I’ve been receiving negative feedback from people about my post protesting the Egyptian military crackdown on Muslim Brotherhood (MB) partisans in Cairo. I am not promoting or defending the political views of the MB & wrote several posts in the past several months criticizing those views. What I am protesting is the military’s crackdown which looks very much like a massacre. I oppose it because I oppose military rule & support the historic & monumental movement for democracy in Egypt.
The relationship of forces between the MB & the democratic movement is now distinctly to the disadvantage of the MB. If the democratic movement is under assault from the MB it should defend itself--& its activists proved more than capable of doing so over the past few years in repeated conflicts with military tanks, tear gas, & truncheons--& in street conflicts with the MB for the past many months. The military is not entering the fray on the side of democracy but to establish military control of the streets & reverse the democratic thrust of 14 million people.
I usually avoid posting gruesome photos because they can demoralize people. This is an exception. These bodies are described as MB partisans fired on by the military & cops as they staged a sit-in outside the Republican Guard building in Cairo where they believed Morsi & other arrested MB members were being held. This is how military juntas handle dissent. And it is criminal--no matter what we think of MB ideology.
(Photo by Wissam Nassar/AP)
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