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His gran father or maybe his great grandfather is one of the founders of the MB right?
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exactly his grand father was Hassan el-Banna himself. the mom of Tariq went to Switzerland to escape persecution and that explains why he is Swiss.
some people accused him to be pro MB (because of his ancestor) so many times he had to say he is not in MB
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zionist scum
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Why do they even bother,
I never understood what these people pray for, what do they ask for that God gives them strength to oppose his word and fight against the implementation of his will
I never understood what these people pray for, what do they ask for that God gives them strength to oppose his word and fight against the implementation of his will
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Ramadan mubarak to all
Ramadan mubarak to you too from the heighs of south eastern Turkey
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US Terms Morsi Rule ‘Undemocratic’
PM Won’t Rule Out Brotherhood Role
CAIRO, July 11, (Agencies): Egypt’s interim rulers welcomed on Thursday remarks from the US State department describing the rule of toppled leader Mohamed Morsi as undemocratic, clearly hoping they signalled Washington would not cut off its $1.5 billion in annual aid. In a stark illustration of the desperate state of Egypt’s economy, a former minister from Morsi’s ousted government said Egypt has less than two months’ supply left of imported wheat, revealing a far worse shortage than previously disclosed. The army’s removal of Egypt’s first democratically elected leader last week, after millions took to the streets to protest against him, has left the Arab world’s most populous country polarised by divisions unseen in its modern history.
Violence between supporters of Morsi and soldiers at a military compound this week has deepened the fissures. Washington has been treading a careful line. US law bars aid to countries where a democratic government is removed in a coup. So far Washington has said it is too early to say whether the Egyptian events met that description. Nevertheless, State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki said on Wednesday, Morsi’s government “wasn’t a democratic rule”.“What I mean is what we’ve been referencing about the 22 million people who have been out there voicing their views and making clear that democracy is not just about simply winning the vote at the ballot box.”
Egypt’s Foreign Ministry spokesman, Badr Abdelatty, said the comments “reflect understanding and realisation ... about the political developments that Egypt is witnessing in the recent days, as embodying the will of the millions of Egyptians who took to the streets starting on June 30 to ask for their legitimate rights and call for early elections”.
In the days before Morsi’s downfall, the US ambassador in Cairo attracted sharp criticism from Morsi’s opponents for a speech that stressed that Morsi was democratically elected and discouraged street protests against him.
The White House on Monday refused to label the ouster of Egypt’s president a military coup and said there would be no immediate cut-off in US aid to Egypt. US officials have since said they are still reviewing the matter. In the past, the US government has taken more than two months to make up its mind on such questions.
Two and a half years of political turmoil has left Egypt on the brink of economic collapse, scaring away tourists and investors, shrivelling hard currency reserves and threatening its ability to import food and fuel for its 84 million people.
Speaking to Reuters near midnight in a tent at a vigil by thousands of Morsi supporters, the ousted president’s supply minister, Bassem Ouda, revealed that government stocks held just 500,000 tonnes of imported wheat.
Egypt, the world’s biggest buyer, usually imports about 10 million tonnes of wheat a year, half of which is given out by the state in the form of subsidised bread sold for less than one US cent a loaf.
The imported wheat stock figure, previously a closely-guarded secret, means Egypt will need to urgently start spending a $12 billion financial aid lifeline it has been given in the past two days by Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Kuwait, rich Gulf states that welcomed Morsi’s downfall.
Egypt had not bought any imported wheat since February, its longest absence from the market in years, until the eve of Morsi’s downfall when it bought 180,000 tonnes.
The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization said in a report that Egypt risked serious food security problems if insecurity and a shortage of foreign currency hinder imports.
“I think the aim of the Arab countries is to make sure Egypt doesn’t fail with respect to food security and financial commitments with the international banking system, so I would think they will push to get the aid through quickly,” said Kisan Gunjal, economist and food emergency Officer at the FAO.
Adli Mansour, the interim president named by the general who removed Morsi, has moved briskly to implement an army “road map” to restore civilian rule. This week he announced a temporary constitution, plans to amend it and a faster-than-expected schedule for parliamentary elections in about six months.
He also named 76-year-old liberal economist Hazem el-Beblawi as interim prime minister. Beblawi held his first meetings with political leaders on Wednesday and told Reuters that he expects the transitional cabinet to be in place early next week.
Negotiations are difficult, with the authorities trying to attract support from groups that range from secularists to ultra-orthodox Muslims, nearly all of whom expressed deep dissatisfaction with elements of the interim constitution.
