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Egyptian Activists Call for More Protests in Wake of 3 Deaths

CAIRO (AP) — Egyptian activists on Wednesday used social networking sites to call for a fresh wave of demonstrations, a day after they staged the biggest protests in years in Egypt to demand the end of President Hosni Mubarak’s nearly 30-year rule.

However, the Interior Ministry warned that police would not tolerate any gatherings, marches or protests, suggesting that security forces would immediately crackdown at the first sign of protesters gathering.

Across the Egyptian capital on Wednesday, thousands of riot police were deployed in anticipation of fresh anti-government, Tunisia-inspired protests. A day earlier, tens of thousands demonstrated in Cairo and several other Egyptian cities to call for Mubarak’s ouster and a solution to rampant poverty, rising prices and high unemployment.

Security officials, meanwhile, said up to 200 protesters were detained early Wednesday during clashes between police and protesters in Cairo and elsewhere in this Arab nation of some 80 million people.

More were likely to be detained as authorities review police video tapes of the protests, the officials said, speaking on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak to the media.

Two protesters and a policeman were killed in Tuesday’s protests and some 250 were wounded, including 85 policemen, when riot police used tear gas and batons to disperse protesters shortly after midnight. Medical officials said a third protester died Wednesday from injuries sustained a day earlier.

In the southern city of Assiut, eyewitnesses said riot police set upon some 100 activists staging an anti-government protest Wednesday, beating them up with batons and arresting nearly half of them.

Activists had organized Tuesday’s protests, dubbed “day of revolution against torture, poverty, corruption and unemployment,” on the social networking site Facebook, and demonstrators spread word of where to gather on Twitter.

“All of Egypt must move, at one time,” the Facebook group organizing the demonstrations said in a posting Wednesday in which it listed a number of spots in Cairo and around the country where demonstrators should gather.

Thousands of policemen in riot gear and backed by armored vehicles took up posts on bridges across the Nile, at major intersections and squares as well as outside key installations like the state TV building and the headquarters of Mubarak’s ruling National democratic Party in central Cairo.

The capital remained quiet in the early afternoon with no sign of fresh protests.

Egypt’s benchmark stock index tumbled more than 5 percent early Wednesday, the first concrete sign that the demonstrations have impacted the country’s economy. The EGX30 index was down almost 5.3 percent to 6,367.27 points by about 1:30 p.m. local time. The drop was the sharpest since May, when the index fell slightly over 6 percent.

Egyptian Activists Call for More Protests in Wake of 3 Deaths

The protests were Egypt’s biggest in years and are likely to fuel dissent in a presidential election year. Mubarak, 82, has yet to say whether he plans to run for another six-year term in office. He is thought to be grooming his son Gamal to succeed him, a prospect that is opposed by many Egyptians.

“Down with Hosni Mubarak, down with the tyrant,” chanted the crowds in Cairo on Tuesday. “We don’t want you!” One sign carried by protesters on Tuesday said: “Gamal, take your dad and go.”

The European Union on Wednesday said Egyptian authorities should listen to their people, deal with their problems and respect their right to demonstrate.

The office of EU foreign affairs chief Catherine Ashton on Wednesday urged “Egyptian authorities to respect and to protect the right of Egyptian citizen to manifest their political aspirations.”

A less assertive reaction came from Washington Tuesday, when Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said Egypt’s government, a key U.S. ally in the Middle East, was stable and Egyptians have the right to protest, though she urged all parties to avoid violence.

Egyptian Activists Call for More Protests in Wake of 3 Deaths

Nearly half of all Egyptians live under or just above the poverty line, set by the World Bank at $2 a day. The widespread poverty, high unemployment and rising food prices pose a threat to Mubarak‘s regime at a time when tensions between Muslims and Christians are adding to the nation’s woes.

“I support change,” said Sami Imam, a 53-year-old retired teacher who took part in Tuesday’s protests. “The police cannot kill us because we, to all practical purposes, are already dead,” the father of four said Tuesday as he clutched Egypt’s red, white and black flag.

“I have not visited the butcher in six months,” he said, in a reference to Egypt’s rising meat prices.

The protests also follow a parliamentary election marred by allegations of widespread fraud that saw Mubarak‘s ruling National Democratic Party win all but a small number of the chamber’s 518 seats.

