COMMENT: Egypt­ian pres­i­dent Mohammed Mor­si [Mur­si in some translit­er­a­tions] has issued a decree, essen­tial­ly mak­ing him a total­i­tar­i­an ruler in the opin­ion of for­mer sup­port­ers such as Mohamed ElBa­radei (for­mer head of the IAEA.)

The Mus­lim Broth­er­hood offices in Egypt have been burned by out­raged cit­i­zens.

We have dis­cussed the Mus­lim Broth­er­hood at length and in detail for many years. Far from being the “mod­er­ate” orga­ni­za­tion some ana­lysts have tabbed it, it is an Islam­ic fas­cist orga­ni­za­tion dat­ing back to the pre-World War II peri­od.

The Broth­er­hood’s pres­i­dent is demon­strat­ing the true nature of the orga­ni­za­tion, as well as that of the orga­ni­za­tion.

Just such a devel­op­ment was pre­dict­ed here dur­ing the so-called “Arab Spring.” Mursi/Morsi is cement­ing the agen­da we pre­dict­ed would mate­ri­al­ize.

An exam­i­na­tion of the char­ter, behav­ior and mil­i­tary cadre of Hamas, the Broth­er­hood’s Pales­tin­ian branch, offers a quick insight into the nature of the orga­ni­za­tion.

(Pho­to cred­it at upper right, independentsentinel.com)

“Egyp­t’s Pres­i­dent Mur­si Assumes Sweep­ing Pow­ers”; BBC; 11/22/2012.

EXCERPT: Egyp­t’s Pres­i­dent Mohammed Mur­si has issued a dec­la­ra­tion ban­ning chal­lenges to his decrees, laws and deci­sions.

The dec­la­ra­tion also says no court can dis­solve the con­stituent assem­bly, which is draw­ing up a new con­sti­tu­tion.

Pres­i­dent Mur­si also sacked the chief pros­e­cu­tor and ordered the re-tri­al of peo­ple accused of attack­ing pro­test­ers when ex-Pres­i­dent Mubarak held office.

Egypt­ian oppo­si­tion leader Mohammed ElBa­radei accused Mr Mur­si of act­ing like a “new pharaoh”. . . .

. . . But Mr ElBa­radei said the decree effec­tive­ly placed the pres­i­dent above the law.

“Mur­si today usurped all state pow­ers and appoint­ed him­self Egyp­t’s new pharaoh. A major blow to the rev­o­lu­tion that could have dire con­se­quences,” the Nobel Peace Prize win­ner wrote on his Twit­ter account.

The vice-pres­i­dent of the Supreme Con­sti­tu­tion­al Court, Tahani al-Gebali, told the Span­ish news agency Efe that Mr Mur­si was now an “ille­git­i­mate pres­i­dent”.

The Egypt­ian Judges’ Club has called an extra­or­di­nary meet­ing to dis­cuss Mr Mur­si’s deci­sion. “The state of law is at stake,” the asso­ci­a­tion said in a pub­lic state­ment.

Mean­while Heba Morayef, the Egypt direc­tor for Human Rights Watch, said that while the coun­try need­ed judi­cial reform, “grant­i­ng the pres­i­dent absolute pow­er and immu­ni­ty is not the way to do it”.