(http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/j/MSNBC/Components/Photo/_new/121207-egypt-protests-hmed-915a.photoblog600.jpg)Mohamed Abd El Ghany / ReutersAnti-Morsi demonstrators stage a protest outside the presidential palace in Cairo, Dec. 7, 2012. Egyptian opposition leaders rejected a national dialogue on Friday that Islamist president Mohammed Morsi had proposed as a way out of a crisis that has polarized the nation and provoked deadly clashes on the streets.By ReutersUpdated at 9:30 a.m. ET: CAIRO -- Egyptian opposition leaders rejected a national dialogue Friday that had been proposed by the Islamist president as a way out of a crisis that has polarized the country and provoked deadly clashes in the streets.
Opponents of Mohammed Morsi, the first elected head of state in Egypt's history, staged more street protests in Cairo, while his supporters in the Muslim Brotherhood held emotional funerals for six of the movement's members killed in fighting around the presidential palace earlier in the week.
Morsi had offered few concessions in a speech late Thursday, refusing to retract a Nov. 22 decree in which he assumed sweeping powers or cancel a referendum next week on a constitution newly drafted by an Islamist-dominated assembly.
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