That is just how the Muslim Brotherhood rolls...
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| In reprisal to the Egyptian Army storming and burning their protest camp in Cairo, Muslim Brotherhood/Morsi supporters burned three Coptic Christian Churches... |
This surprises us, how?
ReplyDeleteThey've been a terrorist organization since before WWII.
The muslim nazihood is basically the modern day nazi party. Muslims have been aligned with nazi's since day one and the muslim nazihood has been at the forefront of that takeover ever since the 3rd reich bit it.
DeleteI am not sure there is massive starvation in Egypt...yet. I have not heard that. There is considerable economic hardship and that may be resulting in people missing meals and eating less. Things are definitely bad. If you have any links on actual starvation please let me know. As is the case anywhere such unrest happens, it is the most vulnerable members of society who suffer the most. I know that Egypt absolutely cannot feed its population without food imports.
ReplyDeleteEvi,
ReplyDeleteYou make a good point. Most of the stories about starvation date back to 2010/2011 leading to the ouster of Mubarak. I see continuing mention in stories as recent as July 4th: Starvation is the unstated subject of this week’s military coup. For the past several months, the bottom half of Egypt’s population has had little to eat besides government-subsidized bread, and now the bread supply is threatened by a shortage of imported wheat. Despite $8 billion of aid from Qatar and smidgens from Libya, Turkey, and others, Egypt is struggling to meet a financing gap of perhaps $20 billion a year, made worse by the collapse of its major cash earner — the tourist industry. Malnutrition is epidemic in the form of extreme protein deficiency in a country where 40% of the adult population is already “stunted” by poor diet, according to the World Food Program. It is not that hard to get 14 million people into the streets if there is nothing to eat at home.
Again, those problems are a bit long term, and I can blame general political corruption from any given side, rather than just the Muslim Brotherhood and Morsi. But I doubt Morsi made it priority beyond words and promises.
On an aside, it would be interesting to know the effects "biofuel" corn subsidies play into this. The general notion of biofuel is to end dependency on Middle East oil, which would hurt Egypt's economy. But corn based ethanol diverts food (rather crop fields that would nominally be used for food) to making oil. So this lowers Egypt's incoming revenue and raises the price of a much needed commodity. One could say it is a pretty devious plan to get back on people American's supposedly hate in the Middle East. However, this is happening in a government run by liberals, who claim not to hate anyone, particularly Muslims. And Egypt has been a rather friendly country to the US for a few decades now. Hopefully when things settle down, these policies will not turn the Egyptian people against the US.