Follow along with the video below to see how to install our site as a web app on your home screen.
Note: This feature currently requires accessing the site using the built-in Safari browser.
That country's president is a conservative Islamist walking a fine line between acting as a moderate peace broker and keeping his Muslim Brotherhood party happy with anti-American rhetoric.
The White House last summer had hoped to smooth over some of the traditional tensions between Washington and the Brotherhood, when Egypt overthrew dictator Hosni Mubarak (HOHS'-nee moo-BAH'-rahk) and picked Mohammed Morsi as its first democratically elected leader.
But a spate of recent steps from Brotherhood-led attacks on protesters to revelations of old comments by Morsi referring to Jews as "bloodsuckers" and "pigs" have raised alarm among senior U.S. officials and threatens $1 billion in American aid to Egypt.
Read more: Washington casts wary eye at Muslim Brotherhood - StamfordAdvocate
In his seven months since becoming Egypt's first freely elected president, Mohammed Morsi has weathered a series of crises. But the liberal opposition is now betting the backlash against him is so severe that he and his Muslim Brotherhood will be forced to change their ways, breaking what critics say is their monopolizing of power. Critics claim that Morsi's woes are mostly self-inflicted, calling him overconfident and out of sync with the public. Now the relatively high death toll - around 60 - the spread of protests and the use of excessive force by the police are feeding a wave of anger at the Egyptian leader and the Brotherhood, the Islamist group from which he hails and which is the foundation of his administration.
Morsi did not help matters when he addressed the nation Sunday night in a brief but angry address in which he at times screamed and wagged his finger. In that speech, he slapped a 30-day state of emergency and curfew on three Suez Canal provinces hit the hardest by the violence and vowed to take even harsher measures if peace is not restored. In response, the three cities defied the president in a rare open rebellion that handed him an embarrassing loss of face. Thousands in the cities of Port Said, Ismailiya and Suez took to the streets on Monday and Tuesday just as the 9 p.m. curfew went into force. Underlining their contempt for him, they played soccer games, stores stayed open and there were even firework displays - all while troops deployed in Port Said and Suez stood by and watched.
Morsi was forced to back down somewhat and authorized the local governors to ease the measures. All three quickly did on Wednesday, reducing the hours of curfew from nine hours to as short as three. The main opposition coalition, the National Salvation Front, demands Morsi create a national unity government and rewrite controversial parts of the constitution that the Brotherhood and other Islamists rammed through to approval last month. A broader government, they insist, is the only way to ease the violence and start dealing with Egypt's mounting woes - particularly, an economy many fear is collapsing.
The liberals gained an unusual ally on Wednesday: one of the main political parties of the ultraconservative Islamist movement known as Salafis, the al-Nour Party, which has usually supported Morsi. Morsi appears to see no need for concessions. On a quick visit to Germany on Wednesday, he downplayed the significance of the week's violence. "What is happening now in Egypt is natural in nations experiencing a shift to democracy," Morsi told reporters in Berlin. There is no need to form a unity government, he added, because a new government will be formed after parliament elections - expected in April at the earliest.
MORE
Is anybody outraged that Obama gave $1.5 billion of our tax money to a terrorist regime that wants us all dead? How many jobless Americans could have been fed with that money?
That's the best you can do?Is anybody outraged that Obama gave $1.5 billion of our tax money to a terrorist regime that wants us all dead? How many jobless Americans could have been fed with that money?
Now that rightwingers have created some fantasy that Obama is funding terrorists they suddenly care about welfare for jobless Americans?
That's the best you can do?Is anybody outraged that Obama gave $1.5 billion of our tax money to a terrorist regime that wants us all dead? How many jobless Americans could have been fed with that money?
Now that rightwingers have created some fantasy that Obama is funding terrorists they suddenly care about welfare for jobless Americans?
Is anybody outraged that Obama gave $1.5 billion of our tax money to a terrorist regime that wants us all dead? How many jobless Americans could have been fed with that money?
New Ad Implies Obama Is Cozy With Muslim Brotherhood
New Ad Implies Obama Is Cozy With Muslim Brotherhood - Washington Whispers (usnews.com)
Muslim Brotherhood - YouTube
New Ad Implies Obama Is Cozy With Muslim Brotherhood
New Ad Implies Obama Is Cozy With Muslim Brotherhood - Washington Whispers (usnews.com)
Muslim Brotherhood - YouTube
I don't need an ad to convince me the bastard loves Muslims. Hussein is a Muslim name.
Is anybody outraged that Obama gave $1.5 billion of our tax money to a terrorist regime that wants us all dead? How many jobless Americans could have been fed with that money?
New Ad Implies Obama Is Cozy With Muslim Brotherhood
New Ad Implies Obama Is Cozy With Muslim Brotherhood - Washington Whispers (usnews.com)
Muslim Brotherhood - YouTube
I don't need an ad to convince me the bastard loves Muslims. Hussein is a Muslim name.
Is anybody outraged that Obama gave $1.5 billion of our tax money to a terrorist regime that wants us all dead? How many jobless Americans could have been fed with that money?
That's been going on since the 80's. Probably well before that, but I wasn't around for it.
It's a reasonable discussion but a separate one.
And you on the right can't have it both ways. He's been listening to a radical black baptist minister or the muslim brotherhood?
Get your fucking conspiracies straight for fucks sake!
And you on the right can't have it both ways. He's been listening to a radical black baptist minister or the muslim brotherhood?
Get your fucking conspiracies straight for fucks sake!
And you on the right can't have it both ways. He's been listening to a radical black baptist minister or the muslim brotherhood?
Get your fucking conspiracies straight for fucks sake!
They need something. They can't just come out and say they want that n-word out of the White House.
Is anybody outraged that Obama gave $1.5 billion of our tax money to a terrorist regime that wants us all dead? How many jobless Americans could have been fed with that money?
