Egypt is back to where it was under Mubarak. The difference now is that the new Mubarak will claim he was elected by the people.
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Morsi wins Egypt presidential vote
CAIRO (AP) â Mohammed Morsi was declared Egypt's president on Sunday after the freest elections in the country's history, narrowly defeating Hosni Mubarak's last Prime Minister Ahmed Shafiq in a race that raised political tensions in Egypt to a fever pitch.
The country's last four presidents over the past six decades have all came from the ranks of the military. This is the first time modern Egypt will be headed by an Islamist and by a freely elected civilian.
Throngs of Morsi supporters in Cairo's Tahrir Square erupted in cheers and dancing when the result was read out on live television. Some released doves with his pictures over the square where the uprising that ousted Mubarak last year was born. Others set off fireworks.
Morsi's spokesman Ahmed Abdel-Attie said words cannot describe the "joy" in this "historic moment."
"We got to this moment because of the blood of the martyrs of the revolution," he said. "Egypt will start a new phase in its history."
The announcement was the culmination of a tumultuous, 16-month transition that was supposed to bring democratic rule, but was tightly controlled and curtailed by the military rulers who took power from Mubarak.
The outcome will not put an end to the main power struggle in the country now between Morsi's Muslim Brotherhood and the military.
The election commission said Morsi won with 51.7 percent of the vote versus 48.3 for Shafiq. Turnout was 51 percent.
Farouk Sultan, the head of the commission, described the elections as "an important phase in the end of building our nascent democratic experience."
Former Member
A king without power. A symbolic president.
Meddling???????????
Awright it's edu-kayshun time.
The Obama White House has congratulated Mohammed Morsi on his election, and has commended the Egyptian military on its handling of the election transition so far. Given the Egyptian military deep dependence on the US military for training, maintenance and supplies of advance weaponry, it is basically telling the Egyptian military to uphold the democracy and stay on the sidelines and show its face only if Egypt implodes and tear up treaties.
So where is the undoing of the Egyptian revolution?
Former Member
Originally Posted by Kari:
Meddling???????????
Awright it's edu-kayshun time.
The Obama White House has congratulated Mohammed Morsi on his election, and has commended the Egyptian military on its handling of the election transition so far. Given the Egyptian military deep dependence on the US military for training, maintenance and supplies of advance weaponry, it is basically telling the Egyptian military to uphold the democracy and stay on the sidelines and show its face only if Egypt implodes and tear up treaties.
So where is the undoing of the Egyptian revolution?
Egypt is headed for military rule, watch and see. The Saudis want to keep Egypt and they want Syria. The US will end up backing Saudi.
Former Member
Originally Posted by Lucas:
A king without power. A symbolic president.
Correct.
Former Member
The situation is somehow similar to that of Paraguay, where a leftist president had to "rule" under a totally right wing parliament and senate.
THE FIRST Four DECISIONS BY EGYPTAINâS PRESIDENT MORSI
1- Morsi donates his salary to Egypt
2- Issues a directive to neither put up his picture at any governmental building nor publish any congratulations to him in the newspapers.
3- Yesterday, he received the mother of the martyr Khaled Said and families of martyrs today at the Presidential Palace and instructed the presidential guards not prevent any martyrâs family requested to see him at any time. He also promised to punish the killers of the protesters by re-trial former President Hosni Mubarak and his interior minister, Habib al-Adli, and the rest of the defendants in the case of murdering the protesters.
4- Ordered that his convoyâs passing should not disrupt the traffic, and decided to stay at his house rather than relocating to the presidential palace.
1- Morsi donates his salary to Egypt
2- Issues a directive to neither put up his picture at any governmental building nor publish any congratulations to him in the newspapers.
3- Yesterday, he received the mother of the martyr Khaled Said and families of martyrs today at the Presidential Palace and instructed the presidential guards not prevent any martyrâs family requested to see him at any time. He also promised to punish the killers of the protesters by re-trial former President Hosni Mubarak and his interior minister, Habib al-Adli, and the rest of the defendants in the case of murdering the protesters.
4- Ordered that his convoyâs passing should not disrupt the traffic, and decided to stay at his house rather than relocating to the presidential palace.
America is controlling the milatry in Egypt and the milatary will be controlling the Gov't.
Back to square one!!
Former Member
Originally Posted by Chief:
America is controlling the milatry in Egypt and the milatary will be controlling the Gov't.
Back to square one!!
Have to keep a check on those Islamists.
Former Member
Originally Posted by baseman:
Originally Posted by Chief:
America is controlling the milatry in Egypt and the milatary will be controlling the Gov't.
Back to square one!!
Have to keep a check on those Islamists.
all the non-anglos must be kept on check
Elizabeth Arrott
June 28, 2012
Naglaa Ali Mahmoud, wife of Egypt's president-elect Mohamed Morsi, shuns the title of first lady, preferring instead the idea of a servant to the nation.
A sharper contrast to her predecessor, Suzanne Mubarak is hard to imagine. Both married future presidents while still in their teens, but the glittered, Westernized style of Mubarak proved alienating to many Egyptians. The abaya-wearing Mahmoud's life as a homemaker reflects, if nothing else, an Egypt more familiar to most.
