Muslim Brotherhood Vows to Bring Down Egyptian Regime, Egypt Considers Disbanding MB & More Egypt Updates

Muslim Brotherhood Vows to Bring Down Egyptian Regime
 
The bloodshed is about to get much worse. The Muslim Brotherhood is vowing to “peacefully” bring down the regime with larger protests.
 
The Clarion Project - Over 600 Egyptians are dead after the authorities moved to dismantle two pro-Morsi encampments, sparking international condemnation and the cancellation by the U.S. of planned joint military exercises. The excessive force is deplorable and plays into the Islamists’ hands, but the Muslim Brotherhood are not the modern-day Mahatma Gandhis that the media is making them look like.

The Clarion Project was sent a stream of videos, photos and eyewitness accounts from Egyptian newspapers and social media sites that tell a different side of the story.

Bloodshed of non-combatants is always saddening, but it must be understood that this crackdown was foreseen by everyone — including the martyrdom-seeking Islamists that were there and refused to leave as ordered. The large gatherings had led to bloody clashes, the blocking of travel routes, major economic problems and were, in the words of Raymond Ibrahim, “mini-emirates” where human rights abuses took place.   Read More

EU to review relationship with Egypt, U.S. officials want aid cut

Al Arabiya - The European Union will review its relationship with Egypt over the next few days, according to a statement released by the bloc on Sunday while U.S. lawmakers called for cutting military aid to the Arab country after hundreds of Islamists supporters of the deposed President Mohammed Mursi were killed by security forces.

Warning the further escalation of violence could result in “unpredictable consequences,” Herman Van Rompuy, President of the European Council and Jose Manuel Barroso, President of the European Commission urged Egypt’s army and interim government to restrain from violence, restart dialogue and adhere to the democratic process.   Read More

Egypt considers disbanding Muslim Brotherhood
 
The list of Christian churches, schools, institutions, shops torched by the Muslim Brotherhood in the last three days

U.S. military needs Egypt for access to critical area

al-Zawahri’s brother reportedly arrested in Egypt

Looters ransack Egyptian antiques museum and snatch priceless artefacts as armed police move inside stormed Cairo mosque 

Thousands rally for Egypt’s Mursi in Israel


Cairo Islamist Arrests: 1000 Muslim Brotherhood supporters arrested amid latest deadly violence

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