The Unrest in Egypt Thread 2013

So, they have their freedom (again)... Will they vote in someone new (again) and throw him out after a year (again)? Let's watch...
 
Army ousts Egypt's President Morsi

Army ousts Egypt's President Morsi

The head of Egypt's army has given a TV address, announcing that President Mohammed Morsi is no longer in office.

Gen Abdul Fattah al-Sisi said the constitution had been suspended and the chief justice of the constitutional court would take on Mr Morsi's powers.

Flanked by religious and opposition leaders, Gen Sisi said Mr Morsi had "failed to meet the demands of the Egyptian people".

Anti-Morsi protesters in Cairo gave a huge cheer in response to the speech.

The army's move to depose the president follows four days of mass street demonstrations against Mr Morsi, and an ultimatum issued by the military which expired on Wednesday afternoon.

TV stations belonging to Mr Morsi's Muslim Brotherhood went off air at the end of the speech.

Minutes later, a notice went up on Mr Morsi's Facebook page denouncing the army move as a "military coup".

The statement asked Egyptian citizens - both civilians and military - to "abide by the constitution and the law and not to respond to this coup".

The ousted leader's current whereabouts are unclear.

'Roadmap' for the future

General Sisi said on state TV that the armed forces could not stay silent and blind to the call of the Egyptian masses.

He spoke of a new roadmap for the future, and said that the chief justice of the Supreme Constitutional Court, Adli Mansour, would be given the task of "running the country's affairs during the transitional period until the election of a new president".

After Gen Sisi's address, both Pope Tawadros II - the head of the Coptic Church - and leading opposition figure Mohammed ElBaradei made short televised speeches about the new roadmap for Egypt's future which they had agreed with the army.

Mr ElBaradei said the roadmap aimed for national reconciliation and represented a fresh start to the January 2011 revolution.

"This roadmap has been drafted by honourable people who seek the interests, first and foremost, of the country," added Pope Tawadros.

Fireworks

The army is currently involved in a show of force, fanning out across Cairo and taking control of the capital, BBC correspondent Quentin Sommerville reports.

He described seeing eight armoured personnel carriers heading for Cairo University in Giza, where one of the main pro-Morsi demonstrations was being held.

The tens of thousands of anti-Morsi protesters on the streets of Cairo are now celebrating, with fireworks lighting up the night sky and car drivers honking their horns in excitement.

But Morsi supporters elsewhere in the city are reported to have shouted: "No to military rule.''
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Well, they did say they were going to... :erm:
 
Well they said he must comply or they will remove him, he refused to move so they removed him.

Good, no government should force religion on their people. Glad to see them making a stand and ensuring they do not become an islamic state with shariah law. He had more than enough time to come to a solution with other political leaders but the army told him do something or you gone. turkey is the exact same.

Boom gone. Morsi can't say this is a coup, they gave him time to find a solution.

Israel will be fine, just hope Egyptians don't start civil war over this.

http://rt.com/op-edge/morsi-sharia-c...ion-egypt-409/ democracy does not include forcing religion on a country.
 
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killadoob said:
Have you seen the protestors bro, hundreds and thousands of them, it is crazy there could be as many as a million perhaps more on both side(collectively) but that is unconfirmed, that number is just a figure i have come up with. You can only fit so many people into one place i guess. The place is just filled with bodies bro, check out rt.com they have some stunning pictures as do many networks of the protesters. It looks like a rave with aviici(dj) or however it's spell but 10x more people.

If the population is 35 million, then it is amazing they have a petition signed by 22 million Egyptian people. Wait sorry the population of Cairo, let me fix my mistake quick. Sorry 85 million live in egypt just had to google it i got confused with cairo but 1/4 of the population signed a petition, that is insane, i wonder if there has been a petition signed by that many people before?
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85m includes children, illiterate, etc.
I reckon 22 million is well over 50% of the voting population
 
Haldex said:
Israel must be ****ting themselves.
I wonder what's their plans...
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Why would they be ****ting themselves?
The military under Mubarak was a peace partner for decades.
The Muslim Brotherhood is essentially powerless, in favor of more moderate, less Islamist leaders.
Israel is probably okay with this.
 
I'm glad they've sorted it out for now. I'm heading there in 2 weeks' time and was hoping the country wouldn't be completely destabilized.
 
TJ99 said:
So, they have their freedom (again)... Will they vote in someone new (again) and throw him out after a year (again)? Let's watch...
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The idiots will probably vote for another brotherhood dude, that's what they did last time. The evils of democracy.
 
za1 said:
I'm guessing morsi is regretting his decision appointing General Abdel Fattah al-Sisi as the army chief and defense minister. Must have completely misjudged here.

al jazeera profile can be found here:
http://www.aljazeera.com/news/middleeast/2013/07/201373112752442652.html
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No he is regretting trying to enforce sharia on the people of egypt. That is the reason they want him gone. He has done nothing but try force sharia into the constitution. Turkey is in a similar position.

Voicy the shyte may only be starting, i would not bank on egypt being a friendly place in two weeks. It is destabilized in a big way. it really depends on the pro morsi supporters though, will they seek peace or start something forcing the army to do something about them.
 
The problem I can see is that there is no single opposition party. If they do vote in a couple months, even if the brotherhood only get 30% of the vote, they may have the most and then they're back to square one.
 
agentrfr said:
The problem I can see is that there is no single opposition party. If they do vote in a couple months, even if the brotherhood only get 30% of the vote, they may have the most and then they're back to square one.
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That's exactly what's gonna happen.
 
BLIXEMPIE said:
I can only dream of South Africans taking a stand like this against our disaster of a government.
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No. Our constitution is fine. This was a fight against the non-secular, non-liberal and mob rule enshrined in the constitution. This has actually got nothing to do with the democratic process at all.

I couldn't be happier from Egypt. Hopefully this time they take a leaf out of South Africa's book in creating a constitution. Then they can vote in any person they want.
 
I'm all for revolutions, but isn't this kind of the risk of democracy? The majority elects a paluka and the rest have to suck it up. I'm not too clued up about the events leading up to this. What specific sharia law was he trying to promulgate? Is it even realistic to expect a secular state with such an overwhelmingly Muslim populace? Turkey is a different story historically and culturally.
 
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