Three-strikes policy: Egypt military fires AGAIN on unarmed civilians and now reporters.

I am not saying that there are no transgressions by the military, but this Mohamed Soltan guy is from a very fanatical background and might have faked an arson attack against him before. His father issued a fatwa to demand the killing of the Israeli ambassador. Clearly, this guy has an interest in propaganda for the Islamist cause. http://www.barenakedislam.com/2012/...s-them-asking-what-did-we-do-to-deserve-this/

 

It is interesting to see your outrage now, as opposed to when Islamists do it.

 

I follow Saeid Kamal on FB (he's a Gazan journalist that covers Syria and Egypt). He just posted a lot of photos that are extremely graphic. You can follow him on FB if you want updates. He mostly writes in Arabic, but he's saying that mobs are attacking the police and burning cop cars, etc, and the police are fighting back. The mobs have also reportedly killed some journalists as well as killed students in an Engineering college. He also says the fighting is not just in Cairo, but in Alexandria as well.

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The Islamists (or I should say, the rioters, whomever they are) are killing plenty as we speak...not just cops but students and journalists, at least according to Saeid Kamal. As an aside, I'd say this is where social media like twitter and facebook shines...it's basically a raw news feed directly from journalists on the ground before an editor bakes it into a story to appease whatever bosses want for ratings.

 

kinda like you focusing on American aid and its role in this atrocity?

hypocrisy is fun!

 

Now it's being reported that Morsi supporters are taking out their anger on the Copts and are burning churches & the Salafists are calling on them to stop.

I wouldn't a plan a trip to visit the pyramids any time soon.

 

Patiently waiting for Northside Storm to start a thread on this and feign outrage.

It's so transparent how desperately he tries to paint the Islamist mobsters as victims and victims only, and to blame the USA for everything. He is the Canadian Mathloom. These two guys are something else.

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-23683035

And since you cite a known Islamist and son of an Islamist hate preacher who incites murder as your main source, I guess a respected Christian broadcasting network should also do as source:

http://www.cbn.com/cbnnews/world/2013/August/Egypt-Christian-Islamists-Threatening-Slaughter/

It's telling that you obviously WANT to question this, as if it was in any way in doubt. It shows that this doesn't suit you and your propagandistic efforts.

 

Mostly twitter chatter, occasionally with links to arab press. Most of the chatter is from upset Muslims denouncing the violence on Copts.

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Reports: Mursi supporters torch three churches in Egypt
Wednesday, 14 August 2013
Riot police officers run during clashes with members of the Muslim Brotherhood and supporters of deposed Egyptian President Mohamed Mursi. (Reuters)

AFP, Cairo

Supporters of deposed Islamist president Mohamed Mursi torched three churches in central Egypt on Wednesday in reprisal attacks as police dispersed demonstrations in Cairo, reports said.

The assailants threw firebombs at Mar Gergiss church in Sohag, a city with a large community of Coptic Christians who comprise up to 10 percent of Egypt’s 84 million people, causing it to burn down, the official MENA news agency said.

Security officials told AFP that another two churches were attacked in el-Menia province, leaving them partially damaged by fire.

Coptic rights group the Maspero Youth Union reported the same information, accusing Mursi’s Muslim Brotherhood movement of “waging a war of retaliation” against the country’s Christians.

Dozens of Mursi supporters were killed on Wednesday as security forces moved in to disperse them from two major protest camps in Cairo that they have occupied since around the time the army ousted him six weeks ago.

The Coptic church backed Mursi’s removal, with Patriarch Tawadros II appearing alongside army chief General Abdel Fattah al-Sisi as he announced the military coup on July 3.

 

Journalists seem to be getting harassed by both sides. Just saw this, but it's two days old.

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Two journalists held and beaten by pro-Morsi demonstrators
Published on Monday 12 August 2013.

Reporters Without Borders is appalled to learn that two journalists, Mohamed Momtaz and Aya Hassan, were held for several hours and beaten by supporters of deposed President Mohamed Morsi while covering a march organized by the Muslim Brotherhood in Cairo on 9 August.

The Union of Journalists told Reporters Without Borders that Momtaz, who works for the newspaper Veto, was accompanying the march towards Al-Nahda Square when several demonstrators grabbed his camera and began to hit him. Then they took him in a car to one of the tents erected by the demonstrators in the square, hit him again, forced him to undress inside the tent, interrogated him and accused him of spying. He had to be taken to a hospital when released three hours later.

Hassan, who works for Youm 7, was photographing Momtaz being attacked when the demonstrators turned on her, seized her camera, and roughed her up. After surrounding her to prevent her from leaving the march, they escorted her to a tent in Al-Nahda Square, where she was interrogated, searched and repeatedly hit while blindfolded.

During interrogation, she was ordered to admit political affiliation and to provide the names of people she knew in the interior ministry, the armed forces and in the opposition to Morsi. Her repeated insistence that she was “just a journalist” did not prevent the mistreatment.

In a video account posted on YouTube and transcribed by Youm 7, Hassan has described the mistreatment she received for more than four hours. “One of the men dragged me by my hair along the ground into an adjacent tent,” she said. “He kicked me in the face until my nose began to bleed. He then gave me a piece of cloth covered in blood, and warned me that I was going to suffer the same fate as the person who had been punished in this place before me.” The Union of Journalists said he was apparently referring to Momtaz.

“What happened to these two journalists on 9 August is intolerable,” Reporters Without Borders said. “The Egyptian authorities must deploy whatever resources are necessary to ensure that these abuses do not go unpunished. They must ensure that media personnel are protected.”

Although especially violent, these two attacks are unfortunately not isolated. Morsi supporters have repeatedly prevented Egyptian journalists from covering their demonstrations and have deliberately targeted them if they work for media that are not ideologically sympathetic to the Muslim Brotherhood.

On 8 August, for example, Muslim Brotherhood supporters interrupted Sky News correspondent Rufayda Yassin while she was covering a demonstration live.

Mohamed Tarek, a photographer with the newspaper Al-Masry Al-Youm, was surrounded by pro-Morsi demonstrators during a sit-in in Cairo’s Raba’a Al-Adawiya Square a few days before that. They grabbed his camera, deleted the content of its memory card, and returned his camera only after expelling him from the sit-in.

The Egyptian authorities have meanwhile been taking harsh measures against news media that support the Muslim Brotherhood. Reporters Without Borders has registered 52 cases of journalists being arrested since Morsi’s removal as president on 3 July.

 

Yeah, I can see how you would love to ignore this part:

 

Where was your outrage when Morsi appointed a known murderer and terrorist as governor?