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Hassan Ammar / AP
Supporters of Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi chant slogans as one holds up the Quran, Islam's holy book, during a demonstration after the Friday prayer, in Cairo, Egypt, on Dec. 14. Opposing sides in Egypt's political crisis were staging rival rallies on Friday, the final day before voting starts on a contentious draft constitution that has plunged the country into turmoil and deeply divided the nation. Arabic reads, "yes to the constitution."
Khalil Hamra / AP
Egyptian protesters attend Friday prayers before a demonstration against a constitution drafted by Islamist supporters of President Mohammed Morsi in Tahrir square in Cairo, Egypt, on Dec. 14. Opposing sides in Egypt's political crisis were staging rival rallies on Friday, the final day before voting starts on a contentious draft constitution that has plunged the country into turmoil and deeply divided the nation.
Petr David Josek / AP
Protesters play with a ball in front of a tank securing the area around the presidential palace in Cairo, Egypt, on Dec. 14. Opposing sides in Egypt's political crisis were staging rival rallies on Friday, the final day before voting starts on a contentious draft constitution that has plunged the country into turmoil and deeply divided the nation.
Reuters -- Stone-throwing supporters and opponents of Islamist President Mohamed Mursi clashed in the Egyptian city of Alexandria on Friday ahead of a referendum on a new constitution that has divided the Arab world's most populous nation.
Dozens of activists fought with clubs and swords, witnesses said, and a number of cars were set alight on the streets of Egypt's second biggest city on the eve of a vote that Mursi hopes will bring an end to the country's worsening political crisis.
Scuffles started near a mosque in Alexandria when opposition members handing out flyers clashed with Mursi supporters.
In Cairo, flag-waving pro-Mursi Islamists staged a final rally on Friday before the referendum, but the gathering outside one of the capital's main mosques was peaceful.
AP
Opponents of Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi hold pamphlets urging a "no vote" on a constitutional referendum as cars burn during clashes between supporters and opponents of President Mohammed Morsi in Alexandria, Egypt, on Dec. 14, a day before the referendum on the constitution. Opposing sides in Egypt's political crisis were staging rival rallies on Friday, the final day before voting starts on a contentious draft constitution that has plunged the country into turmoil and deeply divided the nation.
Amr Abdallah Dalsh / Reuters
Supporters of Egyptian President Mohamed Mursi and members of the Muslim Brotherhood chant pro-Mursi slogans during a rally at Rabaa El Adaweya Mosque square in Cairo on Dec. 14. Flag-waving supporters of Mursi staged a final rally on Friday before a divisive referendum on a new constitution that the Islamist leader hopes will bring an end to weeks of political crisis and street clashes. The sign reads, "Yes to constitution".
Reuters
Supporters of Egyptian President Mohamed Mursi (above) clash with anti-Mursi protesters to prevent them from entering a mosque in Alexandria on Dec. 14. Flag-waving supporters of the president staged a final rally on Friday before a divisive referendum on a new constitution that the Islamist leader hopes will bring an end to weeks of political crisis and street clashes.
Reuters
A car belonging to supporters of Egyptian President Mohamed Mursi burns during clashes with anti-Mursi protesters in Alexandria on Dec. 14. Flag-waving supporters of the president staged a final rally on Friday before a divisive referendum on a new constitution that the Islamist leader hopes will bring an end to weeks of political crisis and street clashes.
Mohamed Abd El Ghany / Reuters
An employee of the constitutional referendum committee prepares a ballot box for the upcoming referendum at a polling station in Cairo on Dec. 14. Flag-waving supporters of the president staged a final rally on Friday before a divisive referendum on a new constitution that the Islamist leader hopes will bring an end to weeks of political crisis and street clashes.
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Hope and Change came to Egypt .
It's because they are Egyptians, and they are Muslims. Both always have been, and always will be violent. How about Obama stops sending them our hard earned money ?
The uneducated men in this country want Sharia law.The younger educated people want a Democracy.I love the picture of the two guys in the women's veiled clothing.
Hi just a. Curious but why do you think those are men??? (2nd photo, right?) Under islamic laws and customs, dressing up as a woman is a big no-no and the lady on the left appears to be wearing heavy eye make-up plus they're standing in the back. No matter who wins (I'm sure it will be Morsi), doubtful that things will change much for the better as far as women's rights are concerned. It's really too bad.
