Tuesday, October 08, 2013

My goodness, this is bravery of a high order: Today in Egypt hundreds of people, including Muslim Brotherhood supporters, demonstrated at Cairo University chanting "Down with the military government." This comes as the death toll from the weekend's violence is now at 57 (over 300 wounded). "We are standing here against the coup," said one 19-year old student, the coup that President Obama says doesn't exist. "I'm against Morsi but I'm not for people killing others and I'm not for the military government we have now," said another. Over 1,000 people have been killed by the military since the coup, President Morsi hasn't been seen or heard from since his arrest at the start, the Brotherhood has been outlawed (again) and today the junta closed a Brotherhood non-governmental office (NGO).