Gates of Vienna News Feed 11/22/2012

Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi has given himself unprecedented new powers. The Muslim Brotherhood leader issued an executive order that designates his future edicts as mandatory and unappealable, which makes him a virtual dictator.

In other news, a British executive who until recently worked for a Kuwaiti-owned bank claims that he was sacked from his job because he isn’t a Muslim.

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