The crazy Muslims in Egypt are at it again… I suppose after the madness dissipates people will have time to “re-charge” their batteries to do it all again a year from now.
One thing is for sure: It should be quite obvious to everyone that Muslims cannot govern themselves. How could they, when their screwed-up faith (Islam) is always present. TGO
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By Michael Birnbaum and Abigail Hauslohner, Updated: Monday, July 8, 6:51 AM E-mail the writers
CAIRO — Renewed violence erupted in Egypt early Monday after gunmen opened fire on supporters of ousted president Mohamed Morsi outside the Republican Guard headquarters where the supporters believe Morsi is being held.
At least 40 people were killed and 300 people were injured, according to a spokesman for the Ministry of Health. Mahmoud Zaqzooq, a spokesman for the pro-Morsi Muslim Brotherhood, which organized the protest, said 53 people had been killed, including five children.
The circumstances of the incident were in dispute. Muslim Brotherhood officials said protesters were attacked as they prepared for a peaceful dawn prayer. But a military spokesman said an armed group from the pro-Morsi camp attacked troops around the Republican Guard Headquarters, leading to one soldier’s death, and that the military responded with force afterward. That account was strenuously denied by a Muslim Brotherhood spokesman on Twitter.
The ultra-conservative Salafist Nour party, which was the only Islamist political group to support Morsi’s ouster last week, responding to the violence by saying it was pulling out of already contentious negotiations over who should take over as prime minister of Egypt.
Nour “decided to withdraw immediately from all tracks of negotiations as a first reaction to the Republican Guard massacre,” Nader Bakkar, a spokesman, said on Twitter.
The group’s departure from negotiations was a significant blow to an already fragile political process, whose organizers had sought not to exclude Islamists altogether.
A dispute over the weekend centered on the role that should be played in a new government by Mohamed ElBaradei, a Nobel Peace Prize winner, former diplomat and liberal politician who is supported by many liberal and secular members of the anti-Morsi movement, but whom ultraconservative Islamists deeply distrust.
ElBaradei on Monday denounced the violence outside the Guard headquarters, saying on Twitter: “violence begets violence and should be strongly condemned. Independent Investigation a must. Peaceful transition is only way.”
Videos released by the Muslim Brotherhood showed pro-Morsi protesters carrying wounded, bleeding men in civilian clothes from the Republican Guard headquarters area into what appears to be a makeshift field hospital.
In one video, the camera moved rapidly past fires, people running, and clouds of white smoke that the group said was tear gas, as gunfire crackles in the background.
In another shot, a woman cloaked in the black, all-encompassing style of niqab, a green Muslim Brotherhood headband tied over her face veil, is crying as she walks. “May God take vengeance on them,” she wails.
“#Bloodbath,” a Muslim Brotherhood official, Gehad el-Haddad, said on Twitter.
Hours before the shooting, hundreds of Morsi supporters entered a new standoff with the military outside Egypt’s defense ministry in eastern Cairo. Mohsen Radi, a former member of parliament from the Brotherhood’s Freedom and Justice party who marched to the defense compound with a crowd of about 1,000 people, said the group was expanding its peaceful sit-ins to amplify the “pressure” to reinstate Morsi, Egypt’s first democratically elected president.
Morsi was forced from office last week by Egypt’s all-powerful military, which said it was motivated to act by millions of anti-government demonstrators who had taken to the streets in recent days to demand that Morsi leave.
Since his ouster, however, Morsi supporters have turned out in force, triggering clashes with security forces on Friday.
While the weekend was largely quiet, Monday’s violence ratcheted up the tension considerably, and made the goal of forming some sort of national unity government appear ever more elusive.
Outside the defense ministry, the Morsi supporters formed a human wall, their arms linked, in a face-off about 100 yards from a row of armored personnel carriers and army troops at the ministry’s gate. As one protester unfurled a large banner, featuring Morsi, onto the pavement in front of the Brotherhood supporters, an army officer said over a loudspeaker: “If you move one more meter, you will be shot.”
A third, even larger sit-in was underway outside the Rabaa al-Adawiya mosque in eastern Cairo, which has been the epicenter of pro-Morsi protests in recent days. Demonstrators, including families and children from across the country, have set up a a sprawling encampment there.
William Booth and Sharaf al-Hourani in Cairo contributed to this report.
