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Originally Posted by baddog Here is the problem . . . . the country is pretty evenly split between pro and anti-Morsi (kind of like Obama here). The 50% that are against Morsi don't think Democracy is working because the person they wanted to get elected, wasn't.

Probably read that in the media ...

The people tired of military rule that started when the Wafd ended with The Free Officers coup de ta. Most famous Presidents Nasser and Mubarak were little better than dictators installed by "fair elections" like they had in the old USSR. Like the USSR there were land reforms with a socialist label applied. The poor Egyptians still make mud brick on the banks of the Nile to build their crude dwellings in rural villages as they did in antiquity and much of the Muslim Brotherhood's majority support comes from that Rural environment -- their majorities do not come from more urbane and sophisticated Egypt.

Then comes the "Arab Spring" revolts and the military seizure of power from Mubarak, his resulting trial and imprisonment, and contentious election of Morsi (Mursi) the Presidential candidate of the Muslim Brotherhood. The same Muslim Brotherhood that helped Nasser come to power and whom he tossed out and made his political enemy after Nasser established the UAR with Syria. During Mubarak's reign the same Muslim Brotherhood attacked Egyptian government assets and tourists causing extreme damage to the Egyptian economy, much of Egypt's foreign earnings were from tourism. It was in act of sabotage to the economy -- with enough economic suffering the Muslim Brotherhood could seize political power -- which they did accomplish. However, the Muslim Brotherhood only knows religious hate with terrorism and how to destroy; e.g., their close alliance with Hamas and maybe, unproven their ties to other Islamic Fundamentalists. However, the Muslim Brotherhood has persecuted the few Shi'ite Muslims in Egypt as well as the Coptic Christians -- so they are not about sectarian tolerance at all and that was one promise that they made to gain power that failure being one of the main reasons that the Military took control to preserve the secular nature of the Egyptian government -- one of the foundations of the Wafd's overthrow in the 1950's by the The Free Officers.

This is why in Syria Assad and his father continuously to this day have fought and Massacred over 10K Muslim Brotherhood "insurgents (enemies of the ruling Ba'th)" and civillians in Hama, Syria. The Muslim Brotherhood are sworn enemies of the Shi'ite and Ba'athist party member.

In Egypt many of those that supported Morsi and his Muslim Brotherhood found that after he took power that his promises were just a ploy to get elected and install a new constitution, by force without any meaningful parliamentary debate, and rejected his plans with civil resistance by peaceful protest -- then the Military ousted the "elected" leader to avoid what they saw as becoming a civil war.

Bottom line the pro-Morsi and Muslim Brotherhood supporters are a vocal and violent minority now -- armed and in open revolt.

The USA, Canadian and European governments are totally hypocritical and playing to the masses with their condemnations of the current military installed interim government in Egypt. If armed demonstrators shot and/or killed 43 policemen in their countries they would act very similarly -- meet deadly force with deadly force.