Egpytian Justice

[Philippus Flavius Homovallumus]

Six of one, half a dozen of the other - have the regime that executes you for trying whisky, or the one that executes you for speaking ill of the government.

What you have here is a perverse reflection of a two-party system like the US, the majority don't want either - but they end up supporting one because they fear the other.

[Greyblades]

The fascistic millitary junta is killing off the hardline borderline insane reigious fundies. Frankly, I am so jaded with the entire affair I can only see it as a net positive that the two are more focussed on killing eachother than anyone I might actually sympathise with.

[Fragony]

Bordeline insane religious nutjob supporters, quite the difference. Killing someone for rioting, good show there. The brotherhood is scum but their supporters aren't necesarily scum. All these sentences should be revoked unless there is a REALLY good reason, this is madness.

[HoreTore]

The fascistic millitary junta is killing off the hardline borderline insane reigious fundies. Frankly, I am so jaded with the entire affair I can only see it as a net positive that the two are more focussed on killing eachother than anyone I might actually sympathise with.

The people in question here can't be deemed "hardline religious figures", they're ordinary people. They are going after the leaders as well, but these guys aren't leaders.

My prediction is that the common supporters will be terrorized and then released, while they either whack or keep the leadrs.

[Greyblades]

My prediction is that the common supporters will be terrorized and then released, while they either whack or keep the leadrs.

I hope that's it, with the current climate in the middle east I half expect massacring them all would just restart the civil war.

[HoreTore]

I hope that's it, with the current climate in the middle east I half expect massacring them all would just restart the civil war.

Executing over a thousands commoners sounds extremely brutal and unlikely.

Then again, unlikely things do happen... Al-Sisi may well be a butcher.

If he is a butcher, he will have to slaughter many more than just a thousand. As Machiavelli said, you either need to appease or destroy. A thousand deaths won't destroy, and it definitely won't appease.

[Fragony]

Executing over a thousands commoners sounds extremely brutal and unlikely.

Then again, unlikely things do happen... Al-Sisi may well be a butcher.

If he is a butcher, he will have to slaughter many more than just a thousand. As Machiavelli said, you either need to appease or destroy. A thousand deaths won't destroy, and it definitely won't appease.

I don't expect these executions will be carried out either, but it's obviously extreme intimidation. They have a reason to be angry really, Morsi was democratically elected. The army also has a point as Morsi wanted to build it of, army doesn't like that , it's almost a holy duty for them

[Rhyfelwyr]

Just in case there was any doubt that these were the actions of a tyrannical military junta, it should be noted that they have also banned the secular pro-democracy group that triggered the initial protests against Mubarak. From the BBC:

Also on Monday, a court banned a youth group that helped ignite the uprising that toppled Hosni Mubarak in 2011.

The decision passed in Cairo to outlaw the April 6 pro-democracy movement was based on a complaint that accused the group of "tarnishing the image" of Egypt and colluding with foreign parties.

Ahmed Maher, the group's leader, was sentenced to three years in prison in December for violating a law that bans all but police-sanctioned protests.

I remember very well when Morsi was toppled how people made excuses for the coup and said it was about defending secularism and human rights. Turns out it was really just about putting another junta in power and un-doing the revolution.