Muslim Brotherhood offices torched in anti-Morsi riots

Mike L.

Thousands clash in the streets of Cairo over Egyptian president’s power grab in worst protests since 2011 revolution 

CAIRO (AP) — Thousands of opponents of Egypt’s Islamist president clashed with his supporters in cities across the country Friday, burning several offices of the Muslim Brotherhood, in the most violent and widespread protests since Mohammed Morsi came to power, sparked by his move to grant himself sweeping powers.

The violence reflected the increasingly dangerous polarization in Egypt over what course it will take nearly two years after the fall of autocrat Hosni Mubarak...

Clashes between his opponents and members of Morsi’s Muslim Brotherhood erupted in several cities. In the Mediterranean city of Alexandria, anti-Morsi crowds attacked Brotherhood backers coming out of a mosque, raining stones and firecrackers on them. The Brothers held up prayer rugs to protect themselves and the two sides pelted each other with stones and chunks of marble, leaving at least 15 injured. The protesters then stormed a nearby Brotherhood office.

In the capital Cairo, security forces pumped volleys of tear gas at thousands of pro-democracy protesters clashing with riot police on streets several blocks from Tahrir Square.

I find it just flabbergasting that even with actual democrats representing a significant proportion of the Egyptian population that Obama chose to support the radical Islamists.

We have to stand up for liberalism and oppose the sort-of hard core, racist conservatism that the Obama administration supports.