from JihadWatch
Democracy? An infidel system! "Radical Islamist group threatens violence after Egypt Morsi overthrow," from
Ahram Online, July 6:
A new Islamist group has announced its formation in Egypt,
calling the army's ousting of Mohamed Morsi a declaration of war on its
faith and threatening to use violence to impose Islamic law.
Ansar Al-Sharia in Egypt said it would gather arms and start training
its members, in a statement posted on an online forum for militants in
the country's Sinai region Friday and recorded by the SITE Monitoring
Service.
The army's move, which was backed by mass rallies across Egypt, has
raised fears Islamists could desert officially recognised groups like
Morsi's Muslim Brotherhood and move to more militant movements.
Morsi's exit has already triggered violence. At least 30 people died
as Islamists took to the streets in Cairo and other cities Friday to
vent their fury at what they say was a military coup.
Morsi was elected president last year after a popular revolution swept away veteran leader Hosni Mubarak.
The army has appointed an interim leader and announced a transition plan that lacks a timeframe for fresh elections.
It has also arrested senior Muslim Brotherhood members and closed Islamist television stations.
Ansar Al-Sharia said in its statement that the military overthrow,
the closing of television channels and the death of Islamist protesters
all amounted to "a war declared against Islam in Egypt," SITE reported.
The group blamed the events on "criminal" secularists, supporters of
Mubarak and Egyptian Coptic Christians, state security forces and army
commanders, who they said would turn the country into "a crusader,
secular freak."
It denounced democracy as an "infidel system" and said it would
instead champion Islamic law, or Sharia, acquire weapons and train to
allow Muslims to "deter the attackers, preserve the religion and empower
the Sharia of the Lord," SITE reported.
In the early hours of Friday an Egyptian soldier was killed by an
armed Islamic group in North Sinai, later on the same day another five
were killed by unknown gunmen in the peninsula.
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