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Amr Abdallah Dalsh / Reuters
An anti-Morsi protester stands with the national flag after protesters burned Muslim Brotherhood buses during clashes near the Muslim Brotherhood's national headquarters in Cairo's Moqattam district on March 22, 2013.
Mohamed Abd El Ghany / Reuters
Muslim Brotherhood supporters conduct Friday noon prayers in front of the main headquarters of the Brotherhood in Cairo on March 22, 2013.
Amr Nabil / AP
Egyptians shout anti-Muslim Brotherhood slogans during a march from downtown to the main Brotherhood headquarters in the hilltop neighborhood of Muqattam, Cairo, Egypt, on March 22, 2013. Thousands of protesters from different areas of Cairo are marching on Friday to express their rejection of the Muslim Brotherhood and President Mohammed Morsi's rule.
Amr Nabil / AP
Egyptians shout anti-Muslim Brotherhood slogans during a demonstration, in Talaat Harb Square in downtown Cairo, Egypt, on March 22, 2013.
By Reuters
CAIRO (Reuters) - Hundreds of Egyptian protesters and Muslim Brotherhood supporters clashed near the group's headquarters in Cairo on Friday, and at least 30 people were wounded, medics said.
Columns of riot police stood guard as chanting protesters holding flags and banners packed streets around the Brotherhood headquarters, footage on Al Jazeera and state TV showed.
Earlier in the day, Brotherhood supporters had arrived in the vicinity on buses and were showered with stones from the protesters, and Brotherhood supporters threw stones back, witnesses said. About 30 people were wounded in the fighting, Mohamed Sultan, the head of the ambulance service, said.
Khaled Desouki / AFP - Getty Images
Supporters of the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood clash with anti-government protesters near the movements' headquarters in Cairo on March 22, 2013.
Amr Abdallah Dalsh / Reuters
Anti-Morsi protesters carry a Muslim Brotherhood member after hitting him during clashes near the Muslim Brotherhood's national headquarters in Cairo on March 22, 2013.
Amr Nabil / AP
Egyptian policemen write a report at a destroyed branch headquarters of the Muslim Brotherhood after protesters broke in to the building in Cairo, Egypt, on March 22, 2013.
Khaled Elfiqi / EPA
An Egyptian anti-Muslim Brotherhood protester throws a stone towards Muslim Brotherhood supporters during clashes near the party's national headquarters in Cairo on March 22.
Khaled Elfiqi / EPA
An injured Egyptian anti-Muslim brotherhood protester is taken away by his comrades, during clashes near the Muslim Brotherhood's national headquarters in Cairo, Egypt, on March 22.
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Guess the only person the MuzzieBruthas are popular with is Obama. Go figure.
We are talking the Dremocrap Liberal leftist Muslim Brotherhood cheese sucking Handout HOGS party here right?
Its another Saturday night and those Egyptian boys are out for some good old fashion Muslim fun. Lets beat each other up. Seriously though Mursi and the Muslim Brotherhood went way way overboard in their bid for power. What did they expect when the nation was equally divided in how to run the govt? Instead of addressing both they chose their agenda over the other half of their citizens needs and this is the result. Sometimes I question the intelligence of the human species absolute faith in rule through domination. Science has given the world the tool to utterly destroy ourselves and yet people just keep using this same primitive strategy to solve problems. Will the earth breathe a sigh of relief when we are all gone? That is if it comes to annihilation. I still hold out hope and pray for humanity and our children's futures.
I am an Australian tourist who just flew out of Cairo after touring Egypt for three weeks. From my room at the Intercontinental Semiramis where I stayed for two nights, I saw student protesters burning the US, British and Australian flags outside the Embassy at 3am. They were chanting all sorts of things in Arabic while throwing rocks and sticks at the police and the army, but the main word I could clearly understand that they chanted in unison: Hezbollah.
There seem to be a number of issues, therefore, behind these protests and so far I have read stories where blame has been singled out towards the ruling Muslim brotherhood or simply the recent court decision about a soccer match. Each story has had a different thread but by being there it is now clear to me there are different threads but the media would do the most justice for the Egyptian people by tying the threads together in a way that explains what is happening in a rational way for the western world.
So far, all I have seen is 'spot fire' reporting. Protests emerge and the public is left to assume it is all about one issue or another, which is not the case at all when you speak to a range of people in Cairo who are not directly involved with the protests.
In short, the negative portrayal of protesters in Cairo is really hurting the majority of Egyptians at the moment because the usual number of tourists normally keen tosee the ancient sites, are staying away in droves because of reported 'trouble'. This is such a shame as the majority of Egyptians welcome the tourism because they know ithas always been the economic backbone of the country. I would suggest visiting Egypt if you planned to go, but stay at Giza near the pyramids and not in Cairo city hotels. Here you will be safe to wander freely with your only worries being the hawkers at every site who struggle to feed their families.
the last man standing can then rule the country....