How is This Revolution NO.2 Affecting The Gay Community in Egypt?

 HRC: After millions of Egyptians took to the streets in recent days, Egypt’s military ousted President Mohammed Morsi and the Muslim Brotherhood party from power, calling for early elections and suspending the constitution. 

On Sunday, the military issued Morsy an ultimatum: he had 48 hours to “address the people’s legitimate demands” of early presidential elections. Morsy rejected this, saying he would stay on as Egypt’s elected president, although he did offer dialogue with the opposition and an amendment of the constitution.

Army chief General Abdel Fattah el-Sissi, appointed by Morsy, announced the military takeover.

The big question for us gays is how is the gay community doing in all of all of this. Gays were there forefront of the demostrations that got Mubarak ousted. The Brotherhood, deadly enemies of gays but good liers with promises of being even handed and fairness and until they got a Muslim constitution and a Muslim government. There is nothing wrong with Islam as long as they are not running after your head to chop it down.  Just because you don’t fit the interpretation of an old book. But we americans know about that and have been fighting such histeria in which human beings and human values are les that the interpretation of a series of books written centuries ago and now called the Bible or the Koran and others.

 Gay Egyptians will be celebrating Morsi’s fall tonight – most will agree that his presidency was a disaster for Egypt and that he only has himself to blame for his unpopularity – but starting tomorrow hopefully there will be close scrutiny of the transitional process – While it might be tempting for example to applaud the closure of Islamist TV stations, this move will drive the Muslim Brotherhood underground, infuriate what is now the Islamist opposition and eventually either enhance their popularity or drive the movement towards supporting violent struggle. Hopefully this restriction on media freedom will only be temporary and hopefully the army won’t make the same mistakes as during the last period of transition.

On the positive side Morsi’s fall gives new hope that a constitution representing all Egyptians can be created and that the revolution of 2011 can now be built on.

11.59PM And now comes news that Al Jazeera’s offices have been raided by security forces and staff arrested. Why ? This really is a surprise. Their coverage of recent events appeared to be reasonably balanced. They had at least one reporter who seemed occasionally to be sympathetic to the Brotherhood but they had others who seemed to be very enthusiastic in covering the anti-Morsi protests. I’m sure other people will find this worrying too.

{{Adam}} 

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