Washington Post – by Max Fisher
Huge numbers of Egyptians gathered in Cairo on Sunday to protest the government of President Mohamed Morsi, sworn in one year ago, as a smaller number of Morsi supporters gathered in a different part of town.
Read Abigail Hauslohner’s story to get a sense of the tension in Cairo, where protesters are hoping to topple Morsi’s year-old rule and many fear the demonstrations could devolve into violence. CNN’s Ben Wedeman, a veteran of the region, called Sunday’s anti-Morsi demonstration the largest public protest he’d ever seen in Egypt.
Photos of the protests drive home their vast size and scale, still remarkable even two-plus years after mass demonstrations led to the end of Hosni Mubarak’s reign.
Hundreds of thousands of Egyptians gather in Tahrir Square on Sunday for anti-Morsi demonstrations. (AP Photo/ Manu Brabo)
Opponents of Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi march on the Qasr el-Nil bridge leading to Cairo’s landmark Tahrir Square on Sunday. (KHALED DESOUKI/AFP/Getty Images)
(KHALED DESOUKI/AFP/Getty Images)
Egyptian women opposing Morsi wave their national flag and hold a placard reading in Arabic “we are tired of the renaissance (Morsi’s presidential campaign program) and we will not tire from standing.” (EPA/ANDRE PAIN)
Thousands of opponents of Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi pray Sunday during a protest calling for his ouster. (KHALED DESOUKI/AFP/Getty Images)
An anti-Morsi demonstration in front of the presidential palace Sunday. (EPA/KHALED ELFIQI)
Hundreds of thousands of Egyptian demonstrators gather outside the presidential palace in Cairo. (KHALED DESOUKI/AFP/Getty Images)
Tahrir Square (AP Photo/Amr Nabil)
The Washington Post will naturally call this a “massive demonstration”, but it’s really a revolution, and revolutions can be peaceful if enough of the population participates.
By simply refusing to be ruled by their government, they’ve shut down the country, and left their leaders with no one to rule over.
I know someone who lived through the Cuban revolution, and he described it as most people simply saying “F&%k this. I’m not doing it anymore.”
Yes, we must be ready to physically, and violently defeat whomever comes here looking for trouble, but educating the masses will make any and all battles a hell of a lot easier to win, and that’s why I always keep striving to wake up new people. (there are still many millions of them sleeping on the job of being Americans)
I’ll put it before you again, “why is the CIA/Evergreen Air spraying chemicals over a great portion of the World except the Middle East?” It is my thinking that the Evil Elitists want to take time back to the era of Moses & start over….Think about the World upheaval as it stands today! I will continue to fight for Liberty, Freedom & Truth
That’s what US needs. Just imagine if 15 million people or more will occupied white house. USA is still asleep, totally brainwashed dummy’s country.