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Friday, November 23, 2012

Morsi crowns himself Pharaoh of Egypt


"Morsi today usurped all state powers & appointed himself Egypt's new pharaoh."
----- Pro-reform leader Mohamed ElBaradei



An Obama Connection?  -  Only hours after extensive talks with Comrade Obama about a cease fire in Gaza, Mohammed Morsi effectively makes himself dictator of Egypt.  Did Obama cut a deal allowing Morsi to install an Islamist government in return for help on Gaza?

The timing is not an accident.  Egypt needs American foreign aid and would do nothing without consulting our American Dear Leader first.

Egypt's president on Thursday issued constitutional amendments that placed him above judicial oversight and ordered the retrial of Hosni Mubarak for the killing of protesters in last year's uprising.
 
Mohammed Morsi also decreed immunity for the Islamist-dominated panel drafting a new constitution from any possible court decisions to dissolve it, a threat that had been hanging over the controversial assembly.

Liberal and Christian members withdrew from the assembly during the past week to protest what they say is the hijacking of the process by Morsi's allies, who they saw are trying to push through a document that will have an Islamist slant marginalizing women and minority Christians and infringing on personal liberties.

Several courts have been looking into cases demanding the dissolution of the panel reports the Associated Press.

The Egyptian leader also decreed that all decisions he has made since taking office in June are not subject to appeal in court or by any other authority. He also barred any court from dissolving the Islamist-led upper house of parliament, a largely toothless body that has also faced court cases.

The moves effectively remove any oversight on Morsi, the longtime Muslim Brotherhood figure who became Egypt's first freely elected president last summer after the Feb. 11, 2011 fall of autocrat Hosni Mubarak.
 
They come as Morsi is riding high on lavish praise from President Barack Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton for mediating an end to eight days of fighting between Israel and Gaza's Hamas rulers.

"Morsi today usurped all state powers & appointed himself Egypt's new pharaoh," pro-reform leader Mohamed ElBaradei wrote on his Twitter account. "A major blow to the revolution that could have dire consequences."


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