Mutual Escalation in Egypt

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Mutual Escalation in Egypt

2015 Carnegie Egypt Islamic Movements and Institutions Mokhtar Awad Nathan J. Brown Paper Security and Counter-Terrorism

February 09, 2015 03:35 am

Source: Carnegie Endowment
Author(s): Mokhtar Awad, Nathan J. Brown

Original Link: http://carnegieendowment.org/2015/02/09/mutual-escalation-in-egypt-pub-59014

Since the overthrow of former president Mohamed Morsi in July 2013, Egyptian political rhetoric has been overheated. But something different seems to be afoot in both camps. Among the Muslim Brotherhood’s supporters, subtle excuses for political violence are giving way to more open calls. On the side of the regime of now-President Abdel Fatah al-Sissi, there is an attempt to move the religious apparatus of the state from acceptance of the suppression of Islamists to enthusiastic support while using the media to direct anger at jihadists to all Islamists…

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