One form of bad government helping another, as the Ikhwan’s mask slips a little bit more. “Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood wants military immunity for generals, activists cry foul,” by Joseph Mayton for Bikya Masr, January 12:
CAIRO: In a move that has left many of the country’s activists angered, Egypt’s top political force the Muslim Brotherhood has said it was looking into a deal that would grant the ruling military junta immunity for alleged crimes committed against protesters since they took charge of the country in February last year.
The move would ensure the military relinquish power and enable the transition to a newly elected legislative body, but activists who have faced the end of the military’s guns, are not convinced and have called it a means for the Brotherhood to assert more power.
“What about the dozens of people who have been murdered by the military and the police under the military’s orders?” asked activist and protester Mahmoud Gama’a, who told Bikyamasr.com that the Brotherhood will face a backlash from protesters if they attempt to go forward with the idea.
“We will not stand by and not have justice for what the military has done to Egyptian people. It is unacceptable that any political force thinks they can let the blood of martyrs not get justice,” he added.
The goal of the Brotherhood is to create compromise within the country as their political arm, The Freedom and Justice Party (FJP) leads all voting with nearly 40 percent, ahead of a final vote count for the third and final round of parliamentary elections, which ended on Wednesday.
Despite the idea being floated this week by top Brotherhood officials, activists say it will not stop their campaign to have the top generals tried for what they have regularly dubbed “crimes against humanity.”
First they came for the Christians, and then the military turned on the rest of the country:
For a country where 90% of the traditional income flowed from tourism to one where Sharia prevents most tourism is going to be hard on a bunch of people in Egypt.
Heads will roll.
Just this week the leader of the 2nd biggest portion of the NEW gov’t there declared that all ancient depictions of “uncovered” Pharoes and their women should be freshly covered over with black, burkha or nikab-like paint on the original highrogliphics. (sp???) Earlier this same new leader of the Egyptian people called for the Pyramids to be covered in wax (hahaha!) just so they wouldn’t be falsely worshipped as idols.
In the past, back when the Muslim Brotherhood didn’t hide behind it’s new name, (peace & freedom, or something) their leaders swore, should they ever take power, that all tourist attractions from pre-Islamic times would be destroyed.
No replicas would be sold, no books made, no new digs allowed, and all who would break the new rules would be tried for ”apostasy” and executed if found guilty.
Looks like Egypt is getting there sooner rather than later.
I wonder what their new economy will be based on?
And they probably will! Just recently in Yemen the Yemeni Congress passed a law that protects the Dictator Saleh, and his family from any trials after he leaves office. His troops killed innocent people on his orders.Plus much much more. He even tried to escape here to America before Turkey day and we along with others had to fight our own government to stop him from being allowed to escape here after his part with the Cole attack, his support of Al-Qaeda, and his brutal actions against his own people. Politics!