Wednesday, July 3, 2013
Morsi role at Syria rally seen as tipping point for Egypt army
Morsi himself called for foreign intervention in Syria against Assad,
leading to a veiled rebuke from the army, which issued a bland but
sharp-edged statement the next day stressing that its only role was
guarding Egypt's borders
![Morsi Morsi](https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/blogger_img_proxy/AEn0k_szlhr2WYZMewZcGQLptlZX4sklDd0hUNbSK80c2ofQ5kFKmiR7qo_LRgQP9VfIZ3k0ZtqW4uxaj68w2RKrsrSZm6brCZhLDa5nk3SF1I38OYgqq05rX7QV-NkT3a3o2l_xo4iTguwZtPxkCnbiQsNwq70=s0-d)
Army concern about the way President Mohamed Morsi was governing Egypt
reached tipping point when the head of state attended a rally packed
with hardline fellow Islamists calling for holy war in Syria, military
sources said.
At the June 15 rally, Sunni Muslim clerics used the word "infidels" to
denounce both the Shi'ites fighting to protect Syrian President Bashar
al-Assad and the non-Islamists that oppose Morsi at home.
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