{"id":37889,"date":"2013-09-24T09:58:18","date_gmt":"2013-09-24T16:58:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/?p=37889"},"modified":"2013-09-24T09:58:18","modified_gmt":"2013-09-24T16:58:18","slug":"egypt-bans-muslim-brotherhood-rewrites-constitution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/2013\/09\/24\/egypt-bans-muslim-brotherhood-rewrites-constitution\/","title":{"rendered":"Egypt Bans Muslim Brotherhood, Rewrites Constitution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><ul class=\"inline-playlist playlist\" title=\"\"><li><a href=\"http:\/\/archive.org\/download\/20130924Uprising\/2013_09_24_egypt.mp3\">Listen to this segment <\/a><\/li><\/ul><ul class=\"inline-playlist playlist\" title=\"\"><li><a href=\"http:\/\/archive.org\/download\/20130924Uprising\/2013_09_24_uprising.mp3\">Listen to the entire program<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=right width=50% src=\"\/home\/graphics\/muslim_brotherhood.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/>Egypt\u2019s revolutionary experiment has taken another turn, with the outright ban this week of the Muslim Brotherhood organization, that former Prime Minister Mohammad Morsi was part of. In response to a lawsuit filed by a left wing party called Tagammu, which accused the Brotherhood of \u201cexploiting religion in political slogans,\u201d a court on Monday ordered the organization disbanded and all its assets frozen. <\/p>\n<p>After Morsi\u2019s ouster, Egypt\u2019s interim government has rounded up and arrested about 2000 senior leaders from the Brotherhood and Morsi himself remains in a secret location. The court order also bans the Brotherhood\u2019s related network of institutions like schools, charities, and hospitals. <\/p>\n<p>Being banned is nothing new for the Muslim Brotherhood, which has been an underground organization for the vast majority of its 85-year history. Its followers number anywhere between a few hundred thousand to a million Egyptians. The Brotherhood remains fairly unpopular among the majority of the rest of the 85 million strong population. <\/p>\n<p>The banning of the Muslim Brotherhood happens at the same time as a major political process is underway to re-write the constitution that was drafted and passed by Morsi\u2019s government. <\/p>\n<p><em>GUEST: Ghada Talhami, emeritus professor in the department of politics at Lake Forest College. Her books include The Mobilization of Muslim Women in Egypt and Palestine in the Egyptian Press.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Egypt\u2019s revolutionary experiment has taken another turn, with the outright ban this week of the Muslim Brotherhood organization, that former Prime Minister Mohammad Morsi was part of. In response to a lawsuit filed by a left wing party called Tagammu, which accused the Brotherhood of \u201cexploiting religion in political slogans,\u201d a court on Monday ordered [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-program"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37889","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37889"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37889\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37902,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37889\/revisions\/37902"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}