{"id":51718,"date":"2013-07-19T20:29:41","date_gmt":"2013-07-19T19:29:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/breaking-news\/defying-brutal-military-might-morsi-supporters-take-to-streets-in-egypt-2\/51718\/"},"modified":"2013-07-19T20:29:41","modified_gmt":"2013-07-19T19:29:41","slug":"defying-brutal-military-might-morsi-supporters-take-to-streets-in-egypt-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/breaking-news\/defying-brutal-military-might-morsi-supporters-take-to-streets-in-egypt-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Defying Brutal Military Might, Morsi Supporters Take to Streets in Egypt"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"#AntiCoup protesters take to the streets of Cairo on Friday, July 19. (Photo: @Ikhwanweb\/ Twitter)<\/span><\/span>Defying military threats, thousands of supporters of ousted Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi are pouring into the streets Friday demanding the power-wielding military ‘break the coup’ and reinstate the Islamic president.<\/p>\n

The army issued a statement<\/a> ahead of the rally promising that individuals showing “any deviation from peaceful expressions of opinion” will “endanger his life,” AFP<\/em> reports.<\/p>\n

Largely centered around Cairo’s Rabaa al-Adawiya mosque, the center of an ongoing pro-Morsi encampment, the day of protests\u2013dubbed “Breaking the Coup”\u2013has spread to small demonstrations elsewhere in Cairo and in several towns across Egypt.<\/p>\n

As seen in tweets by Democracy Now! <\/em>correspondent Sharif Kouddous, the crowds fortified themselves with flags and pro-Morsi paraphanalia and\u2013anticipating another brutal crackdown by the military forces\u2013piles of stones.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, anti-Morsi activitists are planning a rally later Friday in Tahrir Square and outside the presidential palace.<\/p>\n

The July 3rd ouster, initiated by the youth-led Tamarod (Rebel) movement, was\u2013on the surface\u2013against an “arrogant and grossly incompetent Muslim Brotherhood government,” as the editors of The Nation<\/em> write in a recent editorial<\/a>. However, the true goals were not dissimilar to those professed back during the 2011 revolution: “bread, freedom, and social justice.”<\/p>\n

“Just as it did with the January insurrection against Mubarak, the army is riding the tiger of popular revolt,” the Nation<\/em> editors note, lamenting that the power of the revolutionaries has now been largely co-opted by the Egyptian military who, after forcing Morsi’s removal, have instituted a brutal campaign against his supporters.<\/p>\n

“It\u2019s disturbing that so many people, in Egypt and abroad, who protested the army\u2019s abusive sixteen-month rule before Morsi\u2019s election are now cheering the overthrow of Egypt\u2019s first democratically elected government,” says the Nation<\/em> editorial, which continues:<\/p>\n

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Subsequent developments have been ominous: they include arrest warrants for hundreds of Brotherhood members; the July 8 massacre of protesters; shutdown of media outlets; rushed plans for a constitutional overhaul by unidentified, unelected jurists, to be followed up by a vaguely spelled-out review, referendum and elections; and the feverish branding of Brotherhood members as terrorists, along with xenophobic accusations against Syrian and Palestinian refugees.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The July 8 killing of 51 Muslim Brotherhood supporters is the subject of a recent expos\u00c3\u00a9<\/a> by Guardian<\/em> reporter Patrick Kingsley, who, through the examination of video evidence and interviews with eyewitnesses, medics and demonstrators, has uncovered the story of a “coordinated assault on largely peaceful civilians.”<\/p>\n

You can follow protest updates live on twitter:<\/p>\n

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Republished with permission from: Common Dreams<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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