Egypt’s ’Secular’ Gov Uses Religion as Tool of Repression
…the absence of evidence linking them to terrorism, and the fact that an al-Qaeda-affiliated extremist group has claimed responsibility for much of the recent violence in the area. The Muslim Brotherhood’s alleged misuse of religion was offered up as a major justification for Egypt’s military coup, which deposed Morsi, a longtime Brotherhood leader. Yet given that the post-coup government has arguably been more forceful about using religion as a t…
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