In recent weeks, Mubarak and his son have repeatedly vowed to ensure that ambitious economic reforms engineered by the younger Mubarak over the past decade filter down to the poor. But that has not happened and there has been a marked increase in the frequency of street protests over the economy.

In another parallel with Tunisia, the Egyptian protests drew energy from the death of a single young man – Khaled Said, whose family and witnesses say was beaten to death by two policemen in Alexandria last year. His slaying has become a rallying point for Egypt’s opposition.

Tunisia’s protests were also sparked by a single death, that of a poor Tunisian vegetable vendor who set himself on fire to protest corruption. That act has been copied by at least six people in Egypt.

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Associated Press reporter Tarek el-Tablawy contributed to this report.

Comments (57)

  • TwoMinuteMan
    Posted on January 27, 2011 at 6:43pm

    Good evening Mr. Riot, your host this evening will be Mr. Riot Police.

    I’m not going to pretend i even care about what this is all about. The egyptians can learn a thing or 2 from the American Civil rights movement. The rule of law must be observed, unless it is an unjust law.

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  • texasfarmer
    Posted on January 26, 2011 at 7:46pm

    You may be seeing similarities in actions between Muslims and unions.

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  • Katayno
    Posted on January 26, 2011 at 7:41pm

    Add your comments

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  • Katayno
    Posted on January 26, 2011 at 7:39pm

    Uh oh…..the Egyptions can kiss their internets goodbye. THis is why Iran and N. Korea don’t allow the internet. This Has nothing to do with Religion…..the Egyption people are sick of the Monarchy sucking their lives from them.

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  • Lloyd Drako
    Posted on January 26, 2011 at 5:39pm

    5:30 PM EST, Wed., Jan. 26.
    As of this moment the Blaze has

    69 comments on Dennis Kucinich’s run-in with an olive pit,
    168 comments on what Donald Trump had to say about Obama’s “China love,”
    186 comments on what Frances Fox Piven says about what Glenn Beck says about what Piven says about what Beck says about . . . oh, well, you get the idea,
    200 comments about Utah’s designation of a state gun,
    325 comments about what Michelle Bachmann was doing with her eyes last night.
    44 comments about a possible regime-changing revolution in Egypt.

    All the original items were posted this morning within 2-3 hours of one another.

    What does this say about the folks who hang out here (with a few honorable exceptions)?

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    • Lloyd Drako
      Posted on January 26, 2011 at 5:43pm

      Sorry, that’s 111 comments about Kucinich and the olive pit.

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  • 2Valhalla
    Posted on January 26, 2011 at 5:03pm

    I feel for those people in Egypt..and especially Christians whom have been tortured, the young Christian Girls who have been kidnapped and forced to marry Muslim and never see their family.
    With USa’s devastated economy Budget Deficit, the Egypt’s of the world will get less generosity from USA. More Poverty ? More Backlash ? More Fires to try to put out by USA Military ? The world’s in a very bad way-IMO.

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  • roostercogburn
    Posted on January 26, 2011 at 4:54pm

    If their last protest only caused 3 deaths, why not stage another protest after all there really is not that much to do there, they have been killing each other as a hobby for a few thousand years..

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  • dontbotherme
    Posted on January 26, 2011 at 4:36pm

    We too have had protests in the streets by the hundreds of thousands recently. We were fed up & let our leaders know that we had enough. We were peaceful. We will be peaceful, because this is who Americans really are. We were ignored, taunted, disrespected, called names & dismissed. And yet, we remain peaceful. We will not, however, be silenced & we will not sit down. We will not accept socialism/communism.

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  • 9thCommandment
    Posted on January 26, 2011 at 2:59pm

    Watch out for all the anti-USA fallout. Shieks gonna protect their $$$$$$, you “citizens” of Egypt have about as much rights as the “citizens” of N.Korea, but it‘s America’s fault, that’s the message that will sell and save the Shieks S#%T.

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  • SRone11
    Posted on January 26, 2011 at 1:25pm

    I am in full support of the protestors.

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  • docgreen
    Posted on January 26, 2011 at 12:17pm

    Only one Problem with Utopia, Islam, and there Global conquest of the world! Take out the dictators, and you still have the Mullahs!

