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July 15, 2013       Share:    

Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/somnia/1d08752e-ea45-11e2-a301-ea5a8116d211_story.html

Egypt's Islamists Are Out But Not Down

(Washington Post) Fouad Ajami - Two fundamentalisms have clashed: the Muslim Brotherhood's religious calling and the secularists' belief in the supremacy of their social order. On one side are those who want to live by Islamic sharia law. On the other are those who want to keep faith at bay, play soccer in the streets, watch racy television shows, give their children a secular education and smoke hookahs in peace at coffeehouses late into the night. But the army, and those who hail its intervention as a gift of deliverance, can't wish the Muslim Brotherhood away. The dream of banishing political Islam from public life is illusory. The writer is a senior fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution.

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