draw in diplomatic overtures by foreign countries? Just one more clever idea in the overall plan to subvert the plans of the interim government and the military.
How better, in tandem, to provoke the interim government and above all the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces than to force confrontations between the police and the military facing off against plaintively unarmed civilians, pleading only for the return to civility, the reinstatement of Mohammed Morsi, and with that the validation -- or re-validation -- of their primacy thanks to a free and open vote a mere year ago, as lawful administrators of the country.
The Muslim Brotherhood incites its followers to get out there and protest. They cannot help it, after all, if some hot-heads take it upon themselves to become violent. And that their violence provokes the military and the police to respond in equal measure is simply quite unfortunate. It's an old trick in the Arab world, seen practised with great success, bringing howls of outrage when Islamist militants otherwise known as terrorists lob rockets into Israel from crowded civilian areas, then cry foul when Israel responds.
The Muslim Brotherhood has no compunction in their zeal to restore themselves to power, about using women and children, civilians of all ages and backgrounds, to become the front line of the protest, vulnerable to response that might prove deadly as it did on Friday when three women were killed in Mansoura during violent clashes between the new regime and their long-time opponents. It is the very same technique employed in Gaza when the IDF responds to Hamas and innocents are sacrificed because they have become shields for the terrorists.
Because of the violence perpetrated presumably upon innocent civilians protesting as is their right to do, Britain has certainly responded. Following in the footsteps of the cranky American administration response to the removal of the Muslim Brotherhood and Mohammed Morsi both of whom had been given a clean bill of support from the United States, Britain has decided now that it cannot possibly continue amicable relations and has decided to block military exports to Egypt lest the military use them on innocent Egyptians.
The message from the Islamist coalition is obvious enough; they represent the will of the people. Lest any doubt that a majority of Egyptians supporting their reinstatement exists, simply look at the numbers that come out in protest. And regard the loathing in which they are viewed by the military and the police whose illegal, immoral and irresponsible actions have overturned democracy and threatened the well-being of the people.
Last night a pro-Morsi sit-in at Cairo's Rabaa Al-Adawiya Square heard The Salafist El-Fadia Party announce that continued marches will be held on Sunday, and on Monday. There will be no end to the marches, to the staunch determination of the Islamists and their supporters to return the country to its pre-coup position. Rallies in protest of the deaths of the three women in Mansoura will continue; one to march on the Ministry of Defense, the other toward the National Council for Human Rights at Cairo University.
And the complicity of the United States in allowing the situation to come to this pass will be protested in yet another march on the U.S. Embassy to "expose the U.S. administration's role in plotting the military coup against democracy and to demand the U.S. ambassador's expulsion". Which is side-splittingly ironic, given the constant efforts of Ambassador Ann Patterson to continue supporting Mohammed Morsi, and urging the military in the early days of the ouster to reconsider. Veiled threats that the $1.5-billion the U.S. magnanimously renders to the military might be withdrawn.
The brilliance of drawing the international community into a matter that is strictly Egyptian in its nature and its outcome for the future cannot be overstated. International pressure has a way of ensuring that the most determined of autocracies will often stand down when pressed hard enough. But it hasn't happened with President Bashar al Assad in Syria who continues to mount ongoing bloody campaigns against his civilian population, and it isn't too likely to be successful with Egypt at this juncture.
No word from the international community in mainstream media reports about the Muslim Brotherhood, Bedouin Salafist, Hamas, Islamic Jihad combined forces striking in the Sinai against military posts, using classic suicide bombing techniques to bring their message home to the military that force is a double-edged sword, well practised by those who excel in it, and that after 80 years of waiting, they will wait no longer.
Labels: Conflict, Egypt, Muslim Brotherhood
posted by Pieface @ Sunday, July 21, 2013
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