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Gulf Arabs welcome ouster of Egypt’s president
Gulf Arab states welcomed the Egyptian army’s ouster of Islamist President Mohamed Mursi on Wednesday following days of unrest in a country once seen by Gulf Arabs as an instrumental ally against rival power Iran.
The rise of Mursi’s Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt following the ouster of President Hosni Mubarak in 2011 has unsettled most Gulf Arab states, including the UAE, which feared it would embolden Islamists at home.
Qatar was alone among Gulf Arab states in celebrating the 2011 Arab Spring revolt that toppled Mubarak, a foe of Iran and a longtime ally of the hereditary states that sit on nearly a quarter of the world’s oil reserves.
Saudi state news agency SPA said King Abdullah sent a message of congratulations to the head of the Egyptian Constitutional Court, Adli Mansour, who had been appointed as interim head of state.
“In the name of the people of Saudi Arabia and on my behalf, we congratulate your leadership of Egypt in this critical period of its history. We pray for God to help you bear the responsibility laid upon you to achieve the ambitions of our brotherly people of Egypt,” the message said.
The statement also praised the Egyptian armed forces for leading Egypt out of what it said was a “tunnel that only God knows its dimensions and repercussions”.
The United Arab Emirates also welcomed the change in Egypt, according to state news agency WAM, and praised the Egyptian armed forces.
“His Highness Abdullah bin Zayed al-Nahayan, the Foreign Minister of the UAE, expressed his full confidence that the great people of Egypt are able to cross these difficult moments that Egypt is going through,” WAM said in a statement.
“Sheikh Abdullah said that the great Egyptian army was able to prove again that they are the fence of Egypt and that they are the protector and strong shield that guarantee Egypt will remain a state of institutions and law,” it added.
There was no word from Qatar, the only Gulf Arab country to have publicly sided with the Muslim Brotherhood.
Witnesses said the country deployed extra police forces around the Egyptian Embassy in Doha.
Qatar’s emir stepped down last week in favour of his son, raising speculation the world’s largest exporter of liquefied natural gas may be reconsidering its support for the Muslim Brotherhood.
Influential Muslim cleric Youssef al-Qaradawi, an Egyptian seen close to the Muslim Brotherhood who had lived in Qatar for many years, is reported to be in Egypt. He had denied reports that Qatar’s new emir, Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani, had asked him to leave the country.
Qatar has been a major financier of the Islamist groups around the Arab World, including Egypt’s Brotherhood.
7 Comments on "Gulf Arabs welcome ouster of Egypt’s president"
GregT on Thu, 4th Jul 2013 3:14 pm
“Meet the new boss same as the old boss”
“High time we made a stand & shook up the views of the common man
And the love train rides from coast to coast
DJ’s the man we love the most
Could you be, could you be squeaky clean
And smash any hope of democracy
As the headline says you’re free to choose
There’s egg on your face and mud on your shoes
One of these days they’re gonna call in the ruse, yeah”
Egypt’s problems will not be solved by another change in political power.
Newfie on Fri, 5th Jul 2013 12:55 am
The Egyptians are rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic.
“Egyptian unrest is the consequence of a fatal cocktail of structural failures rooted in an unsustainable global model of industrial civilisation – addicted to fossil fuels, wedded fanatically to casino capitalism, and convinced, ostrich-like, that somehow technology alone will save us.” – The Guardian
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/earth-insight/2013/jul/04/egypt-muslim-brotherhood-morsi-unrest-protests
BillT on Fri, 5th Jul 2013 6:23 am
I understand that Mursi wanted Egypt to get militarily involved in the overthrow of Syria’s Assad, according to the BBC. The Egyptian military did not want to get involved in wars outside of Egypt, and so, removed the warmonger Mursi.
Mohamed Mursi
1878…was granted a scholarship from the Egyptian Government to prepare for a PhD degree in the United States
… a leading member in the Muslim Brotherhood
…temporarily granted himself unlimited powers to “protect” the nation in late November 2012,(sound familiar, Americans?) and the power to legislate without judicial oversight or review of his acts, hundreds of thousands of protesters began demonstrating against him … (but that never happened in America!)
And the beat goes on…
BillT on Fri, 5th Jul 2013 6:24 am
Ooops! 1978…
Arthur on Fri, 5th Jul 2013 8:14 am
Haha, the UK created Syria situation is getting completely out of hand, just like in Iraq. The idea was to topple Assad, because he was allied to Iran. The Clouseaus in London and Washington forgot to realize that if you topple someone, somebody else is going to takeover, who could be worse. And the MB Sunnis in Turkey and Egypt were all too keen to let the US/UK create a Powerfull MB continuum in the entire ME. There is no clearer sign that a power is running on its last legs if it starts to pile mistake upon mistake. The idea behind the 2003 invasion was to increase influence in the ME. The result could easily be the total removal of western influence. The MB is not going to evaporate, they will be back.
Arthur on Fri, 5th Jul 2013 9:20 am
Ah yes, Bill is correct, I see it here, on my standard morning ipad, armchair + coffee inspection of Dutch and German newssites plus lewrockwell, antiwar and peakoil.com:
http://www.irishtimes.com/news/world/africa/morsi-role-at-syria-rally-seen-as-tipping-point-for-egypt-army-1.1450612
Morsi got the boot because he wanted to give the Anglos a hand in Syria.lol It all makes sense. Better indication of the desperation of the Clean Breakers in Washington/London is difficult to imagine. Now they want Syria to break up, as if it were a diamond. Now I know that the people behind Clean Break also largely control the diamond trade, but again, Syria is no diamond. Meanwhile the waiting is for the first European country to give the finger to Washington and grant asylum to Snowden. Austria has already said it is not afraid of the US. It would be another little handgrenade under the Atlantic alliance.
Shaved Monkey on Fri, 5th Jul 2013 12:55 pm
No democracy until we get a Israel tolerating elected official, mean while the US pumps money in and therefore can get the security firm to deliver the results it needs, at arms length.
People think they are being heard but they are just being herded.