whom the military opposed. (PBS, 2013) The presidential election was held on June 16th and 17th, 2012. Egypt's first freely-elected president, Mohammed Morsi, was sworn in to office on June 30, 2012. He recieved 51.7 percent of the vote, popular among Christians and Islamists alike. Morsi was Egypt's first Islamist president, and the first one without a military background. (Simmons, 2013) This was quite an accomplished day for Egypt. A little later on in his term, Morsi issued a proclamation allowing himself to take any and all actions that he deems necessary to protect the country, and continued to grant himself more power as his ruling continued.
Millions of people across Egypt protested on the one year anniversary of Morsi's election, calling for his resignation, because they felt as though he was abusing his power. He refused. Eventually, Egypt's armed forces overthrew Morsi saying that he did indeed abuse his power. The aftermath of Morsi's ousting has been regular and deadly protests that have taken place across the country. So far, supporters of Mohammed Morsi and the Muslim Brotherhood have attacked more than 160 Christian-owned buildings. In just one week, forty churches were looted and torched, while 23 others were attacked and heavily damaged. So far more than 800 people have died throughout the attacks. (Powers, 2013) The interesting part about the attacks is that Christians only make up 10 percent of the population in a country where millions of people turned out to call for the removal of the Egyptian president, making Christians just act as scapegoats for the President's removal, even though many others opposed the president as well and had a greater impact on Morsi's ousting.
Many things have happened so far with Egypt's revolution, President Morsi getting elected as the first democratically elected president, then being ousted one year after by the military for abusing his power. Now supporters of President Morsi and the