Human Wrongs Watch
Cairo, August 26 (Sharia Amin* for RIA Novosti) –Organizers had called it “a second revolution” to topple Muslim Brotherhood rule in Egypt, but last Friday’s so-called “million people rally” failed to draw the massive support the opposition activists had hoped for. It was also proclaimed “a failure” by revolutionary forces which had earlier announced their decision not to take part.
**Mohamed Morsi.png: Jonathan Rashad
Unlike last year’s popular uprising when Egyptians were unified by the common goal of bringing down the corrupt Mubarak regime, Friday’s rally reflected the deep polarisation of a country divided along ideological lines.
The lower than expected turnout signaled however – for the second time in as many months – that the new Islamist President’s following was by far larger than the opposition camp (the first time this had happened was during the run-off vote that pitted Morsi against former regime loyalist Ahmed Shafik).
The crowd protesting outside the presidential palace on Friday (which at its peak numbered no more than 3,000 demonstrators ) was a mix of former regime supporters, secularists and Christians – all opposed to what they describe as the “Brotherhoodization of Egypt.”
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