{"id":466180,"date":"2011-07-22T12:58:01","date_gmt":"2011-07-22T12:58:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/07\/22\/egypt-protesters-back-in-tahrir-to-push-for-change\/"},"modified":"2011-07-22T12:58:01","modified_gmt":"2011-07-22T12:58:01","slug":"egypt-protesters-back-in-tahrir-to-push-for-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/07\/22\/egypt-protesters-back-in-tahrir-to-push-for-change\/","title":{"rendered":"Egypt protesters back in Tahrir to push for change"},"content":{"rendered":"
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CAIRO,- Hundreds of Egyptian protesters gathered in Cairo\u2019s Tahrir Square on Friday to push for reforms, as Islamists held a separate demonstration calling for stability.<\/p>\n

Pro-democracy activists had called for a rally in Tahrir Square \u2014 the epicentre of protests that toppled president Hosni Mubarak \u2014 after a cabinet reshuffle failed to satisfy their demands.<\/p>\n

Sheikh Mazhar Shaheen, conducting the sermon, said the new cabinet line-up had fallen short of the expectations of protesters who want members of Mubarak\u2019s regime forced out of politics.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe last time we met, we had hoped there would be a government that would express and implement our demands,\u201d said Shaheen, who has been giving the weekly sermon in Tahrir.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut for a reason we don\u2019t know, they insist on subjecting us to members of the old regime,\u201d he told worshippers, who turned out in significantly smaller numbers than in previous weeks.<\/p>\n

He reiterated the protesters\u2019 demands of fair trials for officials found guilty of abuse, as well as social justice and an end to military trials for civilians.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are not demanding the impossible,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

But hundreds of hardline Islamists gathered several kilometres (miles) away outside Al-Fath mosque to denounce the protesters they say are prolonging the country\u2019s instability, following the uprising that ousted Mubarak in February.<\/p>\n

\u201cAn Islamist state! Not secular, not civilian,\u201d chanted the protesters.<\/p>\n

The gathering was organised by fundamentalist Salafi groups, who advocate a return to early Muslim practices.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe let them stay in Tahrir so that people can see them for who they are,\u201d a protest leader told the crowd.<\/p>\n

Islamists, including the powerful Muslim Brotherhood who have stayed away this week, have said they will head to the iconic square next Friday.<\/p>\n

The Al-Fath protesters also called on the ruling military council \u201cnot to lose the people in order to get the acceptance of this minority,\u201d referring to those in Tahrir.<\/p>\n

The Islamists accused the Tahrir protesters of going against what they say is the country\u2019s \u201cIslamic identity.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are Muslims, we are part of this country. But who are you? Secularists? Communists? Americans?,\u201d the speaker said.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf you don\u2019t like it, go to the countries you wish to emulate,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Thursday\u2019s swearing-in of the new cabinet failed to persuade the Tahrir protesters to go home.<\/p>\n

Prime Minister Essam Sharaf had hoped the changes in his cabinet would mollify the protesters camped out in the square since July 8.<\/p>\n

Roughly half of the cabinet is made up of new faces, but several ministers hired by Mubarak have remained, including Interior Minister Mansur Essawy.<\/p>\n

In an address after the reshuffle, Sharaf said he asked his ministers to prepare action plans with the \u201cfirst objective of achieving the revolution\u2019s goals and preserving its gains.\u201d<\/p>\n

But activists were unimpressed.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis government does not in any shape express our aspirations for the revolution,\u201d said Tareq al-Khouli, a leader of the April 6 movement and organiser of the sit-in.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe don\u2019t understand why they are being so obstinate about keeping former Mubarak party members, rather than replacing them with respectable people,\u201d Khouli said, adding the sit-in would continue.<\/p>\n

It was the second cabinet to take office in the face of protests since Mubarak stepped down on February 11.<\/p>\n

The former president is under arrest on murder and corruption charges in a hospital in the Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh, where he is undergoing treatment for a heart condition.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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