Those political moves have been accompanied by a crackdown on the Brotherhood, the Islamist movement which worked in the shadows for 85 years before emerging as Egypt’s best-organised political force when autocrat Hosni Mubarak was toppled in 2011.
Qualified
Egypt’s premier said Thursday he does not rule out posts for the Muslim Brotherhood in his cabinet if candidates are qualified, even as police cracked down on the Islamist group.
Hazem al-Beblawi, who was appointed on Tuesday, told AFP in a telephone interview he was still considering the makeup of his interim government after president Morsi’s overthrow in a popular military coup last week.
“I don’t look at political association ... If someone is named from (the Brotherhood’s) Freedom and Justice Party, if he is qualified for the post” he may be considered, Beblawi said.
“I’m taking two criteria for the next government. Efficiency and credibility,” he added.
“So far I haven’t approached anyone,” Beblawi said, explaining he wanted to decide on the best candidates before asking them to join the government.
Morsi’s Muslim Brotherhood has already rejected an offer from Beblawi to join the new government, and called for a mass rally on Friday against what it called “a bloody military coup”.
An anti-Morsi camp meanwhile is reported to be planning a Cairo rally to mark the Muslim holy fasting month of Ramadan following weekly prayers on Friday.
The rally planned in Cairo’s iconic Tahrir Square, epicentre of the 2011 uprising that toppled veteran leader Hosni Mubarak, raises the possibility of further violence following a week of bloodshed after Morsi’s July 3 ouster.
In the bloodiest incident, clashes around an army building on Monday left 53 people dead, mostly Morsi partisans.
Police were searching for the Brotherhood’s Supreme Guide, Mohamed Badie, after a warrant was issued for his arrest on Wednesday, in connection with the violence.
Badie and other senior Brotherhood leaders are wanted on suspicion of inciting the clashes, judicial sources said.
After a year in power through Morsi, the Brotherhood is now in tatters, with much of its leadership detained, on the run or keeping a low profile following Morsi’s overthrow.
Morsi himself is currently being held in a “safe place, for his safety,” foreign ministry spokesman Badr Abdelatty told reporters Wednesday, adding: “He is not charged with anything up till now,” he said.
Military and judicial sources have said the ousted leader may face charges eventually.
His overthrow by the military last week, after nationwide protests demanding his resignation, has plunged Egypt into a vortex of violence.
In the restive Sinai peninsula, a Coptic Christian man was Thursday found decapitated five days after he was kidnappped by gunmen, security officials and witnesses told AFP.
Analysts had highlighted the danger of extremists exploiting tensions and unrest across Egypt since the military overthrew Morsi.
Thousands of Morsi supporters Wednesday evening joined those camped out at the Rabaa al-Adawiya mosque in Cairo’s Nasr City, to break the daily Ramadan fast.
They vowed to leave only when Morsi, the country’s first freely elected president, is reinstated.
“We are gathering here for Morsi. I voted for him and I want to know where he is,” said protester Mohammed, 47.
“We will stay here either until the president’s return or martyrdom,” he said.
The Brotherhood accuses the army of “massacring” its supporters in Monday’s incident, and the army says soldiers came under attack by “terrorists” and armed protesters.
The public prosecutor pressed charges on Wednesday against 200 of the 650 people it detained during the violence.
Last week Badie gave a fiery speech in which he vowed that Brotherhood activists would throng the streets in their millions until Morsi’s presidency was restored.
Mansour, appointed caretaker president by the military following Morsi’s overthrow, has set a timetable for elections by early next year.
Opponents and supporters of Morsi alike have criticised the interim charter he issued on Monday to replace the Islamist-drafted constitution, which he suspended, and to steer a transition the army has itself acknowledged will be “difficult.”
An official with one of the parties in the National Salvation Front (NSF), the main coalition formerly led by ElBaradei, criticised Mansour’s 33-article declaration for according extensive powers to the interim president.
Many within the coalition are wary of repeating the mistakes of the last military-led transition, between Hosni Mubarak’s ouster in 2011 and Morsi’s election in June 2012.
The Brotherhood’s demise has been applauded by three Gulf states, who quickly stepped in to help prop up Egypt’s faltering economy.
Kuwait on Wednesday pledged $4 billion in cash, loans and fuel, with Saudi Arabia offering a total of $5 billion and the United Arab Emirates $3 billion.
