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Yemeni Nobel Peace Prize winner barred from entering Egypt

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Who gives a flying horseshoe if she was barred from Egypt!!

Just because she was a noble Peace Prize winner does not make her opinions or action unquestionable!!!

She went to Egypt to cause trouble!!!

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http://news.yahoo.com/yemeni-nobel-peace-prize-winner-barred-entering-egypt-115553285.html

CAIRO (Reuters) - Egyptian authorities barred Yemeni Nobel Peace laureate Tawakul Karman - a supporter of deposed president Mohamed Mursi - from entering the country on Sunday and put her on a flight back to Dubai, security sources said.

State news agency MENA said Karman, who had previously announced her solidarity with supporters of Mursi, overthrown by the army a month ago, was on a list of people who were not allowed to enter Egypt.

A spokesman for Mursi's Muslim Brotherhood said Karman had recently joined demonstrations in Cairo demanding the former leader be reinstated.

Karman's Twitter feed on Sunday said the writer and activist had been held at Cairo Airport and prevented from joining protests. She was sent back on the same plane she flew in on, the security sources said.

The Brotherhood criticized Karman's deportation and said it was reminiscent of the rule of former autocrat Hosni Mubarak.


Nobel Peace Prize winner Tawakul Karman of Yemen gestures from a car as she leaves Sanaa Internation …

"This is an abandonment of the gains of Egypt's January revolution. The government is reproducing the practices of Mubarak's state security," said Yasser Ali, a Brotherhood official and former presidential spokesman.

Karman, a 34-year-old mother of three, who became a figure of symbolic importance in the 2011 Yemeni uprising, was the first Arab woman and second Muslim woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize. In Yemen she is called the "Iron Woman" and "Mother of the Revolution".

A member of Yemen's leading Islamic opposition party, the Islah, Karman had denounced the army's toppling of Mursi, calling it a "coup" and a "blow to democracy".

In a statement on Friday, she said it had weakened moderate political Islam and strengthened the hand of religious extremists in the Arab world.

"We can't allow this sense of disappointment in democracy to grow. This is terrifying. Rest assured the first beneficiary of the weakening currents of political Islam are violent terror groups."
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moderate political Islam

Gotta love the Arab world, the solution to the problem of Islam is of course, still Islam! It's already 13 years into the 21st century, well nevermind that let's just give them another few hundred years, maybe their brains may evolve to become rational by then.
 
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