CAIRO — Egypt’s Islamist president warned against any unrest that could harm the drive to repair the country’s battered economy in his first address before the newly convened upper house of Parliament on Saturday, urging the opposition to work with his government.
In the nationally televised speech, Mohammed Morsi said the nation’s efforts should be focused on ‘‘production, work, seriousness, and effort,’’ now that a new constitution had come into effect this past week. He blamed protests and violence this past month for further damaging an economy already in crisis since the fall of autocrat Hosni Mubarak.
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Democracy and Islam are not compatible.
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Two quick observations: 1. At the risk of sounding "politically correct," I only noticed one woman in the photo (on the balcony). Is she the only female on the Shura Council? 2. The new constitution passed with a very small affirmative vote from the electorate: 0.64 * 0.33 = 21%. That's arguably a very slim level of support and may bode trouble.
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