This has been brewing for a long time now and it looks like it’s starting to come to a head:
NBC NEWS – Egypt is bracing for mass nationwide protests this weekend amid deepening divisions that have set neighbor against neighbor and raised fears of unrest.
Organizers of “June 30” demonstrations — which mark one year since Islamist President Mohammed Morsi’s election — claim they have the backing of an estimated 15 million Egyptians who want him to resign.
“Only God knows what will happen [on Sunday],” said Gamal Abdul Aziz, a pro-Morsi car mechanic in Madba’a, a blue-collar district in Cairo.
Building on discontent about a range of social and economic issues, Morsi’s opponents hope to force early presidential elections. His supporters, meanwhile, have promised they will also take to the streets to defend the Muslim Brotherhood-backed government on Friday ahead of opposition protest.
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Egypt’s leading religious authority warned Friday that the country could “slide into civil war.”
Munim said he believed “most” of Egypt’s registered 50 million voters will be out on the streets, supporting one side or the other.
“We are sure that we will go out and get beaten up by the [Muslim] Brotherhood [but] we are going out despite this,” he said. “There is no security, there is economic collapse, the electricity cuts off and everybody is suffering. They will say Morsi is not at fault, but electricity didn’t cut off when the military governed.”
Let’s not forget the rather ominous statement Morsi made back in March:
In remarks following clashes outside the Brotherhood’s Cairo headquarters on Friday, Morsi warned that would be taken against any politicians shown to be involved in what he described as violence and rioting.
“If I am forced to do what is required to protect this nation, then I will do it. And I fear that I might be on the verge of doing it,” Morsi said in a statement. He did not elaborate.
It looks like this is about to get really ugly, just as predicted:
Isaiah 19:2 “And I will set the Egyptians against the Egyptians: and they shall fight every one against his brother, and every one against his neighbor, city against city and kingdom against kingdom.”