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This is a post I put on my tumblr blog because people have been complaining and asking about the little news that was there. I decided to share it here to try and shed some light about what happened and how things got to this point.
"You can choose whatever name you like for the two types of government. I personally call the type of government which can be removed without violence "democracy", and the other "tyranny"." - Sir Karl Raimund Popper (28 July 1902 – 17 September 1994) As quoted in Freedom: A New Analysis (1954) by Maurice William Cranston, p. 112
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So, I decided to put this post together for two reasons. First, there's very little going on about what's going on in Egypt -my beloved country- right now on Tumblr. Second, the little that reaches you guys is tainted by Muslim Brotherhood reports, and the general image that the Western Media is putting forward is misleading. Third, I'm Egyptian, I've been very involved (as part of the opposition) and I like to believe that I have credibility enough for you to just stop, and read this.
In a nutshell, Egyptians took too the streets from Wednesday 26th of June on. They demanded that the Muslim Brotherhood's elected president, Mohamed Morsi, step down and have an early presidential election.
The reason behind this is that , simply put, everything we asked for during the first round of revolution back in 25th of January (Bread, freedom, social justice) was not achieved. They were not even close. Prices tripled (literally), only members and supporters of the Muslim Brotherhood were allowed positions of power, they were already taking steps to try to control and censor all kinds of opposition media, journalism, as well as art, human rights movements, NGOs...etc.
Bottom line, they have done exactly what Mubarak had been doing and the opposite of what most of the people (those of us who did not support the radical bullshit of the Muslim Brotherhood and other radical Muslim movements)
Conflict had been on the rise between the people and the government since last November, back when protesters took to the streets after Morsi's blatant power grab.
His grab for power was a response to the Supreme Constitutional Court almost dissembling the controversial Constitutional Assembly after nearly half of it’s members quit.
Their decision to quit was a result of the MB assembly members barring any objections to the constitution they were forcing through.
So to stop the assembly from getting dissembled yet again due to the MB non-cooperative actions, he gave himself said sweeping powers. He literally forced what's left of the assembly, coupled with 'extra' members -who also belonged to the MB and other radical muslim movements- to finish the constitution overnight.
Fast forward a few months later. On April 28th 2013, a movement called Tamarod (Rebel) was founded.
Their goal was to gather 15 million signatures for a petition against Morsi aiming to oust him and have a new presidential election before the 30th of June 2013, which was the day Morsi completed the first year of his presidency.
The movement gained momentum at an astonishing speed, gathering over 22,000,000 signatures instead of the original 15,000,000 goal. That, however, was completely disregarded by the Muslim Brotherhood, the government, and their supporters.
They went as far as try to deny any 'allegations' of Tamarod gathering so many signatures, defaming them, accusing them of being funded by western governments...etc.
A week before June 30th, after realizing that the government was simply not paying heed and that people seem to be taking this very seriously, the Army stepped up. They informed the government that they had one week to unite all political factions, supporters and opposition, in order to reach common grounds, as they believed Egypt was heading in a very dangerous direction; or else, they would step in and ensure that people's demands are met.
Again, this was met with complete disregard by the government, who ignored the armed forces and the calls for mass demonstrations on June 30th. On Wednesday the 26th, Morsi gave a 2.5 hour speech -if one could even call it that - where he gossiped, made fun of circulating rumors (some of them were very much founded in reality) and accused people of corruption, mentioning them by name, in one of the most embarrassing rants I've ever witnessed.
Then 30th of June came and this happened.
33 million people took to the streets all over Egypt to protest against Morsi and Muslim Brotherhood's rule. The Sheer scale of this protest was ignored and in response the Muslim Brotherhood gathered their supporters and had a demonstration that was packed with somewhere around 300,000 to 500,000 people in a square called "Rab'a Al Adaweya" that is near "Al Etehadeya" Palace.
The Tamarod movement founders gave the president an ultimatum, if he didn't step down in 48-hours, by 5 pm on 2nd of July 2013, he'd face mass civil disobedience.
You guessed right, Tamarod's ultimatum was ignored by the government. The next day General El- Sisi, came out on t.v. and gave the famous 48 hours Ultimatum.
Morsi responded by defying the Army. His speech had a very clear underlying message basically saying that regardless of what the people and the army want, stepping down would only happen, "Over my dead body". He suggested that his absence from power would cause violence. It was very reminiscent of a similar speech by Mubarak in which he said it would either be him or chaos.
So today, people went to the protests like they have been doing for the past week and waited to see the Army's response to Morsi's defiance, which ended as expected. The Army removed Morsi, handed the government over to the Supreme Constitutional Court and named the head of the court the acting president. They assigned him and leaders of several factions to form a technocratic temporary government that would lead Egypt through the transitional period, additionally suspending the Muslim Brotherhood-made constitution.
Now, I have to take a moment and say this: Morsi reported what happened, which was then reported by Western Media, as a military coup. That is not entirely accurate. The Military merely acted on the will of the people and did not seize power. They handed the government over to those whom the people wanted in power and went back to securing the country.
If by coup, you mean that, then fine, call it whatever you want. But this was not unconstitutional, this isn't against people's will, this isn't the army seizing power. This is what the majority of our people wanted. (Those who did not support the Muslim Brotherhood anyway)
PS- This post is relatively short considering the subject matter. I've skipped over many details, and I'm sure whoever would read this would still have many questions. You can research, you can ask me and I'll try to answer to the best of my ability, but if you want to know more, you'll need to research beyond what CNN/BBC/whatever Western Media outlets are reporting.
Fully understanding why Egyptians needed to end the Brotherhood's theocratic rule would require a series of posts. I might consider this once I'm done researching their entire history.
