BREAKING: Morsi Stands His Ground - Clashes Erupt in Cairo near US Embassy - Emergency Message Issued for US Citizens

[link to liveblog.egyptindependent.com]

Live blog with lots of images from all over Egypt.

But seriously if you are away from the square and major streets around it you will be fine.

Is there some kind of Council of Judges that is standing up to Morsi?

What is the organised opposition to Morsi's power grab?

Until the door to door starts...

By all means we should kill these ladies..to liberate them from the ayatollas

There won't be any of that, not here where men will stay in the streets protecting their families and neighborhoods.

Do you think it will turn violent?

It's not that kind of time or place.

Thousands of middle aged guys are peacefully -- if vigourously -- marching around mad at one politician.

This isn't ethnic or international. It is a popular uprising against a greedy, powergrabbing politician.

The Egyptians have again and again -- with very, very few criminal exceptions --showed themselves as restrained and self-respecting people during a time like this.

What about radical islamists hell bent on raping and attacking non muslims? or those against Morsi?

How I wish I understood Arabic!

This livestream has been alternating between 4 different news feeds of HUGE demonstrations.

[link to www.ontv-live.com]

Are they trying to pressure Morsi to step down, or renounce his dictatorial powers?

Do they favor a Council of Judges to step in to take the reigns of government?

Are they marching towards any particular government building?

Agreed....

Its just political commentary on the situation. and the protests are in different places around cairo.

For every one criminal hell-bent on raping foreign women, there are thousands of decent, steady, sturdy family men setting up neighborhood watch groups to protect everyone in their local neighborhood.

The people out demonstrating know that they run the risk of violent opposition.

The local custom and culture is to protect the women, children, and seniors who remain peacefully at home. So they establish neighborhood watch groups.

Well thats good to know :)

It's hard to say.

THOUSANDS of people are out!

[link to www.ontv-live.com]

They need portapotties, water, and food stands set up!

Taking a que from barrak O'bauhma huh? The guy is nut's.

Where does the military stand in all of this?

If Morsi was smart, he would suddenly lay out millions of dollars to import several world class soccer teams for exhibition games to distract people.

The motivation to establish the Caliphate is a very real one; one in which Hussein Obama has been asked prior to serve as the Western representative as Caliph.

It is frustratingly obvious the moves made recently by Obama and his administration to, in the very least, support the emplacement of Muslim Brotherhood in order to further attaining this goal.

As the greater balance of the US population is consumed with their continued personal distractions ranging across the board from their latte' to their Obama phone, Hussein & Co. have been focusing their attention to removing heads of state, only to pave the path for the MB.

What we're seeing now in Egypt is no accident as well, nor was the decision of naming Egypt to oversee the cease fire between Israel and Gaza. Additional unrest now in Egypt focused on the government pulls the light away from such oversight, and any change to that government, if even by appearance only, opens the door for the cease fire to go on unmanaged, to collapse completely, or to be enforced by a "new" Egypt government that is predisposed to side against Israel with no effort of impartiality towards either side.

This is not unrelated to the Israel/ Gaza conflict, nor the balance of the unrest in the ME, including West Bank, Lebanon, Jordan, Tunisia, Libya, Syria, and Turkey. Every minute of these, collectively, are at their core a means to further the emplacement of the MB at Hussein & Co's direction, thereby creating and installing the Caliphate.

It is very real, and "the writing is on the wall" for those who wish to see beyond our first-world distractions.

Last Edited by ClydeX on 11/27/2012 12:02 PM

Well that's a poignant question because there was a big hoop-tee-doo the other day because, evidently, the president got wind that the judges were going to rule something or other unconstitutional (there has been such a political and legislative whirlwind, it's hard to remember) and if they did that, the president would no longer be president and the country would return to military control. So, if this is true (and keep in mind the media in Egypt these days is a wild ride in terms of rumor and innuendo), his declaration prevented a military coup. Is it true? WHO KNOWS.

One thing is for sure: Egyptians as a whole love and respect the military. That has not changed.

This is a FACT.

Did I hear correctly on Reuters??

They are calling for Jihad??

Breaking: Protester dies from tear gas in Egypt, death toll now at 4

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I dunno, but the word "jihad" doesn't simply mean 'holy war', but traditionally means something more like 'struggle with righteous resolve'.

Only within the past decade or two has jihad become synonymous with violence and terrorism.

According to Muslim aquantainces, it is more traditionally used to describe just this sort of thing going on now, a righteous struggle to depose a dictator. It could be peaceful or violent. If people most generally tend to be peaceful and reasonable, then this sort of thing is a peaceful and reasonable jihad, but a true jihad just the same.

Or one can "wage jihad" against things like one's own overeating or laziness.

If you mentally translate jihad as struggle, things make a lot more sense.

Kind of like the English word crusade. You can take up weapons and crusade against an enemy and shed lots of blood. Or you can go on a crusade against making yourself fat with junk food by cleaning out your pantry.

I know that given meaning.

But what I heard had nothing to do with personal
overweight or laziness, here it was relating to a call
for a holy war against....( fill in yourself, Israel or the West?)

where did you hear it? in other news facebook is down.

I didn't hear that either...for me al ahram online was down earlier they had good updates on everything. Facebook works for me right now.

Crazy days eh?

Interesting...didn't hear that particular rumor, so much of that around...plus media and western MSM, if you're not confused already, those will do it.