@ISIDEWITHQuestionsForeign policy11yrs ago

Should Australia back the Egyptian military's crackdown against the muslim brotherhood?

In June 2012 Egypt democratically elected its first head of state, Mohammed Morsi of the Muslim Brotherhood. Morsi's term as President lasted less than one year before he was ousted by the Egyptian military in the spring of 2013. Morsi's supporters have since rebelled against the military sending the country into a state of of near civil war.

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Yes, the faster the Egyptian military can regain power the sooner the violence will end
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No, we should stay out of this
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No, the Muslim Brotherhood won control of the Egyptian government in a democratic election and Australia should support its cause

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 @4YKNF3Tfrom New South Wales  answered…4yrs4Y

Muslims have nothing to do with terrorism. ISIS and terrorist organisations are the issue. Not Muslims

 @8XLWHR9answered…3yrs3Y

Democracy should be supported, neither religion or military should have power

 @8DML7QDanswered…4yrs4Y

No country should be governed based on religion so the Muslim brotherhood should be stopped

 @92BY7JVanswered…3yrs3Y

I would need to know more about this

 @8Y63RT5answered…3yrs3Y

Yes, the Muslim Brotherhood is a terrorist organisation!

 @8P7J5KDanswered…4yrs4Y

I don’t have enough information

 @8W2TYLSanswered…3yrs3Y

Don’t know enough

 @8TH4HRBanswered…3yrs3Y

I don't think Australia should get involved but I also think religion and politics should never mix

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 @S0c1alSecur1tyOatmeal from Massachusetts submitted…2wks2W

Egypt Furious Over Israel Seizing Syria Territory

Israel has taken more Syrian territory, justifying the incursion as a temporary move to protect its citizens but drawing a furious reaction in the region.Defence minister Israel Katz on Monday said the country’s military was continuing to seize “high ground” inside Syria after the toppling of Bashar al-Assad’s regime on Sunday by a group led by the Islamist Hayat Tahrir al-Sham.The movement of tanks and infantry, which extended into and beyond a previously demilitarised buffer zone, was condemned “in the strongest possible terms” by Egypt, which said it amounted to the “occupation of Syrian land” and a “severe breach” of a 1974 armistice deal.Regional powers are scrambling to respond to the stunning 12-day offensive by HTS, once an affiliate of al-Qaeda, which led disparate rebel factions to overthrow the Assad dynasty on Sunday.A wide swath of the Israel-Syria frontier had been governed by the 1974 armistice agreement, including a significant UN peacekeeping force to monitor the pact. Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, visiting the border region on Sunday, said the agreement had “collapsed” after Syrian army units abandoned their positions, with Israeli forces taking them over “to ensure no hostile force embeds itself right next to the border of Israel”.But, in a statement on Monday, the Egyptian foreign ministry said Israel’s recent actions had “exploited the . . . vacuum in Syria in order to occupy more Syrian land and to impose new facts on the ground in contravention of international law”.It called on the UN Security Council and international powers to take a “firm position” towards “Israeli attacks” on Syria.Other countries — both supporters and opponents of the toppled Assad regime — have also expressed concern that its fall could lead to further instability in the region.

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