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529 Muslims Sentenced To Death In ‘Largest Mass Death Sentence’ In Egypt’s History

in News, Videos / by Dom the Conservative / on March 24, 2014 at 3:23 pm /

An Egyptian court has sentenced 529 Muslims to death Monday on charges that include murder, violence, and damaging public property, in the largest mass death sentence handed out in Egypt’s modern history.
The more than 500 Islamists have been found guilty of belonging to Egypt’s outlawed Muslim Brotherhood, a ruling that has recently come after the overthrow of Egypt’s first democratically elected president Mohamed Morsi, reports Al Jazeera.
“This is the quickest case and the number sentenced to death is the largest in the history of the judiciary,” said lawyer Nabil Abdel Salam, who defends some Brotherhood leaders, including Morsi.
A loud wailing from family members of the accused came after the sentence was publicly announced.
The Muslims Brotherhood has been driven underground after the removal of Morsi, prompting surviving members to call out for the “downfall of military rule” on their official website.
Militants from the group set fire to a nearby school in protest.
Still, On Tuesday, the Muslim Brotherhood’s Supreme Guide, Mohamed Badie, and 682 others will face trial on charges of incitement to kill.
Along with those found guilty of belonging to the Muslim Brotherhood, three Al Jazeera journalists will return to court on March 31 after being charged with spreading false news and participating with a terrorist organization.



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Obama Won’t Like it – Death Sentence for 529 Muslim Brotherhood Members

Posted on Monday, March 24th, 2014 at 7:35 pm.
by: Rick Wells



An Egyptian court issued its ruling Monday in the trial of 545 persons charged in a police station attack which killed a senior police officer. Those on trial were all believed to be supporters of the former President Mohammed Morsi. They were all believed to also be members of the Muslim Brotherhood.
Sixteen of those charged were acquitted in the mass trial, while 529 were sentenced to death.
The verdicts are subject to appeal and could be overturned. The speed of the trial and the severity of the rulings have some crying foul. Critics suggest this is evidence that the courts have become politicized during the crackdown on the Muslim Brotherhood.
Amnesty International said it was the largest single batch of simultaneous death sentences in recent years anywhere in the world.
In response to the accusations, the Egyptian Foreign Ministry made a statement affirming that the judiciary is “entirely independent and is not influenced in any way by the executive branch of government.”
A series of mass trials are being held by Egyptian authorities with groups ranging in size from dozens to hundreds of defendants. Monday’s results were the first death sentences.
The trial took place in two sessions. On Saturday, the judge shouted down requests from defense attorneys for more time. In the second session, on Monday, defense lawyers were not even allowed into the courtroom.
Defense attorney Khaled el-Koumi complained “We didn’t have the chance to say a word or to look at more than 3,000 pages of investigation to see what evidence they are talking about.
The charges in the case included murder, attempted murder, joining an outlaw group aiming at toppling down the regime and stealing government weapons. The attack on the police station occurred in August in the town of Matay, in Minya province. It was part of a riot which ensued after security forces overran
Following angry back and forth’s on Saturday between the judge and defense attorneys, many in attendance began chanting against the judge.
Yasser Zidan, a defense lawyer described what happened next. He said, “The judge stood up, looked at us, put his hands on his belly and announced: Monday is the verdict.”
On Tuesday, another mass trial against Morsi’s supporters is set to begin in a Minya courtroom. Those 683 defendants face similar charges. A noted Muslim Brotherhood leader, Mohammed Badie is among those on trial.
Maybe when the judge is finished in Egypt, he’d be willing to take a look at a particular regime in the United States.
Rick Wells is a conservative Constitutionalist author who contributes to conservative media outlets. “Like” him on Facebook and “Follow” him on Twitter.