The United States is pressing ahead with plans to deliver four F-16 fighters to Egypt despite a military coup against President Morsi, a US official said Thursday.
“It’s still the status quo,” the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, told AFP.
There was no decision to halt the scheduled transfer of the warplanes or to cut off other security assistance to Egypt, the official said, even though the US government has announced a review of all aid to Cairo.
President Barack Obama’s administration has said it is examining whether the military takeover constitutes a coup, which under US law would force Washington to freeze any aid to Egypt.
The Pentagon said it remains dedicated to maintaining longstanding military ties with Egypt and that the United States wants to see a prompt return to civilian, democratic rule.
“Looking forward, we will work with the Egyptian people to support a quick and responsible return to a sustainable, democratically elected civilian government,” the Pentagon said in a statement.
“Given the events of last week, the president has directed relevant departments and agencies to review our assistance to the government of Egypt.”
The F-16s are part of an arms deal with Egypt approved in 2010 that calls for the supply of 20 of the fighter jets.
Eight of the warplanes were delivered earlier this year and four more are scheduled to be delivered in August, with another eight due later in the year, officials said.
Egypt has received more than 220 F-16 fighters since 1980 and has the world’s fourth largest F-16 fleet, behind the United States, Israel and Turkey.
With Egypt gripped by intense political turmoil, the Obama administration has relied on the US military’s deep ties with the Egyptian armed forces as its main channel for diplomacy and communication.
Since July 2, Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel has had eight phone conversations with Egyptian army chief General Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, including one that lasted 45 minutes, Pentagon spokesman George Little told reporters.
“We believe that it’s appropriate to use this important channel we have with the Egyptians to convey our insights, thoughts and our views on the situation that’s occurring in Egypt,” Little said Wednesday.
The United States provides $1.5 billion of mostly military aid to Egypt every year.
PM Won’t Rule Out Brotherhood Role
CAIRO, July 11, (Agencies): Egypt’s interim rulers welcomed on Thursday remarks from the US State department describing the rule of toppled leader Mohamed Morsi as undemocratic, clearly hoping they signalled Washington would not cut off its $1.5 billion in annual aid. In a stark illustration of the desperate state of Egypt’s economy, a former minister from Morsi’s ousted government said Egypt has less than two months’ supply left of imported wheat, revealing a far worse shortage than previously disclosed. The army’s removal of Egypt’s first democratically elected leader last week, after millions took to the streets to protest against him, has left the Arab world’s most populous country polarised by divisions unseen in its modern history.
Violence between supporters of Morsi and soldiers at a military compound this week has deepened the fissures. Washington has been treading a careful line. US law bars aid to countries where a democratic government is removed in a coup. So far Washington has said it is too early to say whether the Egyptian events met that description. Nevertheless, State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki said on Wednesday, Morsi’s government “wasn’t a democratic rule”.“What I mean is what we’ve been referencing about the 22 million people who have been out there voicing their views and making clear that democracy is not just about simply winning the vote at the ballot box.”
Egypt’s Foreign Ministry spokesman, Badr Abdelatty, said the comments “reflect understanding and realisation ... about the political developments that Egypt is witnessing in the recent days, as embodying the will of the millions of Egyptians who took to the streets starting on June 30 to ask for their legitimate rights and call for early elections”.
In the days before Morsi’s downfall, the US ambassador in Cairo attracted sharp criticism from Morsi’s opponents for a speech that stressed that Morsi was democratically elected and discouraged street protests against him.
The White House on Monday refused to label the ouster of Egypt’s president a military coup and said there would be no immediate cut-off in US aid to Egypt. US officials have since said they are still reviewing the matter. In the past, the US government has taken more than two months to make up its mind on such questions.
Two and a half years of political turmoil has left Egypt on the brink of economic collapse, scaring away tourists and investors, shrivelling hard currency reserves and threatening its ability to import food and fuel for its 84 million people.
Speaking to Reuters near midnight in a tent at a vigil by thousands of Morsi supporters, the ousted president’s supply minister, Bassem Ouda, revealed that government stocks held just 500,000 tonnes of imported wheat.
Egypt, the world’s biggest buyer, usually imports about 10 million tonnes of wheat a year, half of which is given out by the state in the form of subsidised bread sold for less than one US cent a loaf.
The imported wheat stock figure, previously a closely-guarded secret, means Egypt will need to urgently start spending a $12 billion financial aid lifeline it has been given in the past two days by Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Kuwait, rich Gulf states that welcomed Morsi’s downfall.
