Revolutie in Egypte #206: Flipperkastrevoluties

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Op dinsdag 24 december 2013 02:06 schreef rakotto het volgende:
Minstens 14 dood en tientallen gewonden volgens Social Media. Je hebt mensen die zeggen dat de Broederschap hier verantwoordelijk voor is en je hebt anderen die zeggen dat de revolutionairen hier voor verantwoordelijk voor zijn. De Broederschap meent dat Sawiris en de Christenen hier achter zitten (Geen idee waarom??? Maar volgens hun om meer chaos te veroorzaken, false flag enzo) en je hebt veel anderen die zeggen dat het waarschijnlijk de Salafistische terreurgroepen zijn die oorspronkelijk in Sinai zitten.

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Op dinsdag 24 december 2013 09:52 schreef Charismatisch het volgende:

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Ik denk dat de gewapende salafi-jihadi groeperingen hiervoor verantwoordelijk zijn, als je naar het doelwit kijkt en denkt aan hoe zij over politieagenten denken (c.q. apostaten).

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Op dinsdag 24 december 2013 12:06 schreef rakotto het volgende:
Ik denk ook dat het de takfiri-lui uit Sinai zijn. Volgens de bronnen zitten er geen burgers tussen de slachtoffers, alleen mensen uit de korps incl. de hoofd.

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Op dinsdag 24 december 2013 14:06 schreef Aloulou het volgende:

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In Libie paar dagen geleden de eerste zelfmoordaanslag geweest op ook security forces, volgens mij 8 doden. Deze strijd die ook in Egypte geldt zal aankomende decennia voor alle landen gelden die een dictator hebben verdreven. Zwakke staat, al-qaida groepjes hebben vrijspel, clashen met overheid en plegen doelgerichte aanslagen. In Tunesie eerder ook al 8 militairen afgemaakt nadat ze in een ambush liepen. Zelfde lui als in Libie of Egypte en zelfde ideologie. Zoals charismatisch zegt: "militairen en handlangers van de staat zijn afvalligen/apostates, "taghout" en onderdeel van de oorlog tegen Islam".

In Egypte heb je de Sinai wat een wild west is en helaas ook buurland Libie waar ze totaal geen grip krijgen op dit soort groepen omdat de staat daar niets voorstelt. Zal dus niet de laatste aanslag zijn, en de vraag is hoe de Egyptische autoriteiten ermee omgaan als het over langere periode regelmatig terugkomt.

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Op woensdag 25 december 2013 18:44 schreef Charismatisch het volgende:
De salafi-jihadi groepering Ansar Bayt al-Maqdis heeft de aanslag opgeëist, terwijl het zielige regime van Sisi de Moslimbroederschap heeft beschuldigd en tot terreurgroep heeft bestempeld.



The Brotherhood has denied being responsible for the attack, and an al-Qaida inspired group has claimed responsibility.

Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood declared 'terrorist group'
The military-backed interim Egyptian government has declared the Muslim Brotherhood a terrorist group after blaming it for a deadly attack on a police HQ earlier this week.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-25515932

Ansar Jerusalem claims responsibility for Mansoura suicide bombing
In a statement released to jihadist forums today, the Sinai-based jihadist group Ansar Jerusalem (Ansar Bayt al Maqdis) claimed responsibility for the Dec. 24 suicide car bombing in Mansoura that killed at least 12 and injured more than 130. http://www.longwarjournal(...)jerusalem_clai_4.php

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Op woensdag 25 december 2013 22:46 schreef rakotto het volgende:
Ik hoop niet dat het een decennia gaat duren, maar we zullen zien. Sinai kunnen ze makkelijk onder controle krijgen als zij goed met de bedoeinen omgaan, maar dat snapt de regering niet.

De huidige regime gaat ook niet lang blijven als het geen veiligheid kan stellen denk ik zo.

