Egypt: Tens of Thousands of Muslim Brotherhood And Secular Protesters Clash In Tahrir Square…
My money’s on the Islamists.
CAIRO (AP) – Muslim Brotherhood supporters and secular protesters hurled bottles and rocks at each other and got into fistfights in Cairo’s Tahrir Square on Friday as their political differences boiled over at a rally by tens of thousands marking an anniversary in the uprising that toppled Hosni Mubarak.
The scuffles, in which there were no reports of injury, were the first time the two sides have come to blows over resentments that have been rising between them since they worked together during the 18 days of protests against Mubarak a year ago.
Now they are locked in a competition to shape the transition. The differences do not focus on the Brotherhood’s religious agenda—though it worries many in the other camp. Instead, the divisions are over the military, which have ruled since Mubarak’s fall, and ultimately whether dramatic change will be brought to Egypt’s long autocratic system.
The “revolutionaries,” the leftist and secular activists who launched the anti-Mubarak revolt, now demand the ruling generals quit power immediately and have vowed protests to force them out. The Brotherhood, meanwhile, has vaulted to political domination by winning the largest bloc in the new parliament and has been willing to let the military follow its own timetable for stepping down.
The revolutionaries suspect the Brotherhood will strike a deal with the ruling generals—giving them a future say in politics to ensure the Brotherhood’s hold on authority and influence on the writing of a new constitution, effective shelving serious reform. They also bristle over what they see as the Brotherhood’s attempts to monopolize the political scene.
Nevertheless, the two sides have been uneasily trying to share Tahrir Square this week since a giant rally Wednesday marking the Jan. 25 start of the anti-Mubarak protests. But on a new rally Friday, tempers broke.
“Out, out, out!” revolutionaries chanted at the Brotherhood’s main stage in the square, holding their shoes in the air in a sign of contempt at a line of Brothers forming a human chain in front of the podium.
“Dogs of the military council,” others chanted at the Brothers.
The political differences have translated into a dispute over the very meaning of the anniversary. The Brotherhood has presented this week as a celebration of the revolution’s successes—particularly their own parliament victory. The secular groups say there is nothing to celebrate when so many demands of the revolution are left unachieved and killings of protesters have gone unpunished.
The fights erupted over the Brotherhood’s giant stage in the square, bristling with loudspeakers. Some protesters complain the Brotherhood sought to drown out other protesters by blaring religious anthems, Quranic recitations and music.
Others were angered a celebratory banner on the stage proclaiming, “Holiday of the Revolution.” Another note of triumphalism that irritated many was a song played repeatedly celebrating the military’s victories in the 1973 war with Israel and proclaiming “may the victory be bigger” in the revolution.
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Just think if the leftists ACLU had a HQ in the middle east they wouldnt last long their all INFEDELS
“…The “revolutionaries,” the leftist and secular activists who launched the anti-Mubarak revolt, now demand the ruling generals quit power …”
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Soetoro really bit off more than he bargained for… by poking this hornets nest
Get ready for the same actions here! Obama will unleash his goons before to long, you’ve seen the first step and now its time for the second step (which they keep warning us about)!
Sounds like the “Civil War” meme that we heard so much about in Iraq for the last 8 years….
Give them all AK-47′s and let them go after each other, last man or men
standing receives all the spoils of war….
We must root for both sides to show our fairness and keep the battle flowing
until a winner is crowned or the last mooselim is laid to rest with his 72 V’s..
I have a serious question….who are we suppose to root for?
I’m thinking a 0-0 tie, like dapper dan said give them all AK-47′s. I’ll add unlimited ammo, as long as they stay in the mid-east and out of Israel.
I suppose they are 99%er Jew haters. Fck em all.
Just look at what happened to the ‘secularists’ in iran.
Chewed up and spit out by the hardline thugs.
There will be no power sharing in the m.e. The MoBros are going to rule with the sword everywhere.
“Moderate” muzz don’t stand a chance. They will conform or be cut down.
