Anti-Government Protests in Ethiopia Supported by Egypt As the Arab Spring revealed, Mohamed Morsi and the Muslim Brotherhood are masters at co-opting democratic revolutions for Islamist causes. Will Ethiopia be the next nation to fall to this strategy? By Andrew Miiller A startling new revelation has emerged about the recent anti-government protest in Ethiopia. In light of increasing tensions between Egypt and Ethiopia over Nile River rights, the Muslim Brotherhood government in Egypt has decided to cooperate with the Muslim Brotherhood government in Sudan to support Ethiopian radical Islamist leaders sitting in exile in Khartoum. These Egyptian-supported, Islamist leaders were largely responsible for prompting the 10,000-strong, anti-government demonstrations that took place in Addis Ababa during the first days of June. This anti-government demonstration may have been officially organized by the secular Semayawi (Blue) Party and it may have attracted the support of many Christian youth, but the majority of the 10,000 demonstrators were Muslims calling for increased religious freedom and the release of political prisoners. thetrumpet/article/10705.18.0.0/middle-east/anti-government-protests-in-ethiopia-supported-by-egypt
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