Egypt denies entry to Yemeni Nobel laureate.
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Source: Al Jazeera
Egyptian authorities have barred Yemeni Nobel Peace laureate Tawakul Karman from entering the country on Sunday and put her on a flight back to Dubai, security sources said. State news agency MENA said Karman, who had previously announced her solidarity with supporters of deposed president Mohamed Morsi, was on a list of people who were not allowed to enter Egypt. A spokesperson for Morsi's Muslim Brotherhood said Karman had recently joined demonstrations in Cairo demanding the former leader be reinstated. Karman's Twitter feed on Sunday said the writer and activist had been held at Cairo Airport and was prevented from joining protests. She was sent back on the same plane she flew in on, the security sources said on Sunday.
The Brotherhood criticised Karman's deportation and said it was reminiscent of the rule of former autocrat Hosni Mubarak. "This is an abandonment of the gains of Egypt's January revolution. The government is reproducing the practices of Mubarak's state security," said Yasser Ali, a Brotherhood official and former presidential spokesperson.
Karman, a 34-year-old mother of three, who became a figure of symbolic importance in the 2011 Yemeni uprising, was the first Arab woman and second Muslim woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize. In Yemen she is called the "Iron Woman" and "Mother of the Revolution". Karman, a member of Yemen's leading Islamic opposition party, al-Islah, had denounced the army's toppling of Morsi, calling it a "coup" and a "blow to democracy".
In a statement on Friday, she said it had weakened moderate political Islam and strengthened the hand of religious fighters in the Arab world. "We can't allow this sense of disappointment in democracy to grow. This is terrifying. Rest assured the first beneficiary of the weakening currents of political Islam are violent terror groups."
Read more: http://www.aljazeera.com/news/middleeast/2013/08/20138501454455212.html
Nobel Peace Prize winner, champion of democracy and women's rights, first Arab woman to win the Nobel prize? To hell with all that, she doesn't bow to the rule of the military junta, so throw her out!
dlwickham
(3,316 posts)that certainly wasn't moderate by any stretch of the imagination
another_liberal
(8,821 posts)You had better read a little about her before you begin to insult her motives. Otherwise you may end up looking really foolish.
PatrynXX
(5,668 posts)not the smartest post I've seen on DU and probably worse than the worst ones I've posted...
dlwickham
(3,316 posts)just questioning her motives
not all democratically elected governments are created equal
he was accused of voter fraud by the opposition in the constitutional referendum
delrem
(9,688 posts)dlwickham
(3,316 posts)whether a government is removed by a vote or by the military, the act in itself is not "moderate" or "conservative" or "liberal"
the resulting government could be more moderate or even liberal than the one it replaced
delrem
(9,688 posts)dlwickham
(3,316 posts)Portugal had a left-wing military dictatorship for a while in the 70s
I believe that Burma might have been a left-wing military dictatorship
delrem
(9,688 posts)dlwickham
(3,316 posts)I thought we were discussing whether or not a military dictatorship was liberal or conservative
sorry if I misunderstood you
delrem
(9,688 posts)The term "moderate" doesn't equal "somewhere in a liberal vs conservative measuring stick", however the measuring stick is defined (that is, "moderate" w.r.t. liberal vs conservative in Canada, in terms of Canadian democracy, is a different thing than "moderate" w.r.t. the same in the USA, in terms of American democracy.
I can't for the life of me understand how anyone could tack the term "moderate" onto a military dictatorship, in the few months after a military coup which ousted the first democratically elected gov't after decades of decadent military rule, 1 year after that gov't was elected -- and then proceeds to measure that "moderation" favorably along some "liberal <-> conservative" curve.
Your use of the terms "moderate", "conservative", "dictatorship", "democracy", don't make any coherent sense to me.
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another_liberal
(8,821 posts)Just as in the case of this current mass embassy closing scare (which just happened to come along when the spy masters at NSA most needed to create some justification for their crimes) these people will do anything.