Dozens of Egyptian immigrants rallied outside the Lloyd George U.S. Courthouse on Saturday, urging the Obama administration and Secretary of State John Kerry to withdraw millions of dollars in foreign aid from their homeland and concede that the overthrow in July of their first freely elected president was a military coup.
Waving Egyptian flags and chanting, “Shame on you! Shame on you! It’s a coup! It’s a coup!” the mostly Muslim group pleaded for some sort of U.S. government intervention to protect their immediate family members in Egypt, some of whom have been caught in the crossfire of intermittent riots on the streets of Cairo and its suburbs.
“They’re crying over there. It’s been a bloody struggle ever since Morsi was thrown out,” said Mohammed Maybed, 50, as he held a sign that said: “Morsi is my president.”
All of them said they felt the U.S. government, which prides itself on its democratic principles, should have at least recognized that Morsi’s overthrow was a coup.
“If people started protesting in the streets here and brought tanks out and got rid of Obama or Bush, wouldn’t you call that a coup?” said Osama Haikal, 60, a Las Vegas physician. “And yet the United States is refusing to call it what it is. And each year we continue to send the Egyptian military millions of dollars in aid.
“I just don’t get it.”
“We’re hoping the Obama administration will hear us from here. We’re hoping that (U.S. Senate Majority Leader) Harry Reid might hear us and talk to Secretary of State John Kerry. We want everybody to know that we believe in democracy, we love America, and that we are all about self-determination, both here in the United States and in Egypt.”
IF THEIR ARE SO WORRIED ABOUT EGYPT AND THEIR FAMILIES WHY ARE THEY PROTESTING IN AMERICA?READ MORE
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