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| Citation | Zuhur, Sherifa. "State Power and the Progress of Militant and Moderate Islamism in Egypt," in Countering Terrorism in the 21st Century, Vol. 3: Lessons Learned in the Fight Against Terrorism, edited by James J.F. Forest (Westport, CT: Praeger, 2007). |
| Topic 1 | Case Studies |
| Topic 2 | Religious Ideology |
| Topic 3 | Political Islam |
| Country | Egypt |
| Abstract | Zuhur provides a detailed history of Egypt's long (and recently resurgent) conflict with several Islamist groups, some of which have proved more violent than others. For must of this history, Egypt's leaders have sought to contain Islam as a political force, and suppressed an array of Islamist groups. While officials disagree that their stringent counterterrorist actions could encourage further jihad, she argues, torture and imprisonment of Islamists in the 1960s produced several results in the 1970s: uncompromising radicalism and aims to immediately overthrow the state; or accommodation and commitment to a gradual Islamization of the state, this being the path of the Muslim Brotherhood. Torture and imprisonment in the late 1970s and 1980s led to further organizational development in prisons themselves, including the forming of new radical groups, and the spread of "global jihad" or the quest for sanctuary somewhere outside of Egypt. She notes that in recent years, Egypt has accepted moderate Islamism in other dimensions (intellectual and social), but recent acts of religious violence (including attacks in Cairo, Sharm al-Shaykh, and Dahab) have renewed the state's efforts to counteract the rise of moderate Islamism in its political form. [JF] |
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