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purejuiceMy question to atthesametime and any other Cairo hands out there, is, are the middle-aged men glimpsed in the NYT coverage of the crowds at Tahrir Square who are acting as marshals, photographed linking arms to guide and protect the anti-government protesters, and in this vignette, encouraging non-violent response against Mubarak's private thug army, the Muslim bros?
Sameh Saber, another anti-government protester, started running toward the battle line [in Tahrir Square] with a tree branch.
"Put it down," an older man implored.
"Three of my friends are bleeding inside," Mr. Saber yelled back, "and my friend lost an eye!" But he put down the branch.">
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/03/world/middleeast/03egypt.html?pagewanted=2&ref=middleeast
Since its inception in 1928 the movement has officially opposed violent means to achieve its goals....
The Times identified them as the protesters who stopped last night at sunset for prayers. But everyone in Egypt does this, including the teenage protesters photographed by the NYT at the beginning of the week doing the same, and the soigne Orientalist golfers I saw at the Alexandria country club with prayer rugs rolled up in their golf bags -- caddied, to be sure, by Nubians. I don't know where the Nubians kept their prayer rugs. Rolled up inside their machetes, maybe.
Update at 2 pm MST:
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/04/world/middleeast/04brotherhood.html?ref=global-home
atthesametime and any other Cairo hands out there, is, are the middle-aged men glimpsed in the NYT coverage of the crowds at Tahrir Square who are acting as marshals, photographed linking arms to guide and protect the anti-government protesters, and in this vignette, encouraging non-violent response against Mubarak's private thug army, the Muslim bros?Sameh Saber, another anti-government protester, started running toward the battle line [in Tahrir Square] with a tree branch.
"Put it down," an older man implored.
"Three of my friends are bleeding inside," Mr. Saber yelled back, "and my friend lost an eye!" But he put down the branch.">
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/03/world/middleeast/03egypt.html?pagewanted=2&ref=middleeast
Since its inception in 1928 the movement has officially opposed violent means to achieve its goals....
The Times identified them as the protesters who stopped last night at sunset for prayers. But everyone in Egypt does this, including the teenage protesters photographed by the NYT at the beginning of the week doing the same, and the soigne Orientalist golfers I saw at the Alexandria country club with prayer rugs rolled up in their golf bags -- caddied, to be sure, by Nubians. I don't know where the Nubians kept their prayer rugs. Rolled up inside their machetes, maybe.
Update at 2 pm MST:
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/04/world/middleeast/04brotherhood.html?ref=global-home
