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06 Apr 2013

Egyptian Embassy in De-Nile-Al

Jon Stewart’s support of Bassem Youssef after the Egyptian comedian got locked up for making fun of the president of Egypt was passionate and expected.  What was unexpected, however, was a Twitter fallout between the U.S. Embassy in Cairo and Egyptian officials. The U.S. Embassy made the mistake of tweeting a link to The Daily Show‘s video, which angered Egyptian officials and Islamists. The embassy tried to correct the mistake by taking down its entire Twitter page. Tsk, tsk.

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31 Mar 2013

Attack of the Fresh Produce

Ben Crystal from Personal Liberty Digest wonders if President Obama’s signing of the Monsanto Protection Act will spur a fresh produce counter-attack. In this edition of The Great Eight, Crystal also weighs in on Ashley Judd’s decision not to run for Senate in Kentucky and on Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi’s latest belligerent warnings.

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03 Feb 2013
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Egypt’s Reign of Political Rapes

A wave of sexual assaults in Cairo has led critics of the Morsi regime to charge that Egyptian Islamists are using rape as a tool to silence political dissent. Many of the victims of the attacks have been women protesting for equal rights. Criticism of the regime has intensified since reports emerged of 25 rapes taking place in Tahrir Square.

Meanwhile, Russia Today captured some disturbing video footage of Cairo police stripping a protester and dragging him through the streets to an awaiting van. Two weeks in, the protests do not appear to be abating but growing more frequent and violent.

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25 Jan 2013

More Seething from Morsi

Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi seems hellbent to prove he’s a bigger anti-Semite than Iran’s Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. After previously calling Jews the descendants of “apes and pigs,” Morsi now has told a delegation of visiting US senators that he’d enjoy a better rep in America if it wasn’t for the “controlled” media that’s biased against him.

Wrong, Lipschitz. No one has to misinterpret your words to make you look bad. Every time you open your mouth, you demonstrate beyond a shadow of a doubt that every bone in your body is bigoted and bent. Spare us a few billion shekels, Obama, and cast this clown adrift. If he counts as an American ally, who needs enemies?

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21 Jan 2013

Egypt Silencing Free Speech

The Egyptian regime of Mohammed Morsi has stepped up attacks on journalists, charging them with insulting his leadership. In fact, a new human rights report shows that Morsi has brought four times more legal cases against journalists and media figures than the regime of the deposed Hosni Mubarak. So much for the myth of the Arab Spring translating into a burst of freedom.

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10 Jan 2013

Egypt Wants Pardon for Sheik

Egypt’s new President Mohammed Morsi has now made official what has been rumored for many months: He will ask President Obama to pardon the blind Egyptian Sheik Omar Abdel-Rahman, who is serving a life sentence in the United States for the 1993 World Trade Center attack.

Morsi can ask, but Obama would be wise to deny the request. The 1993 bombings orchestrated by The Blind Sheik and his nine co-conspirators served as the warmup act for the most heinous terrorist assault ever mounted on American soil. If Obama grants this pardon, he might as well erect a billboard at Ellis Island inviting every last murdering low-life around the world free access to prey on Americans.

It also would be insincerity of the highest order if Obama denies the pardon, but agrees to transfer The Blind Sheik into Egyptian custody on “humanitarian grounds.” The Al-Gama’a al-Islamiyya terrorist might be old, 74, and blind, but neither negates the severity of his sedition.

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04 Jan 2013

Morsi: Egypt’s New Pharoah

Bassem Youssef, an Egyptian TV satirist in the vein of Jon Stewart, is being prosecuted under a new law that forbids anyone from insulting Egypt’s leaders. Looks like Egypt’s new President Mohammed Morsi might be even more thin-skinned and dictatorial than the deposed Hosni Mubarak.  Progress!

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28 Dec 2012
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Egyptian Constitution Belly Flop

The new Egyptian constitution imposing Sharia law continues to arouse the ire of democratic-minded reformers. After leading an Egyptian blogger and two Femen cohorts to strip outside the Egyptian embassy in Sweden (see post titled “Nude Protest Greets Egyptians”), the constitution has now inspired a belly dancer to pen a satirical ditty bemoaning the lack of women’s rights under the new Morsi government. H/T MEMRI TV

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04 Dec 2012

Egyptian Coup Spurs Debate

In a first of its kind move, the head of the European parliament has asked the European Union to stop supporting Egypt following Egyptian president Mohammed Morsi’s decree to expand his power above the courts. Martin Schultz said the EU should not condone what he called a coup.

Just last week, Morsi awarded himself sweeping powers, and the Islamist-dominated constitutional assembly rushed through a draft charter based on Sharia law that critics say could leave women and ethnic minorities vulnerable. Protests have continued to rage over Morsi’s decision and despite international debate over the new draft constitution, the Obama administration has so far declined to criticize it.

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28 Nov 2012
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Egyptian Opposition Unites

Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi’s move last week to greatly expand his powers has galvanized opponents of his ruling party, the Muslim Brotherhood. Now, the opposition parties are burying the hatchet, coming together and mobilizing mass street protests, seeking to preserve Egypt’s fragile democracy. H/T Wall Street Journal

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