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Jasmine Juo

International reactions to Morsi's removal - Middle East - Al Jazeera English - 2 views

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  • Jasmine Juo on 16 Jul 13
     
    Reactions from a number of countries.
Jen Frey

The Perils of a 'People's Coup' in Egypt / UCLA Today - 0 views

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  • The Egyptian Army claims that it had no choice but to overthrow the country’s first legitimately elected president, Mohamed Morsi, and that last week’s coup reflected the will of the Egyptian people.
  • But Mr. Morsi’s fall does not bode well for the future of Egypt and democracy in the region.
  • By stepping in to remove an unpopular president, the Egyptian Army reaffirmed a despotic tradition in the Middle East: Army officers decide what the country needs, and they always know best.
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  • The army has assured the United States and the world that it won’t intervene in politics again after this coup. It has called upon all Egyptians to come together, to forget their differences, and not to seek vengeance.
  • However, while spouting this lofty rhetoric, the army has completely flouted the basic principles of the rule of law.
  • one of the army’s first acts was to close down all media that the military, in its infinite wisdom, deemed a danger to public order.
  • Secularists across the Middle East have traditionally failed at the ballot box because they lacked support among the pious masses and instead had to rely on the repressive might of the military.
  • The predictable result has been radicalization of the Islamists, after they lose trust in the hallowed principles of democracy and human rights.
  • How can Islamists be included when they are being jailed, and why should they engage in the democratic process when they know that if they win elections, the military and judiciary will likely intervene once more to neutralize them?
  • Democracy is not founded upon the principle of safeguarding the rights of the popular, but upon safeguarding the rights of the most unpopular. What so many Egyptians are forgetting is that the same "public interest" that justified the overthrow and persecution of one political party today will tomorrow justify the repression of anyone who questions the power of Egypt’s army and judiciary.
  • Jen Frey on 14 Jul 13
     
    Preempting the "will of the people" or legitimate support for removal? Army and judiciary in Egypt linked with authoritarianism. Urge for caution.
Roger Grande

Egypt in Year Three | Middle East Research and Information Project - 0 views

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  • The bill of indictment against Mursi included complaints about Islamism, but otherwise looked rather like the list of grievances against Mubarak. After prevailing at the ballot box in 2011-2012, Mursi and the Muslim Brothers had enacted a purely majoritarian view of democracy: We won fair and square, so the rest of you should quiet down and trust us to protect your prerogatives. When this message, understandably, alienated Egyptians secular and pious, liberals, Copts, many women and even some unaffiliated Islamists, the Brothers reacted with clumsy efforts to concentrate power in their own hands. Meanwhile, they made no attempt to defang the Mubarak-era police state, instead cutting sordid deals with the SCAF and the various security services. Not only freedom but the other main revolutionary demands, as well, went unaddressed -- there was no more bread than under Mubarak and certainly no more social justice. The Brothers, in fact, had no economic ideas beyond what they inherited by default from Mubarak’s neoliberal cabinets. They may very well have pursued the dismantlement of the welfare state in cooperation with the International Monetary Fund and global capital.
  • Roger Grande on 18 Jul 13
     
    Ironic, since the US govt has been a major reason since Sadat for Egypt not becoming a Democracy
Kate Leslie

Egypt's New Government Doesn't Include Muslim Brotherhood - 0 views

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  • Kate Leslie on 19 Jul 13
     
    Even as analysts credited some of the ministers for their competence and for bringing badly needed expertise to Egypt's escalating economic crisis after a year of mismanagement, the composition of the cabinet exposed it to the same criticisms once heaped on Mr. Morsi: that he excluded his opponents from governing and, in the process, demolished any sense of political consensus. The government's legitimacy "is going to be very hard to measure," said Zaid al-Ali, a Cairo-based constitutional expert with the International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance. "Under normal circumstances, the government would be accountable to the people, through elections and the media," he said. "Now there is no parliamentary institution. The only institution that can hold government accountable is the people, through demonstrations." "Legitimacy," he said, "is hanging by a thread."
Felicia Quesada

U.S. imperialism and the coup in Egypt Need for revolutionary leadership - 1 views

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  • Felicia Quesada on 21 Jul 13
     
    An article from the party for socialism and liberation, so it's pretty biased towards the left, but it nicely breaks down where there is support for the removal and where there isn't.
Christina Andersen

Thousands rally in Cairo over the removal of Morsi - The National - 0 views

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  • If it seeks to clear the sit-ins by force, it risks more deaths of citizens and greater international pressure from foreign governments already uneasy about the detentions of Mr Morsi, several of his aides and many of the Brotherhood's leadership.
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      Christina Andersen on 21 Jul 13
       
      How should interim government respond to continued protests in the streets?
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