In a rare interview granted to a Western news agency, Mahmoud spoke with VOA early in the campaign at the Morsi home in Edwa, in the eastern Nile Delta. With her husband upstairs and her grandchildren and their friends from the village playing in the room next door, she discussed her early marriage, the Muslim Brotherhood, and what lies ahead.
On Dr. Morsi, as she refers to him, joining the Muslim Brotherhood, and her life as a teenage wife with her then-graduate student husband in California
"The doctor joined the Brotherhood 31 years ago, when we were in Los Angeles. The Brothers were completely frank and explained that such a life could entail detention and one of the most important things is that the wife agreed to such a path so the household does not get shaken. To us [the Brotherhood] the family is a very important thing. So, if the wife cannot bear these expectations, you're exempt. Dr. Morsi came and told me the Brotherhood said this, that there could be detention and loss of employment. All of that while we were still in America. And I told him, 'No problem. No problem. Let's head down that road, God willing.'"
On leading the country, and the central role of the Muslim Brotherhood in their lives. Morsi, after his election, publicly resigned from the movement, which is led by a Shura council.
"This is the reason why we have many worries about [being in] any sensitive or responsible rank. We get concerned, not happy. We become worried and afraid, but of course ultimately we have an institution to which we comply to its words. We comply to its Shura council and this is our duty towards Egypt during this current time."
Her message to Egypt's Coptic Christians
"I would like to say that we are one homeland, one fabric. Islam does not differentiate between a Muslim and a Christian. On the contrary, we have learned in Islam that a Muslim and a Christian have the same full rights in the same homeland. They have what we have, and have our same obligations. I personally know in the society Christian women and men and, thanks be to God, my relations with them are good."
On the role of first lady and the president
"We in the Muslim Brotherhood consider it the first servant, because the republicâs president is supposed to be the first servant to Egypt. He is the one who sponsors, and this is Islam. In Islam whoever was in charge or handled the countryâs affairs [for example], our master Omar Ibn El Khattab used to say, 'if a camel stumbles in the Levant I will be held responsible' This is Islam.
On her husband
"He is a very balanced person, very serious. Not because he is my husband, no. It is true. It's his real nature, he is a very balanced and rational person with a political mentality. I mean I've been married to him for almost 31-32 years. I canât say he's comedian, but he has a sense of humor and is entertaining. He is serious at serious time, entertaining during down time."
A sharper contrast to her predecessor, Suzanne Mubarak is hard to imagine. Both married future presidents while still in their teens, but the glittered, Westernized style of Mubarak proved alienating to many Egyptians. The abaya-wearing Mahmoud's life as a homemaker reflects, if nothing else, an Egypt more familiar to most.
In a rare interview granted to a Western news agency, Mahmoud spoke with VOA early in the campaign at the Morsi home in Edwa, in the eastern Nile Delta. With her husband upstairs and her grandchildren and their friends from the village playing in the room next door, she discussed her early marriage, the Muslim Brotherhood, and what lies ahead.
On Dr. Morsi, as she refers to him, joining the Muslim Brotherhood, and her life as a teenage wife with her then-graduate student husband in California
"The doctor joined the Brotherhood 31 years ago, when we were in Los Angeles. The Brothers were completely frank and explained that such a life could entail detention and one of the most important things is that the wife agreed to such a path so the household does not get shaken. To us [the Brotherhood] the family is a very important thing. So, if the wife cannot bear these expectations, you're exempt. Dr. Morsi came and told me the Brotherhood said this, that there could be detention and loss of employment. All of that while we were still in America. And I told him, 'No problem. No problem. Let's head down that road, God willing.'"
On leading the country, and the central role of the Muslim Brotherhood in their lives. Morsi, after his election, publicly resigned from the movement, which is led by a Shura council.
"This is the reason why we have many worries about [being in] any sensitive or responsible rank. We get concerned, not happy. We become worried and afraid, but of course ultimately we have an institution to which we comply to its words. We comply to its Shura council and this is our duty towards Egypt during this current time."
Her message to Egypt's Coptic Christians
"I would like to say that we are one homeland, one fabric. Islam does not differentiate between a Muslim and a Christian. On the contrary, we have learned in Islam that a Muslim and a Christian have the same full rights in the same homeland. They have what we have, and have our same obligations. I personally know in the society Christian women and men and, thanks be to God, my relations with them are good."
On the role of first lady and the president
"We in the Muslim Brotherhood consider it the first servant, because the republicâs president is supposed to be the first servant to Egypt. He is the one who sponsors, and this is Islam. In Islam whoever was in charge or handled the countryâs affairs [for example], our master Omar Ibn El Khattab used to say, 'if a camel stumbles in the Levant I will be held responsible' This is Islam.
On her husband
"He is a very balanced person, very serious. Not because he is my husband, no. It is true. It's his real nature, he is a very balanced and rational person with a political mentality. I mean I've been married to him for almost 31-32 years. I canât say he's comedian, but he has a sense of humor and is entertaining. He is serious at serious time, entertaining during down time."
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