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Op woensdag 25 december 2013 22:52 schreef Aloulou het volgende:

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Heb weleens eerder gezegd dat het Egyptische leger een kanker voor dat land is en enige echte vooruitgang. Helaas zijn ze te sterk, al jaren. En gaan ze dus niet vertrekken. Daarnaast zijn ze lomp en weten niet hoe ze zaken effectief kunnen aanpakken, zie hoe ze de Moslimbroeders hebben aangepakt bijv. Ik verwacht dus welzeker dat dit soort aanslagen nog een lange tijd blijven voortduren hier en daar.

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Blast targets bus in Egyptian capital
Five people injured when a bomb blast hit a public bus in front of Azhar University in Cairo.

Five people were injured, one in a critical condition, when a bomb was hurled at a public bus in Egypt's capital, Cairo, two days after 14 were killed in an attack on a police station in Nile Delta city of Mansoura.

The area hit by the explosion on Thursday in front of Azhar University in the busy district of Nasr City was cordoned and is currently being investigated, Ministry of Interior's head of the explosives department General Alaa Abdel Thaher said, according to state-run newspaper Ahram Gate.

A second remote-detonation bomb was diffused around the same area, according to Abdel-Thaher, while state-run television reported that a third bomb was also diffused.

Investigations showed that the bombs were home-made and were planted in an advert placard in a road-divider, Major General Jamal Halawa, deputy director of Civil Protection in the capital, told Ahram Gate.

The bus passengers who sustained injuries were transferred to a nearby hospital, according to the newspaper report.

The blast comes a day after the military-backed government designated the Muslim Brotherhood a terrorist group and froze all of its activities and charity groups, raising the specters of more violence ahead of a nationwide referendum slated for mid-January on an amended constitution.

http://www.aljazeera.com/(...)122675643593481.html

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Al-Azhar academy sacks Qaradawi

Al-Azhar's Islamic Research Academy on Wednesday sacked prominent scholar Sheikh Yusuf al-Qaradawi. In a statement, the academy said al-Qaradawi had been dismissed for his "referral to a criminal court, violating Al-Azhar's ideology and issuing a fatwa [religious ruling] inciting against state institutions."

Last week, Egyptian authorities referred al-Qaradawi, along with 129 others, including ousted president Mohamed Morsi, to a criminal court to face jailbreak charges. Academy member Mohamed al-Shahat said the decision to dismiss al-Qaradawi was taken "unanimously" due to the latter's position against Al-Azhar and Egypt, providing no further details.

On Saturday, al-Qaradawi, president of the International Union for Muslim Scholars, tendered his resignation from the 50-member academy. "I tender my resignation from the Islamic Research Academy to the Egyptian people," he said in his resignation letter."I don't need membership in this feeble body." The scholar lamented the academy's failure to condemn what he called "brutal massacres" committed by "coup generals" against the Egyptian people.

"The academy has neither issued a statement, nor a fatwa regarding what happened," he said.
Earlier this month, al-Qaradawi resigned from the Al-Azhar Scholars Council to protest Al-Azhar Imam Ahmed Tayyeb's support for Morsi's July 3 ouster by the army. In his resignation letter, al-Qaradawi said he wanted to "register the position taken by independent scholars."

The prominent scholar went on to assert that the post of Al-Azhar Grand Imam – like the presidency – "has been usurped by the military coup." Al-Tayyeb openly supported the military's overthrow of Morsi following mass protests against his administration.

The Qatar-based al-Qaradawi has repeatedly criticized the "military coup" and chastised Egypt's new military-backed rulers. Al-Qaradawi also blasted al-Tayyeb's failure to invite members of the Senior Scholars Council to meet "in light of the recent massacres and grave incidents that have terrorized the Egyptian people, particularly the dispersal of the Rabaa and Nahda sit-ins."

On August 14, hundreds of pro-Morsi demonstrators were killed when security forces violently cleared two sit-ins in Cairo's Rabaa al-Adawiya and Nahda squares.

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Op donderdag 26 december 2013 15:01 schreef Charismatisch het volgende:
Zou de aanslag vlakbij al-Azhar een reactie hierop zijn?

