What's happening? Morsi Rejects Army's 48-Hour Ultimatum – and only a strong Morsi can do that, can reject the powerful Egyptian army's 48-hours ultimatum, when he knows that ultimately if the crowds already passionate turn even more violent, then it's only the army that will be able to restore normal law and order or to quell the very, very adamant Egyptian opposition's absolute determination to press on with their demands for an early call for new elections – and - their almost unstoppable determination to win those elections – even by a narrow margin – and so take the whole nation back to square one again in the democracy merry- go-round, should the Muslim Brotherhood lose such elections in the coming next round and in turn take the losing half (about 48%) of the Egyptian nation's population to the main streets and squares of Cairo and Alexandria in mass protestations, exactly 365 days later, shouting,
" enough is enough!"
But sabr is a virtue, not only in al-Islam
The army can dissolve parliament, suspend the constitution, and call for new elections.
Again the army will tend to be seen as being on the side of "the bebble" as old Kaddafi used to call them - the bebble oh the bebble - and not merely on the side of the powerful Egyptian army's own economic interests and the kind of stability required to nurture those business interest. Isn't each and every Arab Spring nation a pro- democracy move-ment that each Arab nation under God, shall have a new birth of freedom -- and that government of the bebble, by the bebble, for the bebble shall not perish from the earth ?
These events are all taking place in Africa and it's all about the human condition in Egypt even if the human project there is being viewed with diminished interest by some of those who come from Africa South of the Sahara. Osageyfo Kwame Nkrumah's wife Lady Fathia after all was Egyptian and the marriage could be viewed as a bonding between North Africa and Africa South of the Sahara, one continent, even if most of the nations of North mostly belong to the Arab League.
These mass protests don't look too good. Considering that Morsi won the election by such a narrow margin and given the "winner takes all" democracy scenario, this means that when Egypt is polarised along its current ideological, religious and secular fault lines (mostly Egypt's Salafists versus verus Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood – not to mention Egypt's inevitably marginalised dhimmi Copts ) – it's more or less half of the country that is up and about demonstrating at Tahrir Square and everywhere else where they can gather together to show their utter dissatisfaction about the promises that have still not materialised within the first 365 days of Morsi's presidency. They may even appear to be in the majority and any big crowd is capable of giving that kind of impression of a country with a population of over eighty five million hungry people, hungry for a better life, not only in the Hereafter, after they die, but also down here on planet earth whilst they are still alive.
And thus the Arab Spring has entered into a new winter of discontent barely a year after big bad Mubarak's trial and tribulations have still not come to a final determination in the courts of Egyptian Law - even whilst the whole world is praying for Madiba, a saint, compared to some of the rogues that have been undemocratically lording it over their own people, like that Pharaoh of old who arose and knew not Joseph lorded it over his Jewish slaves.
How reasonable is it to expect that the major expectations about the economy, youth unemployment, the price of bread etc. would have been fulfilled within a year? Here is an analysis, five days before the army showed its hand. And more about what is forecast as Egypt's waning influence in regional affairs, although I beg to disagree –not only does al-Azhar continue to be the bastion of orthodox Sunni theology and therefore also of Islamic ideology – since theology and political ideology are inseparably intertwined – and Cairo University too from where Brother Obama said "Asalaam alaikum " still the headquarters of Egyptian philosophy, but even if a "A house divided against itself cannot stand" Egypt is still strong and although Brother Obama threatens with cutting financial aid to Egypt if Egypt does not abide by democratic principles during this critical time of crisis, Brother Obama, Brother Netanyahu and the not so Wild West, should only have cause to worry when eventually e.g. China unconstrained like the West, feel that they are at liberty to also start doing business with the Arab nations, business such as supplying them with F16s, 18s, 19s and F 21s… that should be more than enough cause for alarm about the balance of gun-power and gunpowder in that region.
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