#egypt

Members of the religious police attend a training course. The Saudi authorities have a unit dedicated specifically to hunting witches.

It is ironic that a state claiming to rule according to Islamic principles, Saudi Arabia, fears the rise to power of Islamists — both at home and in neighboring countries. One regional Islamist trend worries the Saudi leadership, the Muslim Brotherhood which has decided to engage in politics through elections and the democratic process.

Saudi legitimacy is based on an appropriation of Islamic symbols such as claims that „our constitution is the Quran“ and the application of sharia.

Many world leaders, including the American President Barak Obama, failed to influence the course of events with their uncertainty and unexplained hesitation toward events in Egypt. Indeed, Egypt and the Egyptians needed a true friend.

Western governments claiming the moral high ground could speak up for Saudi women reformers and their defenders, and strive to endorse lasting women‘s rights legislation based on civil society principles. However, such support is unlikely while the West benefits from petrodollar investments and a stable Saudi hand on the oil tap.

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The open backing by Saudi King Abdullah for the military crackdown in Egypt adds an entirely new dimension to the ongoing crisis.

Westliche Staaten wollen Ägypten wegen des brutalen Vorgehens gegen die Muslimbrüder die Finanzhilfen streichen. Jetzt kündigt das Nachbarland Saudi-Arabien Unterstützung an: Es will dem Militärregime die ausfallenden Zahlungen komplett ersetzen.

Von einigen wird angenommen, dass das Militär zur Zeit bis zu 40% der gesamten Wirtschaft des Landes kontrolliert, und seine Kriegskasse, die die angenehmen Ruhestände von Karrieregenerälen sicherstellt, die zu Multimillionären geworden sind, ist angeblich eines der grossen Vermögen der Welt.

Supporters of overthrown Egyptian president Mohamed Morsi has marched in a small rally by the Egyptian embassy in Berlin, the German capital, protesting the recent crackdown on protesters in Egypt.

Based on first-hand documentation and interviews with health workers by Human Rights Watch, and lists of the dead obtained by the Egyptian Center for Economic and Social Rights, the death toll during the dispersal of the Rab’a sit-in appears to be at least 377, significantlyhigher than the latest Rab’a death toll of 288 announced by the Health Ministry.

In the past, the European Union has brought down sanctions because of other massacres committed by authoritarian regimes, whether in Sri Lanka, Zimbabwe, Burma or Belarus.

One can legitimately expect that the 28 draw the right consequences from the killing in Cairo. To be explicit, that they suspend the €5bn in aid promised to Egypt.

Orhan Pamuk: Lassen Sie uns die Sache ganz altmodisch betrachten: Entweder gibt es so etwas wie westliche Werte, wie die Ideale von Demokratie, Meinungsfreiheit und so fort, oder es gibt sie nicht, weil sie immer wieder politischen oder ökonomischen Kalkülen unterworfen werden.

Süddeutsche: Und warum soll diese Unterscheidung so wichtig sein?

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Der Literatur-Nobelpreisträger Orhan Pamuk wirft der Europäischen Union und den USA vor, in Ägypten die eigenen Werte zu verraten. Obwohl der Putsch des Militärs gegen die Regierung angekündigt gewesen und dann auch erfolgt sei, habe die ganze Welt weggeschaut, sagte der 61-jährige Pamuk der „Süddeutschen Zeitung“ (Montag). Die ägyptische Armee töte, aber die öffentliche Meinung in den westlichen Ländern tue so, „als gäbe es da gar keine Verantwortung“.

Violent reaction to anti-military protests spurs some coup supporters to join the Brotherhood in the streets.

It was a very horrible night in which I saw two sides of Egypt. A dark side of the police, army and thugs, who kept firing all day on protesters (even the army used helicopters to attack them), and in the night kept chasing people in streets attacking and killing on identity and suspicion. I also saw a bright side, of young people standing firmly for the cause of freedom and against tyranny even if this cost them their lives, and normal people who answered the call of humanity protecting strangers in trouble and hosting them at their own homes.

#Egypt

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The prisoners, were captured during the fierce fighting in recent days, where the death toll has now reached 900. They were part of a truck convoy of some 600 people heading to Abu Zaabal prison in northern Egypt, according to the police.

The men were killed on Sunday while being transferred on Sunday to Abu Zaabal prison near Cairo in a convoy of about 600 detainees, sources told Al Jazeera.

„The true account is not out yet, we have received three contradictory statements,“ the alliance said.

De moordpartij vond gisteren plaats. Het busje was onderweg naar de Abu Zaabal-gevangenis.

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