Volgens de Egyptische staatskrant al-Ahram hebben de veiligheidsdiensten de arrestatie van 300 leden van de Moslim Broederschap bevolen.

De Syrische president Bashar al-Assad meent dat de massale manifestaties tegen de afgezette Egyptische president Morsi het einde markeren van de politieke islam. Dat zegt hij in een interview met de Syrische krant As-Saoura, dat vandaag verschijnt.

"Waar dan ook in de wereld, wie religie voor een politiek doeleinde gebruikt of om enkelen ten opzichte van anderen te bevoordelen, is gedoemd te falen", aldus Assad.

Tussen het regime in Damascus en de Moslim Broederschap, de partij van Morsi, gaapt al enkele jaren een politieke kloof. Op het lidmaatschap van de broederschap staat in Syrië sinds de jaren 1980 zelfs de doodstraf. De Syrische tak van de Moslim Broederschap speelt momenteel ook een belangrijke rol in de Nationale Syrische Coalitie van de oppositie tegen Assad, erkend als de legitieme vertegenwoordiger van het Syrische volk door een honderdtal staten en organisaties.

Egypt’s army ‘ready to die’ to protect against ‘any terrorist, radical or fool’

The post on the official Facebook page of the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF), headed by armed forces chief General Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, said: “We swear to God that we will sacrifice even our blood for Egypt and its people, to defend them against any terrorist, radical or fool.”

Mursi is a ‘Zionist’ who shares security interests with Israel: Egyptian cleric (3 maart 2013)

Speaking to protesters in Cairo’s Tahrir Square, Sheikh Mohammed Abdullah Nasr, leader of the Front “Ozharyoun with civil state,” said U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry is coming to Egypt on March 2 to support “Mursi the Zionist.”

By Al Arabiya

An Islamic cleric who opposes the Muslim Brotherhood and supports a “civil state” system in the post-revolutionary Egypt described Friday Islamist President Mohammed Mursi as a “Zionist” who shares security interests with Israel.

Speaking to protesters in Cairo’s Tahrir Square, Sheikh Mohammed Abdullah Nasr, leader of the Front “Ozharyoun with civil state,” said U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry is coming to Egypt on March 2 to support “Mursi the Zionist.”

“They are all relatives, the Brotherhood and the Jews are one; Israel's security is part of the Brotherhood's security and the security of the Brotherhood is part of Israel's security,” Sheikh Nasr said in a video posted on the website of Adostor newspaper (www.dostor.org)

He described Kerry as a “Jew and the son of a Jew,” saying the American top diplomat would be received with mobs hurling eggs and tomatoes at him upon his arrival to Egypt.

“As for myself, I have a special gift for him and for anyone who supports the regime of the Brotherhood’s regime,” Sheikh Nasr said, before removing his shoe and raising it in front of the crowd.

Sheikh Nasr called for “continued struggle” until the establishment of a civil state in Egypt. “Europe and American and Brotherhoods are conspiring against the Egyptian Revolution to abort it because they know that if Egyptians take the right path of civilization they will create.