Egypt A Complete Disaster

I've been following the news coming out of Egypt on my blog ever since Mubarak was thrown out of power 2 years during the Arab Spring. I expected, as many conservative writers did, that Egypt would be taken over by hardlined religious Muslims and that Egypt would become like Iran where freedom is practically non-existent. News out of Egypt continues to be on that same troubling path.


World Net Daily (Feb 7, 2013):  'Insulting Quran' Charges Snares 2 More Children

An Egyptian court is forcing two Coptic Christian boys, ages 10 and 9, to stand trial for “insulting the Quran,”

The two boys will stand trial in Beni Suef, the same town where a woman and her seven children were convicted and sentenced in December to 15 years for converting to Christianity.

In Egypt, children are now going to jail for insulting Islam or for converting to Christianity.


Telegraph (Feb 2, 2013):  Cairo Horrified By Pictures Showing Police Beating Naked Man

Television pictures showing a middle-aged man lying stripped naked and being beaten by police before being hurled into their van rocked Egypt yesterday, the latest gruesome twist in the country's descent into public disorder.

Stories of police brutality against protestors and people disagreeing with Morsi and his Muslim Brotherhood are all over the place. Rapes, beatings, threats against family. There's no low that the government doesn't seem willing to stoop to in order to try and silence opposition to its rule.


Telegraph (Feb 5, 2013):  Ahmadinejad Visits Egypt, Signaling Realignment

President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s historic three-day trip to Egypt, the first in three decades by an Iranian leader, started pleasantly enough on Tuesday. 

Egypt’s president, Mohamed Morsi, greeted Mr. Ahmadinejad with a broad smile during a red-carpet ceremony at a Cairo airport. The two talked about the crisis in Syria and how to improve the relationship between their own countries, which has been in a deep freeze since the Iranian revolution in 1979.

For the first time in three decades, Iran's leader has visited Egypt and been welcomed by Egypt's government. Iran is the terrorist capital of the Middle East and one of the worst countries when it comes to repressing its people and freedom. The fact that Egypt is now buddying up with Iran is not at all a surprise.


Reuters  (Feb 17, 2013):  Alcohol Sale To Be Banned In Egypt's New Suburbs

Two years after the Egyptian revolution that ousted an authoritarian regime, liberals are increasingly concerned that the ruling Islamists are out to curb personal freedoms and build a society in their own image.

Alcohol, prohibited by most Islamic scholars, is one area where the new authorities are introducing controversial change.

Nabil Abbas, the vice president of the New Urban Communities Authorities (NUCA), told Reuters on Sunday that the government would no longer issue licences for the sale of alcohol in new residential settlements on the outskirts of Cairo, Alexandria and other big cities.

Egyptians opposed to the country's Islamist leaders condemned the move as an infringement on personal freedoms.

Freedoms that most people in the world take for granted are being blocked and made illegal in Egypt under the rule of the Muslim Brotherhood. Alcohol is just one prime example. The government is out of control, taking over and dominating the country in every way it can, making hardlined Islam the only law. Christian families that have lived in Egypt since Bible times are fleeing for their lives. The economy, which was heavily dependent on tourism, has taken a dive because people are no longer visiting Egypt out of fear.

This result in Egypt should make us all seriously wonder about how truthful and/or accurate the mainstream media actually is, because they saw the Arab Spring as being a wonderful revolution of freedom, democracy and civil rights. Instead it's turning Egypt into Iran, like the non-mainstream media knew it would. So if CNN and the BBC got this so horribly wrong. What else are their so called experts getting wrong in the news they report?...