Egypt had not bought any imported wheat since February, its longest absence from the market in years, until the eve of Morsi’s downfall when it bought 180,000 tonnes.
The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization said in a report that Egypt risked serious food security problems if insecurity and a shortage of foreign currency hinder imports.
“I think the aim of the Arab countries is to make sure Egypt doesn’t fail with respect to food security and financial commitments with the international banking system, so I would think they will push to get the aid through quickly,” said Kisan Gunjal, economist and food emergency Officer at the FAO.
Adli Mansour, the interim president named by the general who removed Morsi, has moved briskly to implement an army “road map” to restore civilian rule. This week he announced a temporary constitution, plans to amend it and a faster-than-expected schedule for parliamentary elections in about six months.
He also named 76-year-old liberal economist Hazem el-Beblawi as interim prime minister. Beblawi held his first meetings with political leaders on Wednesday and told Reuters that he expects the transitional cabinet to be in place early next week.
Negotiations are difficult, with the authorities trying to attract support from groups that range from secularists to ultra-orthodox Muslims, nearly all of whom expressed deep dissatisfaction with elements of the interim constitution.
Those political moves have been accompanied by a crackdown on the Brotherhood, the Islamist movement which worked in the shadows for 85 years before emerging as Egypt’s best-organised political force when autocrat Hosni Mubarak was toppled in 2011.
Qualified
Egypt’s premier said Thursday he does not rule out posts for the Muslim Brotherhood in his cabinet if candidates are qualified, even as police cracked down on the Islamist group.
Hazem al-Beblawi, who was appointed on Tuesday, told AFP in a telephone interview he was still considering the makeup of his interim government after president Morsi’s overthrow in a popular military coup last week.
“I don’t look at political association ... If someone is named from (the Brotherhood’s) Freedom and Justice Party, if he is qualified for the post” he may be considered, Beblawi said.
“I’m taking two criteria for the next government. Efficiency and credibility,” he added.
“So far I haven’t approached anyone,” Beblawi said, explaining he wanted to decide on the best candidates before asking them to join the government.
Morsi’s Muslim Brotherhood has already rejected an offer from Beblawi to join the new government, and called for a mass rally on Friday against what it called “a bloody military coup”.
An anti-Morsi camp meanwhile is reported to be planning a Cairo rally to mark the Muslim holy fasting month of Ramadan following weekly prayers on Friday.
The rally planned in Cairo’s iconic Tahrir Square, epicentre of the 2011 uprising that toppled veteran leader Hosni Mubarak, raises the possibility of further violence following a week of bloodshed after Morsi’s July 3 ouster.
In the bloodiest incident, clashes around an army building on Monday left 53 people dead, mostly Morsi partisans.
Police were searching for the Brotherhood’s Supreme Guide, Mohamed Badie, after a warrant was issued for his arrest on Wednesday, in connection with the violence.
Badie and other senior Brotherhood leaders are wanted on suspicion of inciting the clashes, judicial sources said.
After a year in power through Morsi, the Brotherhood is now in tatters, with much of its leadership detained, on the run or keeping a low profile following Morsi’s overthrow.
Morsi himself is currently being held in a “safe place, for his safety,” foreign ministry spokesman Badr Abdelatty told reporters Wednesday, adding: “He is not charged with anything up till now,” he said.
Military and judicial sources have said the ousted leader may face charges eventually.
His overthrow by the military last week, after nationwide protests demanding his resignation, has plunged Egypt into a vortex of violence.
In the restive Sinai peninsula, a Coptic Christian man was Thursday found decapitated five days after he was kidnappped by gunmen, security officials and witnesses told AFP.
Analysts had highlighted the danger of extremists exploiting tensions and unrest across Egypt since the military overthrew Morsi.
Thousands of Morsi supporters Wednesday evening joined those camped out at the Rabaa al-Adawiya mosque in Cairo’s Nasr City, to break the daily Ramadan fast.
They vowed to leave only when Morsi, the country’s first freely elected president, is reinstated.
“We are gathering here for Morsi. I voted for him and I want to know where he is,” said protester Mohammed, 47.
“We will stay here either until the president’s return or martyrdom,” he said.
The Brotherhood accuses the army of “massacring” its supporters in Monday’s incident, and the army says soldiers came under attack by “terrorists” and armed protesters.
The public prosecutor pressed charges on Wednesday against 200 of the 650 people it detained during the violence.