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Egypt Just Handed Out The Largest Death Sentence in Its Modern History

By Alice Speri
March 24, 2014 | 2:10 pm

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The Egyptian government took its crackdown of the Muslim Brotherhood to a whole new level on Monday, when a court sentenced 529 members of the outlawed organization to death — the biggest mass sentence in the modern history of the country.
The defendants — supporters of ousted President Mohamed Morsi, who is also on trial separately — were charged with the murder of one police officer and trying to kill two others during violence that followed anti-coup demonstrations last August.
The condemned men were also accused of storming a police station, inciting murder, and damaging property during clashes that flared up in the southern province of Minya following the violent dispersal of two Muslim Brotherhood protests in Cairo, during which up to 1,000 Morsi supporters were killed.
“The sheer level of repression since the coup is really remarkable, it’s unprecedented and not just in the kind of way that people use that word: it actually is unprecedented,” Shadi Hamid, a fellow at the Brookings Institution's Saban Center, told VICE News. “First you have what Human Rights Watch called the worst mass killing in modern Egyptian history and now you have the worst mass death sentence in modern Egyptian history.”
Supporters of the accused denounced a trial that lasted less than three days, during which lawyers were reportedly denied access to the court.
“This is mass murder, legalized mass murder,” Hamza Sarawy, a spokesperson for the pro-Morsi Anti-Coup Alliance, told VICE News. “People were denied entry into court, lawyers weren’t allowed to enter. This is an insight into how the judiciary system in Egypt works. It’s a total mess.”
Sarawy called the death sentence “total revenge against the Muslim Brotherhood.” He added that his brother is among hundreds of other pro-Morsi supporters on trial in Egypt.
“Probably he will be one of those handed another death sentence, I don’t know,” Sarawy said. “This is total insecurity, brutality, torture. My brother might be in their place tomorrow or in a week.”
On Tuesday, Mohamed Badie, the Brotherhood's supreme guide, as well as 682 others, will also face trial on charges of incitement to murder.



Muslim Brotherhood Leader Mohamed Badie (right) and 47 other defendants stand behind bars during a trial of Brotherhood members on March 6.
Three journalists from the Qatar-based broadcaster Al Jazeera are also on trial in Egypt, where they have been held for 86 days after being accused of links to the Muslim Brotherhood and of spreading “false news.” On Monday, their trial was adjourned to the end of the month. “They might be sentenced to the same thing,” Sarawy added.
Families of the sentenced men protested the verdict outside the court, while students opposed to the military-backed regime staged a demonstration at Minia University, as shown in the video below.

Students at Minia University protested the death sentences.
More demonstrations by Muslim Brotherhood members and their supporters are also planned for the days ahead.
“We will have very peaceful yet very powerful demonstrations for the next couple of days because of this verdict,” Sarawy said, dismissing the possibility that such protests might turn violent. “Violent protest is not an option.”
Some critics have indicated that the latest sentence — and the general crackdown — might be part of an effort by the regime to radicalize the brotherhood’s support base, inciting a violent response in an attempt to gain legitimacy.
That hasn’t happened so far, yet there are indications that some among the Brotherhood’s members and supporters might be growing restless.
“The challenge that the brotherhood’s leadership has been having since the coup is trying to keep their members in line with the organization’s non-violent approach,” Hamid said. “With most of the top leadership in exile you have a new generation of Brotherhood members playing a leadership role.”
Some younger members and supporters have been pushing for the organization to “do more” — and their impatience will likely be tested by Monday’s extraordinary sentence.
“Their philosophy is ‘protest protest protest, and don’t back down.’ That kind of revolutionary posture does come into conflict with the Brotherhood’s political conservatism,” Hamid explained. “The Brotherhood has never been a revolutionary organization, that’s not how they see politics, that’s not how they see change.”

'The US and the EU have acquiesced to the coup and to the subsequent crackdown; everyone knows that.'