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  • Windsong
    Posted on January 26, 2011 at 12:10pm

    Have you noticed a pattern here? Tunisia did the same thing. Perhaps the ‘little people’ all over the world are sick of having a dictator that doesn’t feed them or do anything to improve their lives, ‘rule over them and talk to them as if they were infants. Perhaps there are too many ‘dictators’, who love power more than people. Perhaps, the ‘new’ governments installed in these countries will be chosen by the PEOPLE…and given term limits.
    Perhaps the PEOPLE in every country would all get along just fine…without their ‘leaders’ standing in the way with his fist in the air. Perhaps harmony among all countries would be a simple thing…if only the power hungry, bomb making, orators ‘leading’ these countries didn’t always stand in the way.
    Perhaps, the PEOPLE of the world – without violence – can accomplish what most ‘leaders’ consistently promise but rarely accomplish. Perhaps the PEOPLE of the world will find that a government that works for them, educates them, protects their borders and helps them become the best they can be, would mean happy, healthy and productive lives for all.
    There would be no need for a United Nations, and there would be no need for ‘world counsels’.
    We will all grow our own foods, practice our own religions, manufacture our own products and respect and honor each other. There will be lots of trade, and lots of expertise traveling from country to country. Clean water, safe food, protection from disease, safe and warm – or cool – housing, electricity and indoor plumbing all over the world would be an amazing improvement. All those nuclear plants can be made into stations that power the countries.
    Without tyrants, all the people in the world would wake up happy, healthy and hopeful every morning… for the first time in their lives.

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  • docgreen
    Posted on January 26, 2011 at 12:04pm

    This is why the only thing that works in Society is Capitalism!….. You need all three classes of people! When your trying to do what Obama’s doing it just creates a bigger gap!

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    • Nick84
      Posted on January 27, 2011 at 5:21am

      That’s why we have socialized utilities, roads, police, fire depts, sometimes ems, and military?

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  • GhostOfJefferson
    Posted on January 26, 2011 at 12:02pm

    What does this article or events described in the article have to do with Islam? Did you read the article?

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  • docgreen
    Posted on January 26, 2011 at 12:00pm

    To me Its just another lie, kind of like Obama saying, spread the wealth, the only people he spreads the wealth to is Corporations like GE, SEIU, Fannie Mae, Freedie Mac, and of course any lobbyists thats working with him and the progressives!….

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  • docgreen
    Posted on January 26, 2011 at 11:54am

    Let me guess, the 5 pillars of Obama’s messiah speech just so happens to coincied with Islams 5 pillars?

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  • MrButcher
    Posted on January 26, 2011 at 11:27am

    The recent developments in Tunisia, Albania, Yemen and Egypt are very encouraging though much still needs to be seen (it can be good or it can turn bad). Its great to see such despotic governments revolted against. And its spreading…Lebanon is also collapsing.

    I hope this is being pumped into Iran and China.

    These rebels should have our support and solidarity. Especially Egypt.

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    • GhostOfJefferson
      Posted on January 26, 2011 at 11:59am

      Agree completely. What may or may not be established should any governments go down can only be speculated on, but I see no good reason at all to ever support a dictator. If they establish their own dictatorship after an overthrow that’s bad and should not be supported by us, but neither should we support a current dictatorship simply because it‘s what we’re used to dealing with. Both are wrong.

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    • MrButcher
      Posted on January 26, 2011 at 12:22pm

      yes.

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    • Lloyd Drako
      Posted on January 26, 2011 at 6:37pm

      If you are right and “it” is “spreading,” then what should the US do?

      It’s conceivable that we confront a situation now in the Middle East analogous to the one we faced vis-a-vis the Soviet Bloc and the USSR in 1989-1991, or even what the latterly much-put-upon Woodrow Wilson had to deal with in 1919.

      Some bad decisions were made on both occasions. Bush 41 more or less punted, Wilson did worse–he ran the wrong way with the ball.

      Does Obama seem likely to be up for what might be happening here? Has he understood what the consequences might be for Israel, hence for US politics?

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  • Fight for America
    Posted on January 26, 2011 at 10:53am

    Mind leap re Middle East, etc. – Perhaps we can erase our multi- trillion dollar Debt by selling rocks to certain countries so they can keep lobbing them at each other for another 2 or 3 thousand years?

    Didn’t our current president say version of wording last night about our people in that room not wanting to be in any other country on the planet? Why, then, does our America need a “fundamental transformation” instead of simple tweaking?