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http://www.worldbulletin.net/?aType=haber&ArticleID=125667

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Almost half of Egyptians are unsure about which groups are behind Tuesday's deadly bomb attack on the Daqahliya security directorate in the city of Mansoura, which killed at least 16 people and injured 135.

According to a poll conducted by private polling organisation Baseera, 46 percent of people are unsure about who is responsible, while 35 percent blame the Muslim Brotherhood.

The Egyptian government accused the Muslim Brotherhood of standing behind the Mansoura attack, as well as other attacks against government buildings and security personnel in recent months, before officially declaring the group a terrorist organisation on Wednesday.

The Brotherhood denied on Tuesday any links with the Mansoura bomb attack or other attacks against the government.

Sinai-based jihadists Ansar Beit Al-Maqadis claimed on Wednesday responsibility for the blast.

According to Baseera, 6 percent of Egyptians believe that Ansar Beit Al-Maqadis is behind the incident, 3 percent believe Hamas is responsible, and 5 percent attribute the attack to other radical Islamist groups.

In Daqahliya governorate, where Mansoura is located, the number of respondents blaming the Brotherhood rises to 42 percent.

The poll was conducted by landline and mobile phones on a nationwide sample of 1,374 people aged over 18.

According to Baseera, 91 percent of respondents had heard about the blast. In Lower Egypt, where Mansoura is located, 93 percent had heard about it, while in Upper Egypt, 88 percent of people were aware it had happened.

Urban-based respondents were more likely to attribute the attack to the Brotherhood than rural respondents, at 39 percent compared with 31 percent.

The explosion – which initial Ministry of Interior findings attribute to a car bomb – is the first terror attack of such magnitude to be carried out in proximity to the capital, with a mere 128 kilometres separating the two cities.

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Doden bij geweld Egypte

_{zaterdag 28 dec 2013, 21:13 (Update: 28-12-13, 21:35)}

Op meerdere plaatsen in Egypte is het tot geweld gekomen tussen aanhangers van de Moslimbroederschap en de politie. Daarbij zijn drie mensen om het leven gekomen.

Een 18-jarige aanhanger van de Moslimbroederschap werd doodgeschoten in de stad Damietta, in de Nijldelta in het noorden van het land. Twee andere mannen kwamen om het leven in de zuidelijke provincie Minya en in de hoofdstad Caïro.

265 demonstranten
De Egyptische regering bestempelde de Moslimbroederschap van de verdreven president Morsi deze week als terroristische organisatie. Sindsdien zijn er zeker 265 demonstranten gearresteerd.

Vrijdag vielen er zeker vier doden en tientallen gewonden bij gevechten tussen de politie en sympathisanten van de Moslimbroederschap.

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On 22 December 2013, a Cairo court sentenced political activists Ahmed Maher, Mohamed Adel and Ahmed Douma to three years in prison on charges of organising unauthorised protests and attacking security forces.

It was just the start. On 2 January, an Alexandrian court sentenced two other activists, Mahinour El-Masry and Hassan Mostafa, to two years in prison on charges of organising unauthorised protests and attacking security forces at a protest.

Two days later, on Saturday, the prosecutor-general ordered an investigation into the storming of the state security headquarters in March 2011. The building was broken into by young pro-revolution activists who had participated in the protests in January and February which led to the ouster of Hosni Mubarak. At the time, the act was hailed by the media as a mark of the fall of the police state.

The verdicts and the ordered investigation caused shock among the circles of the young activists who, like those jailed, had taken part in the 2011 revolution.

Thousands of Islamist protesters have been arrested, and hundreds killed in violent clashes, since the July ouster of unpopular Islamist president Mohamed Morsi after mass protests against him.

But the arrests of prominent secular protest figures, most of whom had supported Morsi's ouster, was seen by some as an escalation against the 2011 revolution by a repressive regime that they argue still holds power.

Moments after knowing the verdict, angry tweets, Facebook posts and statements begin to spread condemning the verdict.

“What is the relation between the war on terrorism and the repression of the revolutionary youth?" wrote novelist and liberal Alaa El-Aswany on his official Facebook page in the days after the verdict.

