EGYPT CONSIDERS OUTLAWING MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD

◼ Egyptian authorities are considering disbanding the Muslim Brotherhood group, a government spokesman said Saturday, once again outlawing a group that held the pinnacle of government power just more than a month earlier. - AP

The fundamentalist group has been banned for most of its 80-year history and repeatedly subjected to crackdowns under Mubarak's rule. While sometimes tolerated and its leaders part of the political process, members regularly faced long bouts of imprisonment and arbitrary detentions.

◼ EGYPTIAN ACTIVIST: Obama Can Take His Foreign Aid And 'Go To Hell' - YASMINE SALEH, REUTERS via Business Insider

Mahmoud Badr, whose petition campaign helped to bring down Egypt's Islamist president, insists the bloodshed that has followed is a necessary price for saving the nation from the Muslim Brotherhood.
And he has a message for U.S. President Barack Obama, who has expressed alarm at the violent crackdown on the Brotherhood that has led to more than 700 deaths: "Don't lecture us on how to deal with the Brotherhood's terrorism."

As for aid money, he says, Obama can keep it - and "go to hell".

Badr, like many Egyptians who consider themselves liberals, has little patience with the human rights groups who call the repression a setback for democracy.

"What Egypt is passing through now is the price, a high price, of getting rid of the Brotherhood's fascist group before it takes over everything and ousts us all," Badr, 28, told Reuters in a telephone interview.

◼ Tamarod movement calls on Egyptian government to cancel Camp David peace treaty, stop accepting US aid - Jerusalem Post and Reuters

The campaign is in response to "unacceptable" US interference in Egyptian political affairs, after US President Barack Obama decided to cancel a joint drill with the Egyptian military in response to the outbreak of violence in the country earlier this week.

◼ Egypt government paints opponents as terrorists; US journalists targeted - McClatchy

◼ The West is deluded about the Middle East – just look at Iran - The Telegraph

◼ #ObamaMotherHasNoHair trends; Angry Egyptians lay on the smack talk - Twitchy