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| Protestors riot when Egyptian court sentences 21 previous rioters to death, January 26 2013. |
The Mainstream Media in the Western World showered the Muslim Brotherhood with heaps of praise leading up to (and after) its landslide victory in the national elections. Countless big name reporters talked about how the moderate, freedom loving, hardly religious anymore, modern Muslim Brotherhood was going to lead Egypt into an era of prosperity and peace. Major newspapers and networks had many special reports on how the Muslim Brotherhood was a force of peace and moderation and that it was going to help build Egypt into a nation comparable to many in the west. Meanwhile, many conservative writers who know the reality of the Middle East worried that Egypt would end up just like Iran with an all powerful theocracy ruling the nation with a Sharia-based iron fist. In that case, freedom, civil rights and peace would be destroyed, the exact opposite of what the Mainstream Media glowingly expected.
Sure enough, Egypt's President Morsi of the Muslim Brotherhood quickly went down the road of hardlined extremism, as I noted in a previous blog post (Arab Spring Backfires In Egypt). He basically made him and his government immune to all judicial and lawful checks and balances. Whatever the Muslim Brotherhood wanted would be law, with no need for the messiness of democratic councils or regulation. This move prompted riots and protests throughout Egypt as people compared Morsi to the ousted former President Mubarak. Meanwhile, Egypt voted on and widely accepted a new constitution that was entirely based upon Muslim Sharia law and in no way comparable to the constitutions of western nations when it comes to freedom and justice.
This past week (January 26, 2013) Egypt's federal court decided what it was going to do about the people that rioted last year at an Egyptian soccer game (which was partly based on discontent with President Morsi and the Muslim Brotherhood). 21 of the 73 people charged have now been sentenced to death (usually done by hanging). The rest of the rioters still await their sentences.
The Blaze: Egyptian Court Sentences Nearly 2 Dozen to Death For Soccer Violence
In response to this shocking news, MORE riots broke out across Egypt and resulted in another 50 deaths. Meanwhile, Morsi went on television practically screaming his rage at the protestors and is threatening to do everything in his power to stop and crush them. He has since announced a State of Emergency over the newest riots, which allows him to bring in the Egyptian military. Martial law for the Muslim Brotherhood win!...
The Blaze: Egypt's President Declares State of Emergency As Violence Intensifies
This is "democracy", "freedom", and "moderation", Middle Eastern style, exactly as conservative bloggers and news reporters expected and dreaded. Meanwhile, the Mainstream Media in the west is doing its very best to stick to its original angle on Egypt and the Arab Spring by painting the new batch of rioters as a small group of anarchists who aren't happy no matter what happens. Amazing isn't it? Rioting Egyptians were praised and honoured by the media in the Arab Spring to throw out the harsh dictator Mubarak, but now under the harsh tyranny of the Muslim Brotherhood, the media vilifies the protestors. Of course this makes the protestors all the more furious. They never got the freedom they hoped for and to top it all off, their biggest ally, the western media, is now against them.
Quick Addition to Original Blog Post...
Canada Free Press: Egypt Erupts Against The Islamist Regime Favored By Obama
Last Sunday Obama said these shockingly self congratulatory words in a Sixty Minutes interview.
“You know, when it comes to Egypt, I think, had it not been for the leadership we showed, you might have seen a different outcome there.”
Keep deluding yourself there President Obama. You created a monster. Unless that was the plan all along, Egypt's "Arab Spring" (so far) is an absolute disaster.
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Arab Spring Backfires In Egypt
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