Last week Badie gave a fiery speech in which he vowed that Brotherhood activists would throng the streets in their millions until Morsi’s presidency was restored.
Mansour, appointed caretaker president by the military following Morsi’s overthrow, has set a timetable for elections by early next year.
Opponents and supporters of Morsi alike have criticised the interim charter he issued on Monday to replace the Islamist-drafted constitution, which he suspended, and to steer a transition the army has itself acknowledged will be “difficult.”
An official with one of the parties in the National Salvation Front (NSF), the main coalition formerly led by ElBaradei, criticised Mansour’s 33-article declaration for according extensive powers to the interim president.
Many within the coalition are wary of repeating the mistakes of the last military-led transition, between Hosni Mubarak’s ouster in 2011 and Morsi’s election in June 2012.
The Brotherhood’s demise has been applauded by three Gulf states, who quickly stepped in to help prop up Egypt’s faltering economy.
Kuwait on Wednesday pledged $4 billion in cash, loans and fuel, with Saudi Arabia offering a total of $5 billion and the United Arab Emirates $3 billion.
The United States is pressing ahead with plans to deliver four F-16 fighters to Egypt despite a military coup against President Morsi, a US official said Thursday.
“It’s still the status quo,” the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, told AFP.
There was no decision to halt the scheduled transfer of the warplanes or to cut off other security assistance to Egypt, the official said, even though the US government has announced a review of all aid to Cairo.
President Barack Obama’s administration has said it is examining whether the military takeover constitutes a coup, which under US law would force Washington to freeze any aid to Egypt.
The Pentagon said it remains dedicated to maintaining longstanding military ties with Egypt and that the United States wants to see a prompt return to civilian, democratic rule.
“Looking forward, we will work with the Egyptian people to support a quick and responsible return to a sustainable, democratically elected civilian government,” the Pentagon said in a statement.
“Given the events of last week, the president has directed relevant departments and agencies to review our assistance to the government of Egypt.”
The F-16s are part of an arms deal with Egypt approved in 2010 that calls for the supply of 20 of the fighter jets.
Eight of the warplanes were delivered earlier this year and four more are scheduled to be delivered in August, with another eight due later in the year, officials said.
Egypt has received more than 220 F-16 fighters since 1980 and has the world’s fourth largest F-16 fleet, behind the United States, Israel and Turkey.
With Egypt gripped by intense political turmoil, the Obama administration has relied on the US military’s deep ties with the Egyptian armed forces as its main channel for diplomacy and communication.
Since July 2, Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel has had eight phone conversations with Egyptian army chief General Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, including one that lasted 45 minutes, Pentagon spokesman George Little told reporters.
“We believe that it’s appropriate to use this important channel we have with the Egyptians to convey our insights, thoughts and our views on the situation that’s occurring in Egypt,” Little said Wednesday.
The United States provides $1.5 billion of mostly military aid to Egypt every year.
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Evening meal(ftaar) of firts day of fasting month, Holy Ramadan
Egypt Army:
Those who are fed from outside of country..
MB supporters At Rabaa Al-Adawiya Square
Those who are feeding from Egypt.. water and dates..
No more comment needed for now....just wait to see Egypt of 4-5 years later..
Egypt Army:
Those who are fed from outside of country..
MB supporters At Rabaa Al-Adawiya Square
Those who are feeding from Egypt.. water and dates..
No more comment needed for now....just wait to see Egypt of 4-5 years later..
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Evening meal(ftaar) of firts day of fasting month, Holy Ramadan
Egypt Army:
Those who are fed from outside of country..
MB supporters At Rabaa Al-Adawiya Square
Those who are feeding from Egypt.. water and dates..
No more comment needed for now....just wait to see Egypt of 4-5 years later..
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zionist scum
No no. He is really good. Killed some handful of muslims
if the jews would hav done it, everybody would hav been in uproar.. but jews made him do it so all is well
Evening meal(ftaar) of firts day of fasting month, Holy Ramadan
Egypt Army:
Those who are fed from outside of country..
MB supporters At Rabaa Al-Adawiya Square
Those who are feeding from Egypt.. water and dates..
No more comment needed for now....just wait to see Egypt of 4-5 years later..
You have drawn attention to gist of outside interference in Egypt today reflecting in Ramadan Iftar. Question is -is it Saudi or Emirati money or US aid in disguise feeding soldiers these fancy meals. But offcourse it is Egyptian people who are just eating dates will be paying off foreign debt.
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Yes but have you seen this.......
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