Egypt Brotherhood chief Mohammed Badie sentenced to death
Source: BBC News
An Egyptian court has confirmed the death sentence on Muslim Brotherhood leader Mohammed Badie and 12 others for planning attacks against the state.
The court also jailed a US-Egyptian citizen and several others for life.
Badie was sentenced in March and is embroiled in several other trials. The sentences are subject to appeal.
Hundreds of people have been sentenced to death in a crackdown on the Brotherhood following the removal of President Mohammed Morsi in 2013.
Read more: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-32263804
It's springtime for everyone in Egypt-land! Egyptians go into your dance!
(Credit to Mel Brooks...)
cosmicone
(11,014 posts)is restoring law and order.
Considering what the brotherhood did to Egyptian progressives and Coptic Christians, some form of punishment is necessary although death penalty might be debatable.
Surya Gayatri
(15,445 posts)cosmicone
(11,014 posts)if anyone deserves the death penalty, it is the religious and political leaders who incite impressionable young minds to turn to violence. Unfortunately, only Egypt is doing anything about it. In the rest of the world, the poor suckers die fighting for a non-existent cause whilst the real culprits are not even touched.
Surya Gayatri
(15,445 posts)Put them away, cut them off from all outside contact, yes. Kill them, no.
Comrade Grumpy
(13,184 posts)is restoring the military dictatorship.
Your hatred of Islamism makes it impossible for you to acknowledge any difference between people like the Muslim Brotherhood and the jihadis of ISIS and Al Qaeda.
Decades ago, the MB explicitly turned away from the path of violence. The party then won the first (and last) democratic elections in the country's history. And then Egypt's "progressives," acting like petulant little children, let themselves by played by the deep state--the military, the police, the court, the old Mubarek regime without Mubarek--and now they share jail cells with the MB.
The MB didn't do much of anything to "progressives"--it never had control over the repressive apparatus of the state. And I think it is a convenient lie that the MB were behind the attacks on Copts. That was mainly the jihadi crazies, the Salafists, and probably combined with provocateurs from the deep state.
Your beloved al-Sisi also gunned down thousands of people in the streets to secure his coup.
I think that by overthrowing the country's first democratically elected government, al-Sisi has ensured that Egypt is going to bleed for the foreseeable future. Block democratic participation and where do the Islamists go?
Yay, long live bloody-handed military dictators! Fuck democracy.
cosmicone
(11,014 posts)If I had seen thousands (or even dozens) of MB operatives protecting the coptic christians and other moderates/progressives who were on attack, I'd have had nothing but praise for MB.
I have praised such actions by other Muslim groups here and on other message boards.
Norway's Muslims form protective human ring around synagogue http://www.jpost.com/International/Norways-Muslims-form-protective-human-ring-around-synagogue-391733
In Karachi, a human shield for Hindus celebrating Holi http://www.dawn.com/news/1167564/in-karachi-a-human-shield-for-hindus-celebrating-holi
These actions show foresight and maturity which Islamic extremists including MB lack. On 9/11 anniversary, just because some idiot posted a youtube video denigrating Islam, a whole bunch of people surrounded the US embassy and threw stones etc. MB leaders including Morsi were silent. They should have gone on TV in front of the US Embassy explaining that the US government and American people had nothing to do with that video. That would have shown vision and maturity. There was zilch, zippo, nada, zero of that.
Muslims who show vision, maturity and tolerance are just like me and equal to me. I'll fight for them. The violent extremist ones? Not so much. Same goes for my opinion of extremist republicans or extremist Jews, Christians and Hindus.