Photo: UN Women Arab States (flickr)Main concerns of the United States as Morsi was declared the president-elect included the rights of women and Christians.
Egypt elected a new president this week. Muslim Brotherhood’s Mohamed Morsi won with 51.7 percent of the run-off vote against former prime minister Ahmed Shafiq, who took 48.3 percent.
The United States congratulated Morsi with White House press secretary Jay Carney saying,
We believe that it is important for President-elect Morsi to take steps at this historic time to advance national unity by reaching out to all parties and constituencies about the formation of a new government. We believe in the importance of the new Egyptian government upholding universal values, and respecting the rights of all Egyptian citizens, including women and religious minorities such as Coptic Christians.
Morsi met with Christian leaders and Egyptian youth activists this week, and has said his first appointments will be a woman and a Coptic Christian.
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Radio pundit Rush Limbaugh took the words of Hillary Clinton’s congratulations to the president-elect of Egypt to mean she is a member of the “Muslim Sisterhood.”
Limbaugh started by making a convoluted map of Clinton’s connections, including aide, Huma Abedin, and connecting her to the wife of Mohamed Morsi.
Likening Abedin’s alleged friendship with Morsi’s wife to the drama movie “Peyton Place,” Limbaugh made the conclusion that Clinton must be supporting the women’s offshoot of the Muslim Brotherhood.
As Think Progress points out, however, none of this was backed up with sources.
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A fire destroyed a 200-year-old Muslim shrine in Kashmir Monday, and the atmosphere is tense in Srinagar as boycotts enter the fourth day.
Business were shuttered and demands for the government to investigate the fire were heard in the area as calls were renewed for the removal of Indian control.
“It is still unclear what started the fire Monday that destroyed a shrine that held a few relics from Sheikh Abdul Qadir Jeelani, an 11th-century saint known widely as Ghaus-e-Azam who is buried in the Iraqi capital of Baghdad,” the Associated Press reported.
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