Thus the two women being hit by the water cannon are in compliance with Hajib, they hair is covered. Now one who is getting the full blast may be wearing jeans, but can can be "Hajib" given the long jacker she is also wearing.
Now, I see a woman behind them without any head covering and it looks like another woman, fourth from the right running away from the cannon.
Everyone else is male.
Remember the Moslem Brotherhood did NOT require women to dress Hajib, recommended it but did not require it.
Here is President Morsi saying requiring Hajib for women is ridiculous and against Moslem Doctrine for Islam requires the Freedom of Choice. Thus women can and can NOT wear the Hajib. He then adds a "If this behavior turns into something that harms society, as in the general case with anything, the legislature will intervene as would be the case of any individual, even if it is the President of the Republic himself".
i.e if women do something that harms society, then what they did can be made illegal, just like if the President did something that harms society, what the President did can be made illegal. I.e he would make it illegal IF IT HARMS SOCIETY, but he sees no harm in women NOT wearing the Hajib.
Through Morsi did REMOVE the BAN on wearing the Hajib on Television and one female announcer did so.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/03/world/middleeast/egypt-abuzz-as-woman-in-hijab-reads-news-on-state-tv.html?_r=0
She later worked for Al Jazeera and resigned in July 2013. She claimed she resigned because of a Pro-Moslem Brotherhood biais of Al Jazeera. I suspect she is a native Egyptian and feared for her family unless she came out for Sisi, or at least came out as against the Moslem Brotherhood. i.e. She resigned to protect her family from retaliation. Such acts to protect one's family is not unknown in revolutions, and Egypt is still in a revolution, it is repressed right now, but it would take just the right spark to set it off again.
http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Journalism/2013/07/12/Al-Jazeera-Employees-Resign-Over-Network-Siding-with-Muslim-BrotherhoodRemember Morsi was only in power for a YEAR, Sisi has been in power for almost a year and a half. Thus you can NOT blame the further deteriation of the Egyptian Economy on Morsi. The deteration includes:
After the ouster of President Mohamed Morsi in July 2013, one year after he took office, Egypt entered another phase of political uncertainty. Economic growth has moderated, standing at just above 2% in both the 2011/12 and 2012/13 fiscal years. In 2012/13, the resilience of private consumption (81.2% of GDP) and the munificence of government consumption (11.7% of GDP) kept the economy from sliding into recession, as investment (14.2% of GDP) and exports (17.6% of GDP) remained weak. Unceasing violent protests and political instability have adversely affected manufacturing (15.6% of GDP), trade (12.9%) and tourism (3.2%). Only traditional sectors such as agriculture (14.5% of GDP) and mining (17.3%) have remained relatively unscathed.
The budget deficit, at 13.7% of GDP in 2012/13, is unsustainably high, and the highest among all emerging economies. The fiscal deficit in 2013/14 is expected to exceed 12% of GDP, well past the government’s target of 9.1%, as fiscal reforms are off the table for the present. In 2012/13, Egypt’s total public debt reached 99% of GDP, a level last seen in 2006/07. Public domestic debt reached 87.1% of GDP in June 2013, up from 78.6% in June 2012, resulting in interest payments of 8.4% of GDP. For the first time in four fiscal years, Egypt’s balance of payments recorded a surplus (USD 237 million) in 2012/13, aided by about USD 16 billion in financial support from the Gulf countries. This has eased the pressure on the exchange rate of the Egyptian pound against the US dollar and increased reserves to USD 17 billion as of December 2013, up from USD 15.5 billion in June 2012.
http://www.afdb.org/en/countries/north-africa/egypt/egypt-economic-outlook/The main reason Morsi was removed is he was addressing these issues, but that meant offending the Generals and their family members and friends, who control the wealth of Egypt. They (and the Christians, who are the "old money" in Egypt) opposed Morsi, for his plans was to take they money and use it to help the poor and the economy as a whole. If you remember right, every time Morsi did something someone was calling it illegal or unconstitutional, for the Judges of Egypt are of the same class as the Generals.
Thus the problem in Egypt, the poor and working class of Egypt (Roughly the bottom 60% of the population) look to the Moslem Brotherhood for leadership for there is no one else. The Top 10 % support the Egyptian 1% (the Generals and their Friends). The bottom 60% can NOT be squeezed anymore, thus the 30% between these two groups are the ones being squeezed today. Marx made the comment that when the Upper Middle Class is forced into the Working Class, you have a revolution. That is happening in Egypt right now, and has been for at least 10 years. That was the cause of the Arab Spring that lead to Egypt being taken over by the Moslem Brotherhood. You need the support of the Working Class (Roughly that group above the bottom 10 % but below the top 40%) and for decades that group has looked to the Moslem Brotherhood for leadership NOT any secular opposition to the Generals.
Sorry, any opposition will require any revolution to include the Working Class, and that means accepting many of the goals of the Moslem Brotherhood. Thus almost any opposition has to include members of the Brotherhood and those protests without the Brotherhood are meaningless (and ignored, as this one was NOT).
Just a comment that as the situation in Egypt goes from bad to worse, things will be stable. Another observation made by Marx, i.e. revolutions do NOT occur when things get worse, but when things bottom out and start to bounce back. Egypt has not bottomed out yet, so Sisi is safe, for now. Watch out if things do bottom out.
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