Tomorrow we mark the 25th anniversary of the start of Mubarak’s disastrous rule.
BBC: Mubarak’s quarter of a century
Also, tomorrow the Muslim Brothers will be celebtrating the 100th anniversary of the birth of the group’s founder, Sheikh Hassan el-Banna.
[Undated photo of Hassan el-Banna, (second row, third from the left) with MB members and boyscouts. Courtsey of jounralist Ali Zalat]
…skeptical of the BBC coverage…
How accurate is thier repeated claim that Mubarak is generally accepted/endorsed by the Egyptian public?
Quoted from article: “There is little doubt that Mr Mubarak probably does enjoy huge support in the Egyptian street.”-BBC
It’s a load of crap.
Mubarak’s base of support, to cut a long story short, is the army’s top brass, the security services, big business, and a bunch of brown-nosed bureaucrats.
You know among “ordinary” people — i.e. people who are not rich or members of the intelligentsia — I haven’t met an overwhelming majority of anti-Mubarak people. Most people don’t care that much, especially since there is no widely accepted alternative to Mubarak. If Amr Moussa, say, was running for president perhaps they’d dislike Mubarak more. But with only Mubarak on the scene, my personal unscientific impression is that most people don’t even think about not having Mubarak around. And Mubarak has succeeded in getting most people to blame the government and cabinet rather than him for economic problems.
All of the Muslim countries have puppet leaders, absolutely non-representative….. grown — nourushed and planted to throne to run the business…. not for their nations…. but for the global pirates…right from Pakistan to any end of a mulsim country …..and egypt has an army which is meant only for this purpose…the army is not there to fight for any national interests…it is there to fight for the interests of global pirates….but the air is changing…the muslim masses are getiing awareness…and the time is very near when these puppets Mubaraks and many more will not find a place for their grave even…..