"Remnants of the Mubarak regime, if you want to kill the revolution then lock up the millions of Egyptians that made it. Lock up even Egypt if you can, but our revolution will continue and will succeed, with God’s will,” he wrote.

Maher, Adel and Douma are not the only secular activists behind bars. Other prominent activists facing potential prison sentences include blogger Alaa Abdel-Fatah, and Alexandria-based activists Mahinour El-Masry and Hassan Mostafa. All are charged with breaking a new law that forbids protests without prior police notification.

Other non-Islamists, including lesser-known figures from the April 6 Youth Movement, the Egyptian Social Democratic Party, the Constitution Party and the Strong Egypt Party have been arrested at recent protests around the country.

Several judges who played role in the judicial protest movement in Egypt since 2005, including Zakaria Abdel-Aziz and Mahmoud El-Khodairy, are currently facing charges of being members of a pro-Muslim Brotherhood judges group.

El-Khodairy is also facing criminal charges of allegedly torturing a man in Tahrir Square on 3 February 2011, after the infamous Battle of the Camel incident when the Mubarak regime sent armed thugs to attack protesters.

The action against the 2011 revolutionary activists was triggered by a controversial new protest law, which applies major restrictions to protesting and political assembly, two major gains of the 2011 revolution. Many of the activists who are now on trial had taken to the streets to protest these new restrictions, and have subsequently been charged with violating the new laws.

“The protest law is a witch hunt against the 25 January [2011] revolutionary activists,” Mohamed Adel told Ahram Online in November, days before his arrest.

“In reality, the protest law is made to hunt down the revolutionary activists, not Muslim Brotherhood supporters as is being claimed in the media. The Brotherhood protests are not dispersed in the same way as our protests,” said Adel, who added that the Muslim Brotherhood protesters and supporters were not standing trial like the revolutionary protesters.

“We have members in the April 6 Youth Movement who have been arrested all over the country just for putting up posters against the protest law,” Adel said.

In an April 6 statement issued before the court ruling, the group, which played a major role in the 2011 revolution, said that the ruling of the court would be political, and warned of further escalation by the movement against “the return of the police state and oppressive policies in Egypt."

After the court ruling, which sentenced two of the group's founding members, Maher and Adel, to jail terms, the group withdrew its support for the transitional roadmap put in place after the ouster of Morsi.

“What is pursued by the current regime is a coup against the January 25 revolution and its goals,” said the current coordinator of April 6 Youth Movement, Amr Ali.

Other political groups agree that secular revolutionaries are being targeted.

“After the fierce campaign led by the Mubarak regime's media and its strategic analysts against the 25 January revolution and its icons from different political currents, the regime moved to phase two -- actual vengeance against all the opposition youth icons who refused to be part of the current repressive regime,” said a statement issued by the Strong Egypt Party in December.

But the Egyptian Social Democratic Party, a liberal-leaning grouping which has provided several key cabinet ministers including prime minister Hazem El-Beblawi, has denied that a witch hunt is taking place.

“The 30 June [protests against Morsi] was not a coup against 25 January; it completes and corrects the path of the 25 January revolution," Emad Gad, the vice president of the Egyptian Social Democratic Party, told Ahram Online.

“We are in a battle against terrorism and although I have my own objections regarding the protest law, especially how it deals with peaceful protests and assembly, it was not a good idea to defy the law or the state now,” Gad said, referring to the activists arrested for protesting against the new law.

Other commentators blame the Muslim Brotherhood for the situation.

“There was no need for the protest law. Criminal law was enough to deal with any criminal violations at protests,” Ayman El-Sayyad, a journalist and political analyst, told Ahram Online.

“Nevertheless, the Muslim Brotherhood protests and their unreasonable demands gave an opportunity to weaken the voices against the protest law,” he said.

Revolutionary movements are under continuous attack in the media, with the April 6 Youth Movement being described in some media as the "civilian branch" of the Muslim Brotherhood, or accused of being foreign spies.

On the same day that Adel and were sentenced to three years in jail, Al-Qahira Wal-Nas TV channel aired what it claimed to be phone calls between Adel and Maher talking about foreign funding.

