Thousands rally for Egypt's Islamist president

Tens of thousands of supporters of Egypt's Islamist president gathered on Friday for a huge rally that filled part of a main boulevard near Cairo's presidential palace in a show of force against opponents demanding his ouster, signs of increasing tension and polarization.

With pictures of President Mohammed Morsi, Quranic chants over loudspeakers and shouts of "Islamic, Islamic in the eye of the secularists," the rally indicated that Morsi's Islamist backers and his Muslim Brotherhood appeared to be an attempt to give a religious flavor to the nation's deep political differences. (AP)