Egyptian Courts sentence former president Morsi and over 100 others to death - Polidicks

[quote]An Egyptian court has pronounced death sentences on ousted president Mohammed Morsi and more than 100 other people over a mass prison break in 2011. Morsi is already serving a 20-year prison term for ordering the arrest and torture of protesters while in power. Egypt's religious authorities will now have to give their opinion before the sentence can be carried out. Morsi's supporters from his Muslim Brotherhood movement have described the charges against him as "farcical". He was deposed by the military in July 2013 following mass street protests against his rule. Since then, the authorities have banned the Muslim Brotherhood and arrested thousands of his supporters[/quote] [url]http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-32763215[/url]

Morsi was a prick, but I question the point of killing him now he's in prison. Seems like all it will do is rile up the Muslim Brotherhood even more- although that's fantastic for the Egyptian army to have some more power wanks.

Remember when everyone thought this coup against Morsi was a great idea? Now hundreds more Egyptians are dead and we have Mubarak 2.0. What kind of crazy precedent is this? A bad postrevolutionary government is the norm, but going back to the same old oppression is an awful choice. [editline]16th May 2015[/editline] The only reason other countries don't care about Egyptian democracy is because they now have another leader to sell arms to who supports Israel. [editline]16th May 2015[/editline] [url]http://mondediplo.com/openpage/clueless-in-cairo[/url] This article explains the entire story behind the counterrevolution that just climaxed with today's Death sentence for Morsi.

[QUOTE=Jamsponge;47736893]Morsi was a prick, but I question the point of killing him now he's in prison. Seems like all it will do is rile up the Muslim Brotherhood even more- although that's fantastic for the Egyptian army to have some more power wanks.[/QUOTE] Morsi is already being treated as a martyr so not killing him isn't going help Egypt's military all that much. Wiping out the [I]entire[/I] Muslim Brotherhood, however, will drive more Egyptian islamists away from democracy and towards violence.

[QUOTE=Aredbomb;47737756]Morsi is already being treated as a martyr so not killing him isn't going help Egypt's military all that much. Wiping out the [I]entire[/I] Muslim Brotherhood, however, will drive more Egyptian islamists away from democracy and towards violence.[/QUOTE] Implying that any islamists want any democracy. One of the fundamental belief of an islamist is that Islam is the only credible source of power, making islamists the only credible source of power. There is no such thing as will for democracy in the eyes of islamists, they literally believe that power doesn't need to be shared. Obviously talking about islamists, not all muslims.

You know what's less democratic than the Muslim Brotherhood? The military junta currently in power. The same one that gave Mubarak power. Morsi was more likely to give up power after losing an election than Sisi. Now he's getting killed on trumped up charges because of a fake petition signed by an impossible amount of people.