As their nation descends into violent chaos, Egyptians are increasingly blaming the Muslim Brotherhood, despite attempts by the Islamist group to scapegoat Christians and the military, according to several sources who spoke to FoxNews.com from Cairo.
“The Muslim Brotherhood has lost all sympathy with their points due to their violence,” said a Long Island, N.Y., Egyptian-American, who is in a Cairo suburb for a family wedding.
The man, a Coptic Christian who asked that his name not be used until he and his family are safely back in the U.S., told FoxNews.com he arrived in the Cairo suburb of Heliopolis last weekend, just days after Muslim Brotherhood supporters began clashing violently with security forces. Since then, nightly curfews, angry mobs and closed roads that cut off supplies to restaurants and groceries have made his homeland unrecognizable.
"We see very few people after 7 p.m. in the streets," he told FoxNews.com.
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A Muslim woman named Nina told FoxNews.com most citizens – Christian and Muslim - are solidly behind the military, which has been criticized by the west for its decisive crackdown on Muslim Brotherhood supporters.
"I am Muslim and I am against terrorism and I support the revolution [which ousted Morsi] and I support all the decisions of the Egyptian army forces,” she said. "We love Egypt so much and we hope the foreign countries stop misunderstanding about us and the situation now in Egypt.”Read the full story HERE.
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I'm glad that many Egyptians aren't buying the Muslim Brotherhood's BS. They don't care about Egypt, the Egyptian people, or it's thousands of years of history.
All they care about is THEMSELVES, radical Islam, and Power.
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