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  • GhostOfJefferson
    Posted on January 26, 2011 at 10:40am

    Did you read the article?

    What if Obama declared himself dictator, held sham elections and ended up reigning for 30 years and was about to enter another 6 year “term”? Further, what if he made it a policy to openly torture and kill dissenters, who in this case would…oh I don’t know….conservative/libertarians, and legally stopped all protests? Wouldn’t you be a bit mad brother? Wouldn’t you be looking at your maps trying to figure out where you buried your M1A1 so you could do something about that horrid state of affairs?

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    • Lloyd Drako
      Posted on January 27, 2011 at 10:46am

      That is probably exactly what many of the people who post here think Obama is planning to do!

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  • Gonzo
    Posted on January 26, 2011 at 10:28am

    This isn’t going to end well. When the muslim countries revolt, thet generally replace the existing with a radical theocracy. Radical theocracies generally take their marching orders from Iran. Armageddon doesn’t seem like a distant future anymore.

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    • Lloyd Drako
      Posted on January 26, 2011 at 10:50am

      There aren’t that many precedents to go by here, since genuine revolution has been a rarity in the Muslim world. But snce almost all Egyptians are Sunni Muslims, and the Iranians are Shia, this doesn’t seem likely. An Eyptian theocracy would probably become, not an Iranian puppet, but a rival of Iran for Islamist radicals, in much the same way as Communist China created a competing pole of attraction to the USSR for the world’s leftists.

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    • GhostOfJefferson
      Posted on January 26, 2011 at 10:58am

      Interesting observation Drakko. Egyptians have always been somewhat unique in the Arabic speaking world. They themselves are not technically Arabic, having had the Arabic language and customs thrust upon them during the time of Islam’s major spread throughout the middle east. Their original customs, culture and language were Egyptian (not Arabic) and more interleaved in Western trade and events than in the events of the surrounding region. Even today they preserve the last stages of the Coptic language that was once Egyptian in some of their official customs and religious institutions. They’re also much more tolerant of Christians than other nations in the region. They‘re nobody’s pawn, and as you suggest, would likely become a competing power to Iran, assuming they go down the theocracy path.

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  • Lloyd Drako
    Posted on January 26, 2011 at 10:14am

    Given that this may be the most important news story of the day–much more than Obama’s SOTU address, why are there so few comments on it, nearly 2 hours after it was posted?

    Several times in the past 200 years, Europe was rocked by seemingly unstoppable waves of revolutionary disturbance: 1848, 1918, 1968, 1989. Latin American nations sometimes seem to move almost in lockstep from dictarship to democracy and back.

    Now we may be seeing the same sort of thing beginning in the Middle East, in Tunisia, in Egypt and elsewhere. It may sputter out, but equally it may go on to overthrow regime after regime, replacing old and corrupt despotisms with Islamic theocracies, communist-style dictatorships, social democracies, free-market democracies, or possibly even something we can’t quite conceive yet.

    Pay attention, people! Egypt is the biggest Arab-speaking country in the world and the second biggest recipient of US foreign aid (mostly military aid), so that any movement that succeeds in toppling Mubarak is likely to want to confront the superpower that provided him with so much of his repressive technology. How the US reacts will be as consequential as how it reacted to events in Russia in 1917, China in 1949 or Iran in 1979.

    As you can see, the precedents are not happy ones. It’s dangerous to back a doomed tyrant to the end, but also dangerous to abandon one precipitately (think Batista or the Shah). Do we want to support elements that seem committed to democracy, even if their rhetoric is anti-American? Or stay with the devil we know?

    I’m not answering these questions, just asking them. Please get your short little attention spans off nonentities like Van Jones and Frances Fox Piven and start informing yourselves about what is really going on in the Middle East, which may not fit so easily into your preconceived boxes.

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    • GhostOfJefferson
      Posted on January 26, 2011 at 10:35am

      Good questions. Given my druthers, I’d go with the unstated option, namely, we stop meddling over there and let them handle their own affairs. Stop financing, supporting (or denouncing) and let them iron out their own destinies. An awful lot of the problems in the middle east today are a direct result of meddling from outsiders (not just the U.S., but not excluding us either). While there have always been wars there and across the rest of the globe it wasn’t nearly at the “critical mass” stage it is now back when we more or less ignored the region as a nation.