Muslim Brotherhood supporters were not the only ones to respond with horror to the massive death sentence. Many in Egypt also compared this three-day trial to the ones of ousted president Hosni Mubarak and his entourage.
“For the past three years Mubarak has been in jail and what happened to his responsibility for killing protesters and giving those orders? Did he get a verdict?” Yasmin Galal, who called herself a “former activist,” told VICE News. “It sucks to see Mubarak and [former interior minister] Habib el-Adly unable to be tried for killing protestors while 529 people are being tried for killing one policeman.”
“Goodbye rule of law or integrity of the courts,” Galal added.
The sentenced men have a right to appeal the verdict before April 28, and some believe that the punishments could be reduced.
“There's a question of whether these sentences will actually be implemented, it’s unlikely that Egypt is going to go ahead with that,” Hamid told VICE News, citing widespread international condemnation. But he quickly added that the international response to the regime’s tactics had been hardly satisfactory and that Secretary of State John Kerry’s recent suggestion that the US might consider resuming aid to “one of the most repressive regimes in the Middle East” was an “embarrassment.”
“The US and the EU have acquiesced to the coup and to the subsequent crackdown; everyone knows that, and the Egyptian regime certainly knows that,” he said. “If there was a real, serious, international uproar and the international community outlined consequences for the Egyptian government, then they would have to be concerned, but quite honestly there’s little sign of that happening.”

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Head Shot: Dutch Muslim who lived on welfare for 10 years poses with five heads

Posted by whtetiger on March 23, 2014 at 5:27am in General, Town Hall
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Dutch #ISIS fighter Khalid K. #Iraqi previously living in #Almere #Holland (Graphic) pic.twitter.com/Yge3Sj9No0
Last night I played Happy; today the enemy woke me up. Look at this photo. This best illustrates the battle we are fighting. The savages vs the civilized man. A culture that hails the exaltation of life versus an airless, anti-humane ideology that reveres death, carnage and barbarity. This is a Westernized Muslim from Iraq, now in Syria, but it is hardly exclusive to the Muslims in Iraq or Syria or Nigeria etc. Devout Muslims in Afghanistan (the Taliban) use these heads as soccer balls, and devout Muslims in Syria have massive human slaughterhouses. Devout Muslims in Nigeria are setting schools ablaze and slaughtering children, doctors, and teachers. Thailand, too. Obama says, “Respect it!” Geller says, “He’s nuts.”
Here is a pious Muslim who lived in the West for 10 years at the largesse of the taxpayer. And this is what emerged.
Abdurahman, apparently a Dutch jihadi from Almere, can be seen on You Tube with a bloody knife behind five cut-off heads. He is originally from Iraq, and has lived more than ten years in The Netherlands. He lived there from social security as he was found unfit to work and used drugs against claustrophobia and schizophrenia.
In 2012 an AFP picture emerged on which Abdurahman could be seen next to a dead body, while he was reading the Koran. Initially he joined the Jabhat-al Nusra movement in Syria, which is linked to Al Qaida. It seems that he has now moved to the even more barbarian ISIS jihadis. It is claimed that the heads were cut off from Al Nusra fighters.

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Obama Tells Egypt – Don’t Execute 529 Muslim Brotherhood Comrades


Posted on Tuesday, March 25th, 2014 at 8:24 pm.by: Rick Wells


We knew Obama wouldn’t sit idly by as the verdicts and the sentences of execution for 529 of his associates in Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood were announced without getting involved.

It took less than a day for his response to be issued in the form of a statement by the State Department.


The spokesperson denounced the speed of the trial and the resulting mass verdicts. Another similar proceeding involving an additional 683 Muslim Brotherhood defendants, which is getting underway is also being decried.

The spokesperson labeled the proceedings as representing “a flagrant disregard for basic standards of justice. The imposition of the death penalty for 529 defendants after a two day summary proceeding cannot be reconciled with Egypt’s obligations under international human rights law and the implementation of the sentences, as I said, would be unconscionable.

We cannot and should not credibly entertain the prospect that a two day trial resulting in the sentencing of 529 people to death could respect the fair trial safeguards guaranteed by international law.

We are making clear to the Egyptian government that these verdicts cannot be allowed to stand.”

The Egyptian government is trying to rid itself of the same plague which has infested and continues to infiltrate the leadership of government at all levels in America. While it may not be the way that we choose to eliminate this scourge, their methods may ultimately, be much more effective.

Their Muslim Brotherhood leaders are sitting in prison. Ours are conducting policy.

Rick Wells is a conservative author who believes an adherence the U.S. Constitution would solve many of today’s problems. “Like” him on Facebook and “Follow” him on Twitter.

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