{"id":31965,"date":"2012-04-14T20:26:02","date_gmt":"2012-04-14T20:26:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/a_brotherhood_show_of_force_as_egypt_turns_to_presidential_election\/"},"modified":"2012-04-14T20:26:02","modified_gmt":"2012-04-14T20:26:02","slug":"a_brotherhood_show_of_force_as_egypt_turns_to_presidential_election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=31965","title":{"rendered":"(CSM) A Brotherhood show of force, as Egypt turns to presidential election"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Egypt&#8217;s Muslim Brotherhood sent tens of thousands of members pouring into Tahrir Square&#8230;[recently] in an Islamist show of force as the country turns toward a presidential election scheduled for May 23.<\/p>\n<p>Smaller Islamist groups joined the Brothers on Tahrir, all venting their anger at the felool, or remnants of former President Hosni Mubarak&#8217;s regime, who many say are a threat to Egypt&#8217;s revolution. The Brotherhood had kept its supporters off the streets since winning parliamentary elections at the end of last year. But the entrance of Omar Suleiman, a long-time confidant and spy-chief of the deposed Mubarak, into the race and legal maneuvers to have some of the Islamists&#8217; own candidates disqualified brought them out&#8230;[this week].<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.csmonitor.com\/World\/Middle-East\/2012\/0413\/A-Brotherhood-show-of-force-as-Egypt-turns-to-presidential-election\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Egypt&#8217;s Muslim Brotherhood sent tens of thousands of members pouring into Tahrir Square&#8230;[recently] in an Islamist show of force as the country turns toward a presidential election scheduled for May 23. Smaller Islamist groups joined the Brothers on Tahrir, all<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=31965\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,40,50,560,203,151,108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-egypt","category-middle-east","category-politics-in-general","category-religion-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31965","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31965"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31965\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}