Hope that helped
"You can choose whatever name you like for the two types of government. I personally call the type of government which can be removed without violence "democracy", and the other "tyranny"." - Sir Karl Raimund Popper (28 July 1902 – 17 September 1994) As quoted in Freedom: A New Analysis (1954) by Maurice William Cranston, p. 112
``
So, I decided to put this post together for two reasons. First, there's very little going on about what's going on in Egypt -my beloved country- right now on Tumblr. Second, the little that reaches you guys is tainted by Muslim Brotherhood reports, and the general image that the Western Media is putting forward is misleading. Third, I'm Egyptian, I've been very involved (as part of the opposition) and I like to believe that I have credibility enough for you to just stop, and read this.
In a nutshell, Egyptians took too the streets from Wednesday 26th of June on. They demanded that the Muslim Brotherhood's elected president, Mohamed Morsi, step down and have an early presidential election.
The reason behind this is that , simply put, everything we asked for during the first round of revolution back in 25th of January (Bread, freedom, social justice) was not achieved. They were not even close. Prices tripled (literally), only members and supporters of the Muslim Brotherhood were allowed positions of power, they were already taking steps to try to control and censor all kinds of opposition media, journalism, as well as art, human rights movements, NGOs...etc.
Bottom line, they have done exactly what Mubarak had been doing and the opposite of what most of the people (those of us who did not support the radical bullshit of the Muslim Brotherhood and other radical Muslim movements)
Conflict had been on the rise between the people and the government since last November, back when protesters took to the streets after Morsi's blatant power grab.
His grab for power was a response to the Supreme Constitutional Court almost dissembling the controversial Constitutional Assembly after nearly half of it’s members quit.
Their decision to quit was a result of the MB assembly members barring any objections to the constitution they were forcing through.
So to stop the assembly from getting dissembled yet again due to the MB non-cooperative actions, he gave himself said sweeping powers. He literally forced what's left of the assembly, coupled with 'extra' members -who also belonged to the MB and other radical muslim movements- to finish the constitution overnight.
Fast forward a few months later. On April 28th 2013, a movement called Tamarod (Rebel) was founded.
Their goal was to gather 15 million signatures for a petition against Morsi aiming to oust him and have a new presidential election before the 30th of June 2013, which was the day Morsi completed the first year of his presidency.
The movement gained momentum at an astonishing speed, gathering over 22,000,000 signatures instead of the original 15,000,000 goal. That, however, was completely disregarded by the Muslim Brotherhood, the government, and their supporters.
They went as far as try to deny any 'allegations' of Tamarod gathering so many signatures, defaming them, accusing them of being funded by western governments...etc.
A week before June 30th, after realizing that the government was simply not paying heed and that people seem to be taking this very seriously, the Army stepped up. They informed the government that they had one week to unite all political factions, supporters and opposition, in order to reach common grounds, as they believed Egypt was heading in a very dangerous direction; or else, they would step in and ensure that people's demands are met.
Again, this was met with complete disregard by the government, who ignored the armed forces and the calls for mass demonstrations on June 30th. On Wednesday the 26th, Morsi gave a 2.5 hour speech -if one could even call it that - where he gossiped, made fun of circulating rumors (some of them were very much founded in reality) and accused people of corruption, mentioning them by name, in one of the most embarrassing rants I've ever witnessed.
Then 30th of June came and this happened.
33 million people took to the streets all over Egypt to protest against Morsi and Muslim Brotherhood's rule. The Sheer scale of this protest was ignored and in response the Muslim Brotherhood gathered their supporters and had a demonstration that was packed with somewhere around 300,000 to 500,000 people in a square called "Rab'a Al Adaweya" that is near "Al Etehadeya" Palace.
The Tamarod movement founders gave the president an ultimatum, if he didn't step down in 48-hours, by 5 pm on 2nd of July 2013, he'd face mass civil disobedience.
You guessed right, Tamarod's ultimatum was ignored by the government. The next day General El- Sisi, came out on t.v. and gave the famous 48 hours Ultimatum.
Morsi responded by defying the Army. His speech had a very clear underlying message basically saying that regardless of what the people and the army want, stepping down would only happen, "Over my dead body". He suggested that his absence from power would cause violence. It was very reminiscent of a similar speech by Mubarak in which he said it would either be him or chaos.
So today, people went to the protests like they have been doing for the past week and waited to see the Army's response to Morsi's defiance, which ended as expected. The Army removed Morsi, handed the government over to the Supreme Constitutional Court and named the head of the court the acting president. They assigned him and leaders of several factions to form a technocratic temporary government that would lead Egypt through the transitional period, additionally suspending the Muslim Brotherhood-made constitution.
Now, I have to take a moment and say this: Morsi reported what happened, which was then reported by Western Media, as a military coup. That is not entirely accurate. The Military merely acted on the will of the people and did not seize power. They handed the government over to those whom the people wanted in power and went back to securing the country.
If by coup, you mean that, then fine, call it whatever you want. But this was not unconstitutional, this isn't against people's will, this isn't the army seizing power. This is what the majority of our people wanted. (Those who did not support the Muslim Brotherhood anyway)
PS- This post is relatively short considering the subject matter. I've skipped over many details, and I'm sure whoever would read this would still have many questions. You can research, you can ask me and I'll try to answer to the best of my ability, but if you want to know more, you'll need to research beyond what CNN/BBC/whatever Western Media outlets are reporting.
Fully understanding why Egyptians needed to end the Brotherhood's theocratic rule would require a series of posts. I might consider this once I'm done researching their entire history.
Hope that helped