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  • BQI
    Posted on January 26, 2011 at 9:08am

    Although the issue might be different, this story reflects the wordlwide unrests that exist and which we at BQI believe will continue and spread. BQI has written several stories of the impending social unrest coming to America. Much was done in response to Beck’s work. We hope people prepare soon. See the stories @ http://www.blackquillandink.com

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    • PubliusPencilman
      Posted on January 26, 2011 at 10:11am

      I predict that sometime some people in world will be dissatisfied with their government! I further predict that there will be demonstrations and or riots somewhere in the world.

      Good job there Nostradamus. Here are some more predictions: labor organizations somewhere in the world will go on strike for something. There will be more shooting deaths in the United States. There will be civil unrest somewhere in China.

      Now, if any of these predictions are true, then it is undoubtedly a sign of the apocalypse! Be prepared!

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    • GnomeChomsky
      Posted on January 26, 2011 at 1:16pm

      Hey publius you forgot to plug you blog!

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  • CCulotta
    Posted on January 26, 2011 at 8:58am

    Coming soon to a city near you. Hope everyone is taking step to prepare for when the kool-aid drinkers actually start doing what Van Jones and Francis Fox Piven are telling them to do.

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    • GhostOfJefferson
      Posted on January 26, 2011 at 9:21am

      These people are rioting for the right reasons. Did anybody read the actual article? They are living under a tyrant. The tyrant is torturing and killing people, banning protests and acting in all ways like a middle eastern Hitler. Good decent people SHOULD protest this and riot. Criminee.

      Report Post » GhostOfJefferson  
    • PubliusPencilman
      Posted on January 26, 2011 at 10:13am

      Sorry GhostofJefferson,
      Usually The Blaze is pretty clear on whether the posters should agree or disagree with the events being fed to them. I guess this time the signals got a little crossed. It gets really confusing when the Blaze does not explicitely tell you what to think.

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    • GhostOfJefferson
      Posted on January 26, 2011 at 10:28am

      @PubliusPencilman

      “Usually The Blaze is pretty clear on whether the posters should agree or disagree with the events being fed to them. I guess this time the signals got a little crossed. It gets really confusing when the Blaze does not explicitely tell you what to think.”

      I think for myself. Stop being insulting.

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    • PubliusPencilman
      Posted on January 26, 2011 at 11:44am

      No worries Ghost–that was my point. It was Cculotta I was making fun of.

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    • GhostOfJefferson
      Posted on January 26, 2011 at 12:04pm

      @Pencil

      On re-reading I see now that you were not targeting me. My mistake, sorry, I posted in haste.

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    • GnomeChomsky
      Posted on January 26, 2011 at 1:14pm

      @ghost
      I too question whether this poster has actually read the article. In fact I have long suspected that is the case with most commenters on most articles.There are just far too many instances of people contradicting or just getting plain wrong information that is explicit in the text for it to be simply coincedence or mistakes. The headline is read and out come the comments. Ive also noticed a growing trend in “articles” with little to no text and only videos which leads me to believe the Blaze editors are aware of this phenomenon so have adjusted artcile format accordingly.

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    • GhostOfJefferson
      Posted on January 26, 2011 at 1:48pm

      @Gnome

      I‘m not particularly fond of the video in lieu of articles that I’m seeing not only here, but on a lot of sites these days. Videos leave me cold, I prefer to read and go over words carefully in order to form an opinion. Videos give me only the frame of reference of the video maker. Granted, written pieces can be and often are slanted, but it’s easier to notice in writing. While there is a place for videos, they should supplement the article and not BE the article, in my opinion.

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    • cromag11b
      Posted on January 27, 2011 at 2:11pm

      Way to be in touch with your surroundings there.
      This is what should have happened in Iraq. Not my happy ass spending over 3 years there.

      This is why I also think the doom machine’s (beck and crew) have it wrong for ‘riots in the street’ as part of a commie/socialist/NOW/lizard people world take over. Maybe on day over food, but not social order. Essentially Americans are too lazy to do something like this; to comfortable to be troubled with it.

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  • Helldogger
    Posted on January 26, 2011 at 8:22am

    More civility from the religion of peice. Probably spurred by Islamophobes, I’m sure.

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    • mtnclimberjim
      Posted on January 26, 2011 at 8:28am

      It couldn’t happen to a nicer bunch of buffoons.