The channel has continued to air private phone calls of revolutionary activists, including Ahmed Eid, Abdel-Rahman Youssef, Mostafa El-Naggar and Asmaa Mahfouz.

The phone calls are used to build a case that the activists were participating in a regional plot to bring down the state, which led to the 25 January revolution.

“It is not about arrests now; it is about a systematic defamation of the whole 25 January revolution itself. Just look at what is being said on TV channels -- ideas that the wholesome 25 January revolution is good but those who made it are bad,” Ahmed Emam, the official spokesperson of the Strong Egypt Party told Ahram Online, adding that he expected that soon the 25 January revolution would be portrayed as completely negative and as a foreign conspiracy by the media.

Strong Egypt Party and its founder Abdel-Moneim Abul-Fotouh are attacked on a daily basis. Abul-Fotouh, a former leader in the Muslim Brotherhood who left the group in 2011, is often described as a sleeper Brotherhood agent.

"Do not get me wrong, we participated in 30 June [ouster of Morsi] and we are proud of this participation. But I am afraid it was hijacked by the Mubarak regime in order to restore the repressive police state," Emam said.

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Ahmed Maher of 6 April Movement: We made a mistake on 30/6. The brutal regime is back

Ahmed Maher'The (current) law of demonstrations is worse than the emergency law that was used by Mubarak, and we are seeing the same stubbornness, all of which leads to the same result

"We took part in the 30 June (demonstration), and that turned out to be a big mistake, and we took part in what was called the correction revolution of 30 June. We went to Al-Ittihadiyyah (presidential palace) and we went down to Tahrir Square. We heard that it was (meant to be) a correction and a remedy for Morsi's mistakes.
We do not deny that Morsi did wrong. And we do not deny that he dealt with the situation with stupidity, nor do we deny that the Brotherhood group were too opportunistic. But what is happening now is seriously a return to the old regime and a return to the same old tactics used by Mubarak in the past; the same persecution, the same torture, the same corruption and the same lies are being spread in the media that existed during the time of Mubarak and the time of the Military Council, and, to some extent, during the time of Morsi. What is happening now is much worse.
The (current) law of demonstrations is worse than the emergency law that was used by Mubarak, and we are seeing the same stubbornness, all of which leads to the same result. Now the people have seen for themselves that all of the propaganda and everything promoted about us partaking in a correction revolution, and that we should tolerate and persevere in order to have a better life afterwards, and in order for us to reform the regime, has all been a lie. All that has happened is that the State Security has been restored once more, along with the torture, tyranny and fabrication of charges against people. The corrupt people are back.
Everything we rose against in the January 25th revolution is back and is even worse than before. We are certain that the outcome will be the same as before. The revolution's youth and succeeding generations can see how the people are living in advanced countries, and they will certainly not allow the old regime to come back.
Even if they jail Ahmed Maher and even if they jail Alaa Abdelfattah and all the revolution's youth, there will be other generations to take their place. So, if there are still sane people inside the regime, especially people who were counted as part of the revolution such as Dr Mustafa Higazi or Ziyad Bahaa Al-Din or others, if they still care about Egypt's stability and if they care about the principles they so often talked to us about and we so often heard from them, then they should take a stance: Either they resign or they take part in the revolution."

http://www.middleeastmoni(...)sthash.ehuV5xGs.dpuf

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Egypt’s top military leader, General Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi, has said that he would consider running for the presidency if it were "at the request of the people."

"If I run for presidency, it would be by the request of the people and by a mandate from my army, as we work within a democracy," El-Sisi, who is also defence minister, said at a lecture on Sunday, according to the state-run MENA agency.

A number of popular campaigns, including one called "By the Command of the People," have been set up to lobby for El-Sisi to run for the presidency in the upcoming elections, expected by mid-2014.

Some campaigns have suggested the general should become president via referendum, instead of through elections.

El-Sisi became a popular figure since taking a visible role in the 3 July ouster of elected president Mohamed Morsi, announcing on television that Morsi had "failed to meet the demands of the people" following mass protests across the nation against his rule.

