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Brotherhood guide: We will protect Morsi with our souls

Brotherhood guide: We will protect Morsi with our souls

The Supreme Guide of the Muslim Brotherhood, Mohamed Badie, showed up on Friday afternoon at the Rabea al-Adawiya sit-in where Islamists have been camping to demand the return of deposed Islamist President Mohamed Morsi. 

Badie addressed the thousands assembled at the sit-in from a stage despite, earlier reports that he had been arrested.

"We will remain in the squares until Morsi returns to his post," he told the crowd, which erupted into chants declaring the legitimacy of the ousted president. Morsi was ordered out of office by a military statement on Wednesday following mass calls for his departure. 

Addressing Morsi, Badie said, "we will sacrifice our souls for you." He reminded his followers that the revolution should remain peaceful: "Our peacefulness is stronger than their bullets and their tanks."

Badie called on the Armed Forces to "return to Egypt and the Egyptian people," inferring that they were in fact working against the will of the nation. He called on the army to leave politics and return to protecting the nation's borders.
 
"We protect you, and you defend us from our enemies," he declared.
 
Badie stressed that Christians are part of the nation, but asserted that their pope should not be speaking on their behalf. Pope Tawadros of the Coptic Church was part of the meeting during which Supreme Council of the Armed Forces Commander Abdel Fattah al-Sisi announced Morsi's ouster.

Military choppers flew at a low altitude as Badie addressed the sit-in. 

#Mohamed Badie #Mohamed Morsi #Rabea al-Adaweya sit-in
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