{"id":9292,"date":"2013-08-18T13:34:23","date_gmt":"2013-08-18T13:34:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/praag.org\/?p=9292"},"modified":"2013-08-18T13:35:58","modified_gmt":"2013-08-18T13:35:58","slug":"thousands-march-in-morocco-in-support-of-egyptian-islamists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=9292","title":{"rendered":"Thousands march in Morocco in support of Egyptian Islamists"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_9293\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9293\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/rabat_protest.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-9293\" alt=\"Protest in Rabat\" src=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/rabat_protest-300x184.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"184\" srcset=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/rabat_protest-300x184.jpg 300w, https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/rabat_protest.jpg 573w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-9293\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Protest in Rabat<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Around 10,000 people took part in a demonstration in the Moroccan capital, Rabat, on Sunday in support of Islamists in Egypt locked in a deadly showdown with security forces.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The crowd carried banners condemning the police operations that have cost hundreds of lives among demonstrators demanding the reinstatement of Egypt&#8217;s army-ousted Islamist president Mohamed Morsi and posters showing the dead in makeshift morgues in Cairo.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;Soldiers should be carrying out their duty of protecting the nation&#8217;s territory instead of killing their own people,&#8221; said Driss Leghroudi, a 33-year-old academic.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;History is repeating itself. It happened in Algeria in 1992 (with its civil war) &#8230; It&#8217;s Saudi Arabia which is behind it&#8221; in Egypt, he charged, as the crowd chanted for the expulsion of the Egyptian ambassador to Morocco.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Morocco initially adopted a neutral stand after last month&#8217;s toppling of Morsi but the authorities in Rabat have since expressed alarm over the carnage resulting from a security crackdown to remove Morsi&#8217;s supporters from the streets.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">More than 750 people have been killed in violence across Egypt since Wednesday, official figures show. &#8211; AFP<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Around 10,000 people took part in a demonstration in the Moroccan capital, Rabat, on Sunday in support of Islamists in Egypt locked in a deadly showdown with security forces. The crowd carried banners condemning the police operations that have cost hundreds of lives among demonstrators demanding the reinstatement of Egypt&#8217;s army-ousted Islamist president Mohamed Morsi &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=9292\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Thousands march in Morocco in support of Egyptian Islamists&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":9293,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,123],"tags":[2982,190,2409,4137,315,5240],"class_list":["post-9292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-world","tag-cairo","tag-egypt","tag-islamists","tag-morocco","tag-protests","tag-rabat"],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":false,"source_text":false,"source_url":false},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/rabat_protest.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9292","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9292"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9292\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9294,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9292\/revisions\/9294"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}