On 24 July, El-Sisi publically called on Egyptians to "mandate" the armed forces and police to crackdown on violence and terrorism, by holding demonstrations. Huge crowds took to the streets in response to his request.

In his Sunday speech, El-Sisi also called on Egyptians to "uphold their national duty by voting in large numbers" in the draft constitution referendum.

Egyptians are scheduled to vote on the amended constitution on 14 and 15 January. The previous text – passed under Morsi – was suspended on his ouster.

El-Sisi stated on Saturday that voting on the referendum would "correct the democratic path and build a democratic modern state that satisfies all Egyptian."

Egypt is on the eve of a landmark in its history, as the world awaits the implementation of the first steps of the roadmap after two unique revolutions that impressed the world with their peacefulness, El-Sisi added.

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Op zaterdag 11 januari 2014 19:25 schreef rakotto het volgende:
El-Sisi would run for president 'if the people request it'

General El-Sisi, head of the armed forces, also called on Egyptians to take part in next week's constitutional referendum

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Wil hem best president hebben op dit moment, om zijn ondergang te zien. De problemen gaan ze niet oplossen.

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Op zaterdag 11 januari 2014 20:31 schreef Aloulou het volgende:

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Trieste boel... dit zag je zo aankomen. Ongelooflijk dat al die Egyptenaren daar zo intrapten zeg. Dan verdien je ook gewoon niet beter.

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Nasserist politician Hamdeen Sabbahi said on Saturday that he may still run in the coming presidential elections, stressing that his decision to compete will not depend on whether army chief Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi also runs.

Sabbahi said in a televised interview with MBC Egypt that he still stands by his decision to run in the presidential race if there is consensus on his candidacy from "the revolutionary forces."

He reiterated that he is also willing to back another candidate who gains consensus, if he agrees with their political programme, their presidential team and their supporters.

The Nasserist figure said he would not back a presidential candidate whose team included members of the Muslim Brotherhood.

A founding member of the Egyptian Popular Current, Sabbahi came third in the 2012 presidential elections, after the Muslim Brotherhood’s Mohamed Morsi (eventual winner) and Mubarak-era politician Ahmed Shafiq.
El-Sisi, who is heard of Egypt’s armed forces, said publically on Sunday that he would run in the elections, slated for mid-2014, "if the people request it."

Sabbahi stated that he is the only candidate who has "linked his candidacy with the goals of the revolution and not with whether El-Sisi will be running for the presidential post."

He warned against "Mubarak-era corrupt [sympathisers] who want to hijack the 30 June revolution."

Mass protests against the presidency of Mohamed Morsi took place on 30 June last year, triggering his ouster.

Sabbahi had earlier said he would back a presidential bid by El-Sisi, who was a "popular hero,” but in December appeared to change his mind, stating thathe would prefer the army chief stick to military matters, but that he would respect political forces if they wanted him to run.

The Egyptian Popular Current has already launched a campaign to promote Sabbahi as the "revolution's candidate."

Parliamentary and presidential elections are expected to take place by the summer of 2014, as detailed by the post-Morsi roadmap.

A referendum on the recently amended constitution is due to take place on 14 and 15 January.

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Op zaterdag 11 januari 2014 20:31 schreef Aloulou het volgende:

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Trieste boel... dit zag je zo aankomen. Ongelooflijk dat al die Egyptenaren daar zo intrapten zeg. Dan verdien je ook gewoon niet beter.

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Op zaterdag 11 januari 2014 21:20 schreef theunderdog het volgende:


Je spreekt wel erg meelevend over je broeders en zusters..... "ze verdienen het gewoon".... kanker he.

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Op zaterdag 11 januari 2014 21:34 schreef Aloulou het volgende:

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Maar ik scheld niet

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Op zaterdag 11 januari 2014 20:31 schreef Aloulou het volgende:

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Goed zo Sisi mijn held. Maak maar gehakt van die smerige islamisten. Morsi was een ezel.

Neem de voorbeeld van Assad en kill al those fucking Islamists.