US Ambassador to Egypt: Do Not Protest Morsi Regime

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As Egyptians of all factions prepare to demonstrate in mass on June 30 against the Muslim Brotherhood and President Morsi's rule, blatantly, the US ambassador to Egypt Anne Patterson requested Egyptians to refrain from participating in the coming rallies against the brotherhood regime.

Morsi himself, expectedly, has been trying to reduce the numbers of protesters, which some predict will be in the millions and eclipse the Tahrir protests that earlier ousted Mubarak.
Morsi recently called on Coptic Christian Pope Tawadros II to urge Egypt's millions of Christians, not to join the protests.
In support of Morsi and his regime, the US ambassador to Egypt is trying to prevent Egyptians from protesting-including the Copts.
According to the June 18 edition of ‘Sadi al-Balad', lawyer Ramses Naggar, the Coptic Church's legal counsel, during Anne Patterson's June 17 meeting with Pope Tawadros, she "asked him to urge the Copts not to participate" in the demonstrations against Morsi and the Brotherhood.
The Pope politely informed her that his spiritual authority over the Copts does not extend to political matters.
According to a report published by the Washington Post, the US ambassador's position as the Brotherhood's lackey is disturbing-and revealing-on several levels.
First, all throughout the Middle East, the US has been supporting anyone and everyone opposing their leaders-in Libya against Gaddafi, in Egypt itself against 30-year US ally Mubarak, and in Syria against Assad.

In all these cases, the US has presented its support in the name of the human rights and freedoms of the people against dictatorial leaders, said the report.
The report questions "So why is the Obama administration now asking Egyptians, especially Christians not to oppose their rulers-in this case, Islamists-who have daily proven themselves corrupt and worse, to the point that millions of Egyptians, most of them Muslims, are trying to oust them?"

The outrage in Egypt mounted after Patterson said in a speech earlier this week that she is "deeply skeptical" that protests will be fruitful and defended US relations with Morsi's Muslim Brotherhood as necessary because the group is part of the democratically elected Egyptian government.

"Some say that street action will produce better results than elections. To be honest, my government and I are deeply skeptical," she said Tuesday during a seminar organized by a Cairo research center. "Egypt needs stability to get its economic house in order, and more violence on the streets will do little more than add new names to the lists of martyrs."

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