[Freakinoldguy]

Jabberwalker Jabberwalker:

The lesson the Egyptian military needs to take away from this is to shut down cell phone communications and then revoke the visas for the foreign press who keep making the islamists look like the victims.


They would but they're in denile.

[BartSimpson]

xerxes xerxes:

Sadly that's true. But then again, it's also China. Egypt is trying to be a democracy and this kind of behaviour from the military isn't exactly a good foundation to rebuilt a country on.

Hmm. To a lesser degree but in the same sentiment, in the USA after the Revolution before we could get started on building a republic the first thing we did was to show the Loyal Monarchists to the door. Can't hardly have a republic that includes people who violently oppose the idea, can you?

Emigration doesn't seem to be an option with the MB so it stands to reason that the military is doing the best they can to make Egypt safe for democracy by first eradicating those who oppose the very notion of democracy.

Sooner or later the islamists will confront us in our countries with just such a choice of doing something quite undemocratic against people who oppose democracy.

[BartSimpson]

DrCaleb DrCaleb:

S.O.P. is it not? Bad things happen to you, take it out on some minority or another.

Yep. The next time something bad happens to me I'm a git me one of them f*ckers from Lichtenstein! Hate those guys!

[saturn_656]

Egypt's democratic experiment wouldn't last long with the Muslim Brotherhood running the show. Things were already rapidly going south by the time the military stepped in.

[martin14]

saturn_656 saturn_656:

Egypt's democratic experiment wouldn't last long with the Muslim Brotherhood running the show. Things were already rapidly going south by the time the military stepped in.

Most people tend to miss the fact that groups like the MB and it's offshoots,
like Hamas, have no real interest in democracy at all.

[CanadianJeff]

ShepherdsDog ShepherdsDog:

Are there going to be enough virgins?

Considering most of these slime balls have never willingly had a woman engage with them I imagine god will just start pairing up the virgin men with each other.

[martin14]

xerxes xerxes:

235 civilians dead, 43 police so far. Here's hoping day two doesn't get any worse. If that's possible at this point.

525 dead.

Today looks quiet, but tomorrow is Friday.

[DrCaleb]

$1:

Supporters of Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood stormed and torched a government building in Cairo on Thursday, while families tried to identify hundreds of mutilated bodies piled in a Cairo mosque a day after they were shot dead by the security forces.

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/wor ... e13793129/

[martin14]

Well, it's Friday, and guess what..


http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-23721584

Egypt crisis: Deaths as Cairo violence resumes



Deaths from Wednesday is now up to 638.

[ShepherdsDog]

Had Morsi and the Muslim Mob remained in power these numbers would have been much higher over a longer period of time. Revolutions are rarely bloodless, and this conflict has deeply divided Egypt with Fundamentalists on one side, and moderates, secularists and minorities on the other. The death toll s going to get higher yet.

[BartSimpson]

ShepherdsDog ShepherdsDog:

Had Morsi and the Muslim Mob remained in power these numbers would have been much higher over a longer period of time. Revolutions are rarely bloodless, and this conflict has deeply divided Egypt with Fundamentalists on one side, and moderates, secularists and minorities on the other. The death toll s going to get higher yet.

IMHO, the Egyptian military is doing the job of killing off the fundamentalists that the West is unwilling to do. Just maybe therw will be a chance for actual moderate islam to arise out of this mess. Maybe.

[Public_Domain]