Anti-Obama signs prominent at Egypt's Tahrir Square protests

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NBC News – Cairo’s Tahrir Square on Sunday filled with supporters of the Egyptian military, demonstrating in favor of the army’s actions to remove President Mohammed Morsi and blasting those who have called the leader’s ouster a military coup and not a revolution.

Street clashes between Morsi supporters and opponents in recent days have claimed more than 30 lives.

On Sunday, it was tens of thousands of people gathered in the infamous focal point of the Arab Spring to voice support for the military, whose leaders removed the democratically elected president Morsi last week and put him under house arrest.

“It’s not an army decision it’s our revolution, this is the way that we choose it and we thank the army for supporting us for this decision,” Nasham Basharah told NBC News while demonstrating in the square.

Brashoursh Al Kashef, a female American-Egyptian citizen, called the recent developments the second leg of the 2011 Arab Spring.

“What is happening here is not democracy, what is happening here is dictatorship. [Morsi]  had the power in his hand, he took the power from the people, he did not listen to the people, the people did not have any choice but for Army to protect them,” she said.

Demonstrators held signs that read “Egypt: A revolution not a coup” and others held signs with an ‘X’ over President Barack Obama’s face. The anti-American sentiment stems from a perception by some that Obama was not supportive of the army’s actions to overthrow Morsi.

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