Amidst Violence, Egypt May Ban Muslim Brotherhood

Authorities storm Islamist-held mosque

CAIRO, Egypt — Witnesses say that Egyptian security forces have stormed a Cairo mosque after firing tear gas at hundreds of Islamist supporters of the country's ousted president barricaded inside.

Local journalist Shaimaa Awad told The Associated Press on Saturday that security forces rounded up protesters inside al-Fatah mosque, located in Cairo's central Ramses Square.

The sound of gunfire could be heard in the background.

Comments

[Mike M.]

Good. The Muslim Brotherhood should be treated like the Thugees were in India.

[Sevo]

They may well be thugs, but banning them is just pushing them underground.
It will not accomplish anything other than that.

[Jon Lester]

Just as they were in the Mubarak days, only now they'll be much angrier.

[Faceless Commenter]

It's going to be whack-a-mole for a long time, but that Muslim Brotherhood needs to be fought by all means possible. As retro as it sounds, they're the commies of the Arab world -- the Stalin/Mao/Castro kind.

Bein's it's the Arab world, the MB were never going to rule bloodlessly, and they're not going to go bloodlessly. None of this sanctions or containment or detente gentlemanly stuff is going to shut them down. Let the Arabs solve this problem the Arab way.

[Jon Lester]

There you go; create a crisis, and use it to justify an undemocratic reform.