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Protesters: Send Morsi to the Moon

FROM EGYPT TO INFINITY

Have entered the president into space-travel contest.

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Morsi in Berlin on Jan. 30. (Sean Gallup/Getty)

Egyptian opposition groups are so desperate to get rid of President Mohamed Morsi, they’re getting creative. The April 6 Youth Movement—one of the major protest groups responsible for leading the 2011 uprising that took down former dictator Hosni Mubarak—has entered the country’s Islamist president’s name in an online drawing for a trip to space. On its Facebook page, April 6 wrote of the contest, “For sure no one in the universe can put up with blatant lies, reneging on promises except for the brotherly people of the moon.” In a world gone to hell, the moon’s starting to look good.

Read it at Associated Press