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Africa North
Egypt's Sisi turns Islam on the Islamists
2014-05-10
[Egypt Independent] As the Egyptian state presses its crackdown on the Moslem Brüderbund, the man expected to become president has deployed a new weapon in the battle with the Islamists: his own vision of Islam.

Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, the former army chief who deposed the Brotherhood's Mohammed Morsy and is expected to be elected president later this month, has cast himself as a defender of religion and taken aim at the doctrinal foundations of Islamist groups the state is seeking to crush.

Striking a pious tone that sets him apart from former president Hosni Mubarak
Posted by:Fred

#3  Well, this seems to have a chance to flush out "real" Islam for the whole world to see. How many of the Islamic "scholars" world wide sign up with him, how many fight him and how many try and keep their head down and play the middle of the road?

Could be very enlightening.
Posted by: AlanC   2014-05-10 08:36  

#2  Good for him.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2014-05-10 01:28  

#1  Almost makes you wish for the glory days of Anwar Sadat...
Posted by: Raj   2014-05-10 01:18  

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