CAIRO — An association of Egyptian judges called Saturday for courts across Egypt to suspend all but their most vital activities to protest an edict by President Mohammed Morsi granting himself unchecked power by setting his decrees above judicial review until the ratification of a new constitution.
The judges’ strike, which drew the support of the leader of the national lawyers’ association, would be the steepest escalation yet in a political struggle between the country’s new Islamist leaders and the institutions of the authoritarian government that was overthrown last year.
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Mohammed Morsi said "In the United States President Obama said that he can rule by decree. I am simply doing the same thing".
The problem in Egypt, as in many other Islamic states, can be summed up in two words: failed culture.