Egypt: Muslim Brotherhoods call for protests on Friday
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The Muslim Brotherhood (MB) in Egypt called on Wednesday to protest across the country on Friday against a full-length U.S. film deemed insulting to Islam. Yesterday, the U.S. ambassador in Libya and three other members of the diplomatic staff were killed in Benghazi during demonstrations to protest against the same film.
For its part, the Egyptian government denounced the film, but called for "restraint."
The MB, from whose ranks come President Mohamed Morsi, called in a statement for "peaceful demonstrations Friday in front of the main mosques in Egypt to denounce the insults against religion and the Prophet."
Earlier, protesters denounced the Coptic Christians in a rally held Wednesday in Cairo against the film. The Maspero Youth Union and the Coalition of Egyptian Coptic have condemned "all forms of contempt against any religion whatsoever, and any attempt to sow discord between people of different faiths."
The Maspero Youth Union also called on its Facebook page for a rally this evening in front of the U.S. Embassy in Cairo to protest against the film, which is "insulting Islam and the Prophet Muhammad."
The film was produced by an Israeli-American who describes Islam as a "cancer."
The Maspero Youth Union said that "the Copts who took part in the production of the film in question are not representative of the vast majority of Copts. They represent neither Christianity nor the church, nor the Coptic diaspora. " This film, however, may raise the pressure on Egypt's Christians, who represent about 10% of the 82 million people.
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We should soupprt the revolution in Syria. Ms. Glick didn't mention the longstanding history of rather insane Syrian warfare against Israel -- from the 1948 War of Independence onwards. Syria has always been Israel's worst enemy,The West should at least give the Syrian dissidents moral and logistical soupprt. My feeling is is that, if the dissidents lose, there is going to be a huge bloodbath in that country. And the West, and in particular the Western liberal media, will ignore Syria. If and when the dissidents lose, Israel should step in and undertake a premetive stike against suspected chemical weapons. I am surprised they haven't done so already,
There seems to be a common thared running through these attempts at change regimes. Those in the ME that were pro or ambivalent about Iran seem to be on the teeter-totter as well as those, excepting Saudi, that have tried to be perhaps too accommodating in the past re the USA.It's something like the double con job poker game on the train to Chicago in "The Sting". There is more than just a really crooked deal upcoming. If I was Israel, I would expect to be "Gadaffied" one of these days with an all star cast of leftists, Israeli Arabs, Palestinians, et al, sobbing and rending their garments and putting on a great show while the MSM laps it all up.
