Kerry Was Right, Egypt Was NOT a Coup, Instead it Was a Paid Hit By the Gulf Kingdoms

[MADem]

20. They don't have as large a following as you seem to believe.

Mursi didn't have a majority in the first round of elections--he got less than 25 percent of the vote, and only about forty percent of eligible voters even showed up to vote--not even a majority of the electorate.

The Egyptian system is one of those free-for-alls, where a zillion candidates can fracture the vote, and then there's a run-off between less than optimal "winners." If you group the two "Islamist" candidates on one team, and the "Secular" candidates on the other, the secular candidates took nearly sixty percent of the votes cast--so, that should tell you something about how the people of Egypt (or at least those who bothered to vote) think.

Many people who voted for Mursi held their nose; they weren't supporting him so much as disliking him less than the other guy. So the idea that Egypt "chose" him is false--he simply was the last man standing in a shitty system that doesn't choose the best candidate.

When he got into power, he pledged to be a humble servant of the people, then wiped his ass on the Constitution and started murdering his enemies.

The military, like it or not--and this is something that is hard for people in the west to understand--is expressing the will of the Egyptian people. They want the MB gone. Sooner beats later.

Your last paragraph tells me that you're invested in outrage, anger and lashing out--and that's your problem, not mine. Rather than getting shitty and personal with me, like that's going to "help," why don't you do a little reading, and learn how the people of Egypt--the vast majority, dealing with this shit--actually feel about the situation? They don't want to return to sanctioned pedophilia and murder in the name of Islam, abrogation of women's rights, and persecution of tens of millions of Copts, shi'as, and other sects in favor of a fundamental Islamic state. Names will never hurt ME, but they do make you look woefully uninformed about the situation on the ground in Egypt, a country I have some familiarity with--and I suspect you do not.

Start here: http://www.npr.org/2013/08/17/212862415/despite-violence-many-egyptians-support-military

Egypt witnessed the bloodiest day in its modern history this week. More than 600 people were killed, most during a security crackdown on supporters of ousted President Mohammed Morsi.

And it isn't over. Dozens more have died since, some in citizen-on-citizen violence. A standoff is going on at a central Cairo mosque...Much of Egypt has little sympathy for Morsi, the Muslim Brotherhood or their supporters....To many here, the Muslim Brotherhood is just a bunch of terrorists. The group propelled Morsi to power through elections last year, and few outside of the pro-Morsi marchers have sympathy for them. It is a narrative that's been, in part, shaped by local TV channels.

....Morsi committed human rights violations during his rule, critics say. He tried to fill the state with his own supporters and exclude others. The bloodbaths today, no matter how horrific, are widely accepted, Akl said.

"We will not necessarily see a civil war, but what we're seeing right now is probably a state of social aggression that the Islamic movement has never known before in Egypt," he says....."The Muslim Brotherhood says they'll burn Egypt if they don't get what they want," Mohammed Badr, the head of the group, told a local station. "But this country is bigger than them."

Read this entire article--snippets cannot do it justice, but it explains quite clearly why the people of Egypt have had enough of Mursi's bullshit:

http://www.alternet.org/world/5-things-you-need-know-about-egypts-new-revolution?paging=off