Egyptian-Americans Split Over Morsi Coup
The Egyptian-American community is divided and frustrated over US policy toward Egypt.
![Activists from the Egyptian-Americans for Democracy and Human Rights organization protest outside the Egypt embassy in Washington Activists from the Egyptian-Americans for Democracy and Human Rights organization protest outside the Egypt embassy in Washington August 19, 2013. REUTERS/Yuri Gripas (UNITED STATES - Tags: POLITICS CIVIL UNREST) - RTX12R5T](/sites/default/files/styles/article_hero_medium/public/almpics/2013/09/1-RTX12R5T.jpg/1-RTX12R5T.jpg?h=2d235432&itok=7LO21cs-)
For the second time this summer, Muhammed Shoubir rode from New York City to Washington, DC, to protest what he calls the “anti-democratic military coup” that on July 3 ousted former president and Muslim Brotherhood member Mohammed Morsi.
With glasses and a trimmed beard and mustache, Shoubir, originally from Tanta, bears a striking resemblance to Morsi, whose Islamist party he says he supports, though he is not a member. In the 2011 Egyptian presidential elections, he voted from abroad for the independent Islamist Abdul Moneim Aboul Fotouh, and then for Morsi in the runoff.