Don’t be fooled into thinking that these “secular” Muslims are much different than the full blown Islamo-crazies of the Salafists and Muslim Brotherhood.
They are all Muslims; they are just fighting over power, and well.. because they’re Muslims, and all Muslims know how to do is fight and kill and maim and torture each other.
@Rufus
A really nice hot chick just started where I work. She’s from Turkey and I started talking her. I found out she was a moosie.
She’s no longer that hot…..
@ NWMN…
A female muzz with a job that has her working with infidel males?
Her days are numbered… I wouldn’t stand too close to her.
Can’t we just give them some of the F&F guns we didn’t sell to Mexican drug gangs and let them shoot themselves???
The secular morons got the revolution they wanted. Not what they expected. The left in this country should take note. If the left gets everything they want, there will never be elections or free speech again.
Of course the brotherhood has the edge. Don’t forget the Obama regime gives them money and advice. So do various leftist/communist organizations.
The army is never going to give up power. They have the money, and they have the guns. Watch for a violent supression of disent and the rise of a new “Mubarack” type leader.
Now with the military rulers of Egypt now vilifying all foreign influence, the secular Egyptians aren’t likely to see any foreign help.
They will be at the mercy of the Islamists along with everyone else. The whole world could see this coming from 1,000 miles away. So why didn’t Egyptian socialists?
Why were European and American socialists so naive as to think that they could negotiate with Islamists? Why would they believe a partnership with radical Islam against “the evil capitalists”, or “Zionist conspirators” was possible?
The only thing that will come of this is an ISLAMIC DICTATORSHIP! Thanks obama, your foreign policy has been fantastic!
most (but not all) Leftists/liberals are motivated by strong ego needs
— needs for power, attention, praise and fame.
And in the US and other developed countries
they satisfy this need by advocating large changes in the society around them
– thus drawing attention to themselves
and hopefully causing themselves to be seen as wise, innovative, caring etc.
So, you mean the Liberal social arsonists are about to be consumed by the fire they lit, shocking. I’d feel pity for them, but I’m far too busy preparing to fight the raging wildfire they have caused. I can take a bit of time to pray for the poor Copts that are about to be devoured though, God preserve them and their families.
Here we go….they had a small period of real freedom that they used to set in place at least a century of brutal repression.
Please note the complete absence of women in that picture. Unlike those pictures of the protests against Mubarek. I guess the Muslim Brotherhood and Salafists are already wielding their power.
It will take at least 14 centuries to bring the towel heads into the 21st century. Beam me up, Scotty.
I can’t bet on the Secularists, I don’t believe they are as murderous as the Islamists, nor do they have the murderous God Authorized doctrines (like Marxism) to inspire them to be more murderous than the Islamists. Egypt is going to be another Hell on Earth!
‘Slums being ‘slums. May they get sharia rammed up them six ways from Sunday.
Maybe muslims can blame their violent,psychotic behavior on drugs instead of islam :
Culturally the use of drugs is far more widely accepted in the Muslim world than alcohol is. The Ayatollah Khomeini even ruled that, “Wine and all other intoxicating beverages are impure, but opium and hashish are not.” In some countries drug use is so widespread that it has practically become a national identity. That is the case with Qat in Yemen, a plant-based amphetamine whose use is so widespread that its cultivation consumes nearly half the country’s water supply.
http://frontpagemag.com/2012/01/27/the-islamic-paradise-of-the-needle-and-powder/
Or something……
…following on that, maybe a combo of all of it? The drugs, the demonic, etc.
added to your info. recalled sometime back about kids as little as 14 months being heroine addicts.
http://www.e-ariana.com/ariana/eariana.nsf/allDocs/EAFEACC18AA79AFB8725770B0063669F?OpenDocument
Will the muslims burn evolutionists for their radical ideas?
LIKE THE GIGHAN DOG AND CALICO CAT WILL THEY END UP EATING EACH OTHER UP?