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Generational Dynamics Web Log for 1-Jul-2013
1-Jul-13 World View -- Millions fill Egypt's streets with mostly peaceful protests

Web Log - July, 2013

1-Jul-13 World View -- Millions fill Egypt's streets with mostly peaceful protests

Burma Buddhists protest Time's portrayal of 'Buddhist Terror'

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Millions fill Egypt's streets with mostly peaceful protests
Pakistan terrorists continue Shia Hazara extermination plan
Pakistan terrorists kill dozens in Peshawar
Burma Buddhists protest Time's portrayal of 'Buddhist Terror'

Millions fill Egypt's streets with mostly peaceful protests

Oceans of anti-government protesters fill Tahrir Square in Cairo (BBC)

Oceans of anti-government protesters fill Tahrir Square in Cairo (BBC)

In towns and cities across Egypt, millions of people filled the streets in competing protests by against and for president Mohamed Morsi, with hundreds of thousands of people in Cairo alone. The protests were almost entirely peaceful, but with isolated incidents of violence that killed two people in separate incidents in Cairo suburbs.

Anti-Morsi protesters complained Morsi had allowed the economy to collapse, and that he had governed for the benefit of the Muslim Brotherhood, and not for all the people of Egypt. They claim to have 22 million signatures on petitions demanding that he step down.

Pro-Morsi protesters responded that Morsi is the first legitimately elected president of Egypt, and that he should be allowed to finish his 4-year term. Most pro-Morsi supporters also support a version of Sharia law that's much stricter than the versions supported by the liberals and secularists.

This was the biggest protest in the history of Egypt. Everyone is breathing a sign of relief that there was so little violence, but with millions of people on the streets, there's the feeling that Egypt is like a coiled spring, ready to snap. Officials are hoping that things will remain relatively peaceful until Ramadan begins on Monday, July 8, at which time many people expect the demonstrations to peter out. Al-Ahram (Cairo) and BBC

Pakistan terrorists continue Shia Hazara extermination plan

The al-Qaeda linked Sunni Muslim terror group Lashkar-e-Jhangvi (LeJ), have vowed that "Our mission [in Pakistan] is the abolition of this impure sect and people, the Shias and the Shia Hazaras, from every city, every village, every nook and corner of Pakistan," and on Sunday they continued to pursue that mission. LeJ claimed responsibility for a suicide bomber attack in a Shia Hazara neighborhood of Quetta that killed at 28 people and wounded dozens more. This is just the latest in a series of gun and bomb attacks by LeJ on Hazara communities in and around Quetta in southwestern Pakistan that have killed hundreds of people this year alone. LeJ is an offshoot of the Pakistani Taliban (Tehrik-e-Taliban or TTP). Although sectarian violence is hardly new in Pakistan, Sunni vs Shia sectarian violence has sharply increased in recent months from Africa to India, as a result of the conflict in Syria, which itself is turning into a proxy war between Sunnis and Shias. The News (Pakistan) and Reuters

Pakistan terrorists kill dozens in Peshawar

Also on Sunday, a remote control bomb killed at least 17 people in a busy marketplace in Peshawar, in northwest Pakistan, injuring dozens more, resulting in almost 50 deaths between the two terrorist attacks. No one has yet claimed responsibility for the Peshawar attack, but it's assumed to be the work of Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP - the Pakistan Taliban), who have been conducted many terrorist attacks in the northwest and in Pakistan's tribal region. Pakistan's new prime minister, Nawaz Sharif, made a campaign promise to negotiate a peace with TTP, but not surprisingly it seems that promise won't be fulfilled. On Sunday, TTP were apparently targeting a convoy of a government paramilitary force, but the convoy escaped the bomb and the marketplace bore the brunt. TTP has promised to stop killing civilians with terrorist attacks, but apparently that promise won't be kept either. Express Tribune (Pakistan) and Dawn (Pakistan)

Burma Buddhists protest Time's portrayal of 'Buddhist Terror'

Time Magazine July 1 cover portraying Buddhist monk Ashin Wirathu as 'The Face of Buddhist Terror'

Time Magazine July 1 cover portraying Buddhist monk Ashin Wirathu as 'The Face of Buddhist Terror'

More than 1,000 people, including about 100 Buddhist monks, rallied on Sunday to support a decision by the Myanmar/Burma government to ban sale or distribution of the July 1 edition of TIME magazine. The magazine's cover story was a reaction to April's mob attack on Muslims in Burma (Myanmar) by thousands of Buddhists, including many Buddhist monks, led by Buddhist monk Ashin Wirathu, who calls himself the "Buddhist Osama bin Laden." (See "5-Apr-13 World View -- Meiktila, Burma, violence has echoes of Kristallnacht")

The magazine's cover has a photo of Wirathu as "The Face of Buddhist Terror." Burma's government has banned the magazine saying that it might trigger new violence. Sunday's protesters called for legal action against the magazine and its editorial team and carried placards saying, "We support monk Wirathu who is just trying to protect our religion." However, other Burmese claim that only a small minority took part in the Muslim genocide, and most Burmese oppose it. Kyodo and The Diplomat

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