The Caliphated Egypt and Crucifixions, new revolution, death to freedom of the Press and more

Who would have thought that Egypt under the Muslim Brotherhood's rule would not be like Heaven on Earth?

Crucifixions re-introduced?
...A Sky News Arabic correspondent in Cairo confirmed that protestors belonging to the Muslim Brotherhood crucified those opposing Egyptian President Muhammad Morsi naked on trees in front of the presidential palace while abusing others. Likewise, Muslim Brotherhood supporters locked the doors of the media production facilities of 6-October [a major media region in Cairo], where they proceeded to attack several popular journalists....

Freedom of the Press .... dead and buried ?
...Muslim Brotherhood against journalists and judges   who criticize Morsi. TV host Tawfiq Okasha is accused of insulting Islam after he broadcast the ritual execution of an apostate. President Morsi wants him banned from all TV channels. The Muslim Brotherhood wants to eliminate all anti-Islamist judges and control the Constitutional Court.Cairo (AsiaNews/Agencies) - Fearing a drop in popular support, Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood is trying to silence its critics. In the past few months, journalist Tawfiq Okasha (pictured) has been one of the loudest voices speaking out against the Brotherhood and President Mohammed al-Morsi. As a result, he has been accused of defaming the president and portraying Islam in a bad light, opening him up to attacks.
Okasha is a well-known TV presenter and owner of a satellite channel, Al Fara'een. He has always been a staunch critic of the Muslim Brotherhood and Salafists. In the past, he even showed a young man having his throat cut in a ritual execution for apostasy......

Reshuffling of existing Human Rights council  (of course, now that it has to align itself with Shariah madness)
A reshuffle is expected at Egypt’s National Council for Human Rights (NCHR), state news agency MENA said Tuesday.

The move comes amidst widespread changes at state institutions since the election of President Mohamed Morsi.
The Shura Council (parliament’s upper house) will undertake the reshuffle, which is the second at the body since Hosni Mubarak’s ouster in February 2011, according to MENA.
The Shura Council recently appointed new editors-in-chief at the country’s state-owned newspapers.
The Administrative Court is set rule on the constitutionality of the Shura Council on 4 September and could dissolve the body just as the People’s Assembly (parliament’s lower house) was in mid-June.

Sinister happenings in Sinai Peninsula.  Is Israel suicidal?  Why give "okay" for a deluge of  heavy weaponry into Sinai?
Egypt is preparing to use aircraft and tanks   in Sinai for the first time since the 1973 war with Israel in its offensive against militants in the border area, security sources said on Monday.
The plans to step up the operation were being finalised by Egypt's newly appointed Defence Minister General Abdel Fattah al-Sisi as he made his first visit to Sinai on Monday following the killing of 16 border guards on 5 August.....

..."Sisi will supervise the putting together of final plans to strike terrorist elements using aircraft and mobile rocket launchers for the first time since the beginning of the operation," an Egyptian security source said....

....What is happening these days has no logical basis whatsoever but Okasha has been saying what many Egyptians think. This has caused a moral, media and political crisis. After the considerable rapprochement between President Morsi and the dismissed Hamas government, the opening of the border crossings, and the announcement of supplying Gaza with electricity and water (which have been particularly scarce this summer), it was still not possible to blame the Rafah crossing massacre on anyone other than elements from Gaza. Even those who have ridiculed Okasha’s insistence on making charges without producing evidence for official court proceedings have found themselves agreeing with him on the Rafah massacre.......

2nd revolution in the making?
The Facebook page of the group calling for "a second revolution on 24 August to dissolve the Muslim Brotherhood and its party" warned of violence against demonstrators by Muslim Brotherhood members on Monday, asking President Morsy to take a clear stance on the right for citizens to demonstrate non-violently.

The statement comes after a controversial fatwa issued by radical Qatar-based cleric Wagdy Ghoneim and statements from the Azhar cleric Sheikh Hashem Islam , both condoning the killing of anti-Brotherhood protesters.
Ghoneim, who is currently residing in Qatar, was sentenced in absentia in January 2011 by the State Security Emergency Court to five years in prison, along with four others, on charges of money laundering and financing the Muslim Brotherhood, then an outlawed organization. He was recently pardoned by Morsy, a former leader of the Brotherhood............

...It's spokesperson, Tamer al-Qady,   added, however, that it is unacceptable to issue a religious edict ordering those protesters to be killed, referring to a recent statement by Al-Azhar official Sheikh Hashem Islam, who was quoted by press reports as urging citizens to fight against the 24 August demonstrators to the death.
The statement also stressed the right to peaceful protest, while denouncing calls to burn Brotherhood offices.
The Coalition of Coptic Egypt has announced that it will participate in the protest. In a statement Wednesday, the groups said that it will protest to stress the goals of the revolution and stress the secular identity of the state, rather than to demand Morsy’s downfall. It added that it would also oppose the domination of state institutions by one political ideology.....

Tribal leaders targeted by terrorists in the Sinai  Peninsula (They are copying Taliban tactics. In Afghanistan, the Taliban did away with the moderate tribal leaders and let live only those who were as blood thirsty as themselves.)
Militants killed Egyptian tribal leader  Khalaf al-Menahy and his son Aug. 13 as the two were returning from a conference in east Sinai organized and attended by tribal leaders to denounce militancy, according to Sinai security forces. The senior al-Menahy was a prominent proponent of bolstering the Sinai Peninsula's representation in Egypt's parliament and of improving security in the region.
He also was a prominent sheikh in the Sawarka tribe, said to be the largest in Sinai. Following his burial Aug. 13, the tribe vowed to seek vengeance.
This is the first reported case of militants attacking tribal leaders in Sinai. It comes soon after an attack on Egyptian security forces Aug. 5 and an attack on military checkpoints in northern Sinai on Aug. 8.

Attacks on burkha-less women intensified, while police look on and laugh 

Along Cairo’s downtown Nile River promenade   two police officers stand off to one side, point and begin to laugh. What they are pointing at is not funny: two women are in the throngs of being harassed, groped and assaulted by at least four people, Bikyamasr.com witnessed on Monday afternoon.
The girls were screaming and attempting to push away the boys, somewhere in their late teens, from the area as they implored for them to stop.
The police officers did nothing, only watched and laughed as the girls were being attacked......

Extremist voices becoming louder and more dangerous.
Police in Egypt on Wednesday arrested a man who tossed four homemade nail bombs into the German embassy grounds and attacked the entrance with a hammer but injured nobody and caused no serious damage, the embassy and security sources said.
The man acted out of anger after reading an Egyptian newspaper report on Friday which described a protest by German right-wing activists who had paraded caricatures of the Prophet Mohammad in front of a German mosque, they said.....