Manal Salama: Mohamed El Baradei's Resignation is "Un-Manly"

Actress Manal Salama, commenting on recent turmoil in Egypt, has said that she, as an Egyptian citizen, is against terrorism in any form, and that a peaceful sit-in would not attempt to destroy or disrupt anything. She salutes the Interior Ministry for its efforts in breaking up the sit-in with minimal losses.

Salama also said that the Brotherhood's reaction to the forced dispersal of encampments at Rabaa el Adaweya and Nahda Square belies a kind of thuggery, and attempts to attack government buildings, and spread discord (fitna). Their reaction has backfired and produced the opposite result. Manal said that Pope Tawadros and Egyptian Christians have refused any foreign intervention to protect them, affirming that all Egyptians are "one hand."

She condemned the Brotherhood for what's happening in Egypt, and that it's absolutely necessary to change the constitution so that we have a civil state that guarantees freedom of life and belief, instead of discrimination, saying that religion is for God and the nation is for all.

As for El Baradei's resignation from his post as interim Vice President, she said that she did not feel right about his personality from the beginning and had expressed this opinion to the revolutionaries, and his recent move proved her opinion right with his resignation, which she described as "un-manly," and aims to divide Egypt and cast doubt on the June 30 revolution. She says he lost her respect and the respect of the Egyptian people.

As for Turkish PM Erdogan, she commented on his statements with the Qur'anic verse "they say what they don't do," pointing out that he ordered the dispersal of the sit-in at Taksim Square by force and killing, and yet condemns the removal of the sit-in of armed groups in Egypt. She described Erdogan as an 'aher seyassee, literally a political whore.

For reference, the Egyptian Health Ministry puts Wednesday's casualties at 638.