Posts Tagged: ikhwan
The MOD sit-in: Sometimes with the Islamists, Never with the State
During the Monday march in solidarity with the Abbassiya detainees, a young comrade I know from Cairo University, a medical student who was among the field hospital doctors during the MOD sit-in, approached me, and told me the story of a Salafi woman in niqab, who kept on kissing the Revolutionary Socialists red flag during
Read on »Religion in service of the state
Just like in April 2008, and 25 January 2011, both Al-Azhar and the Coptic Church, the two main arms of the state’s religious establishment, have come out to denounce the calls for general strike and civil disobedience planned on 11 February 2012. Add to the list of course, the Muslim Brotherhood. Their leadership did not
Read on »Parliament protesters denounce SCAF and MB
Rage continues in parliament street
Thousands of protesters descended on the parliament today, calling for the continuation of the revolution, the execution of Field Marshal Tantawi, the prosecution of the SCAF generals, as well as social demands related to the renationalization of privatized factories, self management and setting a national minimum wage of at least LE1,200. The protesters also denounced
Read on »Courting Washington
The MBs, our future liberators of Jerusalem, with Jon Kerry in Cairo.
Read on »The Muslim Brotherhood and the Egyptian Revolution
Alexandria’s Carnival of Reaction and Bigotry
The Islamists in Alexandria were no different from their brethren in Tahrir on Friday.
Read on »The Friday of Reaction and Bigotry
What was originally announced as a “Friday of Unity” was anything but that. You can call it, the Friday of Disunity, The Friday of Bigotry and Reaction, the Friday of Religious Fanaticism. For weeks, the Islamist forces, without exception, have been denouncing the Tahrir sit-in, spreading all sorts of cheap, filthy, sensationalist lies against the
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