The 2013 Egyptian Revolution - Morsy was not "democratically elected"

July 5, 2013

There has been a lot of misinformation spread and a lot of misunderstanding about the historic events which happened in Egypt from 30 June, 2013 through 3 July, 2013.

Let's see if we can straighten out some of that for those who are being mislead by most media outlets around the world and in particular in America.

To do this, in each post, I will paraphrase one of the various statements I have heard and then correct the inaccuracies or misleading portions of them.

First up, "Morsy is Egypt's first democratically elected president."

FALSE. Morsy was elected through an incredibly fraudulent election in which several intimidation tactics were used including:

1. Many voters were "greeted" at the polls by armed, pro-Muslim Brotherhood thugs who threatened them unless they voted for Morsy.
    
2. The Muslim Brotherhood - being the gracious patriots that they are - "offered" (and by "offered" I mean, "we're going to do this or, if you prefer, we can shoot you!") to have their members proctor the polling places to make sure that the elections were run fairly and smoothly.
    
3. As a result of having the Muslim Brotherhood members controlling the polling places, many voters showed up at the polls and were surprised to find out that they had voted before they arrived. Such efficiency! To clarify, that means people showed up to vote but were told, "Sorry, you have already voted. You will not be given a ballot. Go home."
   
4. In many smaller cities, armed thugs from the Muslim Brotherhood patrolled the streets and threatened to kill any Christians who came out to vote. Naturally, they all stayed home in fear for their lives.

In addition to these CONFIRMED problems, there are widespread claims that the Muslim Brotherhood took advantage of the lack of organization and government control over the election by stuffing the ballot boxes with fraudulent votes. Because of the chaos there at the time, this claim cannot be confirmed.

For those who do not know the details about the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, it is estimated that the entire Brotherhood has less than 2 million members in Egypt which has a national population of approximately 85 to 90 million.

The Brotherhood's credo ends with, "Jihad is our way; and death for the sake of Allah is the highest of our aspirations."

So please, let's not claim that Morsy was "democratically elected" by any stretch of the imagination.