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    • GhostOfJefferson
      Posted on January 26, 2011 at 9:13am

      Hey, come on, this isn’t about Islam. These people are being lorded over by a tyrant, who is destroying any hope for a decent life for them, as well as torturing people with impunity. If we lived under a tyrant who had reigned for 30 years, who bankrupted us, who destroyed our economy, who tortures dissenters, who outlaws protests, we’d be in the midst of a civil war.

      Ultimately all human beings share some common ground, and where we do I’d hope that we could put aside our differences and root for a good cause (if we cannot actively help).

      GhostOfJefferson  
    • Lloyd Drako
      Posted on January 26, 2011 at 9:47am

      Your comment makes no sense.

      Are you suggesting that these Egyptian demonstrators are Islamists?

      Or that they are “Islamophobes,” meaning people who are somehow against Islam?

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    • PubliusPencilman
      Posted on January 26, 2011 at 10:06am

      “Hey, come on, this isn’t about Islam.”
      I agree with you that we should support any people who want to overthrow a tyrannical government in order to establish a more democratic country. However, it seems rather convenient, and even disingenuous, of you to say that this isn’t about Islam. Certainly Blaze posters have blamed Islam itself for any crime committed by a Muslim person, yet it is suddenly not about Islam when Muslim people do something you support. So really Islam is just a strawman for anything you don’t like, and anything you do like is “not about Islam.” Tricky….

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    • GhostOfJefferson
      Posted on January 26, 2011 at 10:27am

      @PubliusPencilman

      Your mistake is that you collectivize and assume based on that, then judge my posts incorrectly.

      If you were to adopt an individualist viewpoint and dismiss with your assumed collectivist mindset, you‘d note that I’m a reasonable man who tries not to jump to conclusions about any religion or lack thereof. In other words, I don’t make it a habit to run around screaming “Islam!”.

      You may now revise your comments accordingly.

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    • Xcori8r
      Posted on January 26, 2011 at 11:09am

      We have been giving over $1.5 BILLION a year to Egypt for decades. Obama has been jiggering how how the money is spent. I don‘t know if it’s the cause, but it’s likely a factor. A secure dictator on our side beats the hell out of Islamic Fascism. Remember a guy named Pahlavi ? He was called the Shah of Iran before the radicals took to the streets and Carter yanked his support.

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    • Gonzo
      Posted on January 26, 2011 at 11:10am

      Hey Ghost, Some people cheered the ousting of the Sha of Iran for the same reasons. I think it’s too early to tell if this is a positive or negative development. You can bet the Iranians are licking their chops.

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    • RECOVERING-LIBERAL-IN-WOODSIDE-CA
      Posted on January 26, 2011 at 11:25am

      GONZO AND GHOST
      I think you are both on the right track. This could be an opportunity for America to stand up for the average person in North africa and Middle East. I “dislike” the Islamofascists as much as anyone else on the blog, but these people are screaming for their God-given rights. Pray that the terrorists don’t step in and “help” these people.

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    • PubliusPencilman
      Posted on January 26, 2011 at 11:43am

      “If you were to adopt an individualist viewpoint and dismiss with your assumed collectivist mindset”
      Aside from this gobbledygook (and all its ideological coding), you are certainly right that I should not paint you necessarily with the same brush as those who attack Islam on these boards. Attacking Islam, however, is so widespread and so rarely objected to on The Blaze that perhaps you can forgive my mistake.

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    • Lloyd Drako
      Posted on January 26, 2011 at 11:43am

      @XCORI8R
      Right you are!

      But there’s also such a thing as throwing good money after bad.

      What if we double down and Mubarak still ends up getting chased out of Egypt with a pile of ill-gotten loot?

      There are situations in the world that America simply cannot control, and I have a strong feeling this may be one of them.

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    • Rogue
      Posted on January 26, 2011 at 3:49pm

      I don’t fault the people for rising up, but I fear there is no coherent plan as to what will fill the void if the government falls. When that happens in an islamic society, you generally get a barely functioning government based on strict religious principles.

      Israel has got to be nervous at this news – they certainly do not want an unstable, or collapsed, nation along thier western border.

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    • cromag11b
      Posted on January 27, 2011 at 2:07pm

      People can only overthrow their government when aided by a US invasion I take it?

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