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Islamist protest shuts down Egypt’s top court
Protests by Islamists allied to President Mohamed Mursi forced Egypt’s highest court to adjourn its work indefinitely on Sunday, intensifying a conflict between some of the country’s top judges and the head of state.
The Supreme Constitutional Court said it would not convene until its judges could operate without “psychological and material pressure”, saying protesters had stopped the judges from reaching the building.
Several hundred Mursi supporters had protested outside the court through the night ahead of a session expected to examine the legality of parliament’s upper house and the assembly that drafted a new constitution, both of them Islamist-controlled.
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who needs courts? They’ve got Morsi, Allah, and the brutha-hoods….there’s plenty of justice wrapped up in all that.
ted c on December 2, 2012 at 6:02 PM
Blocking the way so people can’t get through to do their jobs, huh, sounds like Egyptian islamists are taking cues from American unions. Or is it the other way around.
Bishop on December 2, 2012 at 6:02 PM
Obama’s Arab ‘Spring’ in full bloom.
He can and he does fool most all the world, all of the time.
Schadenfreude on December 2, 2012 at 6:14 PM
Are courts even needed in a country governed by Sharia Law … isn’t the mere accusation of wrong-doing sufficient for stoning someone to death?
They could likely learn a thing or two from the techniques employed for character assassination by our LSM.
ShainS on December 2, 2012 at 6:27 PM
Damn. Why didn’t America try this when Chief Just-Us Benedict “Egomania” Roberts was choosing his weasel words to screw the Constitution into oblivion?
viking01 on December 2, 2012 at 6:31 PM
Obama is more concerned about his putt than the disintegration of a nation whose “democratic” chaos he encouraged.
World-historical asshat.
profitsbeard on December 2, 2012 at 6:31 PM
Women have no rights and slavery is still legal in Egypt.
Yet, NO word against Morsi from Obama, Hillary, S. Rice and the entire gaggle of dictator lovers.
Schadenfreude on December 2, 2012 at 6:31 PM
Obama- Osama on steroids.
Fulfilling Bin Laden’s goals better than the terrorist ever could.
profitsbeard on December 2, 2012 at 6:35 PM