"Supporters of Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi chant slogans as one holds up the Quran, Islam's holy book, during a demonstration after the Friday prayer, in Cairo, Egypt, on Dec. 14."
This is 21st century.
Sunni Islamic extremists are trying to hijack the liberation struggle against Mubarak!
Did many hear that Sunni Islamic animal, Morsi's name during those days?
Let us hope that Sunni Islamic hating and killing machines with labels like MB, Salaffi and their front cover Morsi is thrown out at the earliest!
They are bad news even for moderate Muslims and females!
Those Mursi supporters look more like fanatical morons. Wow, what a country.
Looks like the muslims are'nt as popular in Egypt as they thought they were heh heh. Historically, Egypt never was a muslim country come to think of it lol. Take that you islamic extremist heh heh. I find this rather comical LOL
canoworms,You are right about them not being historically a Muslim country.
Most of the Muslim nations were not Muslim countries.
But they became a majority by swords, rapings, lootings, killings, stealings and genocides of non-Muslims.
In some nations, they did their love and peace Sufi style soap operas to spread their religion.
Fountainheads of fast backward march of Islam, especially Sunni Muslims, are Saudi Arabia and Pakistan.
Saudi Arabia invented the one-way traffic hating and killing Sunni sects like Salaffi and Wahhabi, funded them, and exported them on a massive scale all over the world.
Pakistan has provided foot soldiers.
Troubles in Egypt, Syria, Mali, Pakistan and other nations are due to them!
Sane Egyptians should right away kick out all MB, Salaffi and Morsi.
These Salaffi, MB Sunni Islamic religious Nazis are dangerous to Army too.
So army should just erase them once for all from the map of Egypt!
I won't be surprised if it passes by virtue of some voting irregularities...but I think Morsi sacrificed unity in the name of quick action, and many Egyptians will want to amend or rewrite this Constitution if it is adopted.
Don't forget Christians, Morsi wants Sharia law and Muslims will kill anybody to insure Islam is the only religion.
Excuse me, I meant to say that Islam is a Cult!!!!
Egypt made strives to become a modern society and the US moved in and drove back two thousand years.
GO TEAM USA !!
Chasduse,The U.S. did not vote Morsi into office.the man out and out lied to the Egyptian people by claiming to be a moderate Muslim.They were duped and now realize it thus all of the rioting and bloodshed.Obama promised Morsi two billion of our tax dollars.I haven't seen Obama retract that money offer yet,have you?
In Egypt, the Sunni extremists with labels like Salaffi and MB (Muslim Blood hounds) are opening up new chapters of Islamic bigotry. Morsi is just a front for them.
Just watch the fate of sane Muslims, Christians, women and Israel as the time goes by.
Followers of Islamic cult, especially House of Saud and other Sunni ME rulers inspired and funded Sunni Islamic radicals and militants (al-Qaida, Salaffi, Wahhabi, MB, Taliban and other label ones), are fast marching backwards to their seventh century desert tribal days.
They are indulging in rapings, lootings, killings and genocides of non-Muslims (Darfur, S. Sudan, Nigeria and spreading like wild fire in many regions and Muslims (Libya, Yemen, Mali, Iraq, Syria, Pakistan, Afghanistan and other places).
Even in Syria, if Assad is overthrown by Sunni Islamic religious Nazis like al-Qaida, MB, the conditions of Christians will be unbearable just like Iraq.
Pakis and Sunni rulers of Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Kuwait, UAE and other Sunni Arab League nations are responsible for 80 percent of world problems including economic ones. Examine the devastations with Iraqi wars and now sanctions on Iranian oil and the resultant oil price manipulations.
They are making the lives of their own people also miserable by their Islamic religious madness to the intolerable levels.
Are we not committing hara-kiri by supporting our enemies and killers?
This is what a poor economy overpopulation poor education barbaric social customs and a book called the Quran that glorifies murder will bring its people. This was predicted by many as to what would happen if they were freed from Mubarak. Should they have been freed? Is it any better or worse for them? Is that even a valid question? There lives could be made peaceful if they would embrace a socially responsible and kind way of treating each other. It would be if they would abolish their near ninety percentile range of female genital mutilations. It would be so much better for them if they would voluntarily adopt a one child only policy. If they continue to ignore these basic human rights and proactive actions they will be forced to accept the consequences.
The libs and secularists are a bunch of savages.