I wrote an article on the recent moralist crackdown in Egypt, and how Sisi polices the religious establishment.
Tag: religion
Rock in a Hard Place
My review for Socialist Worker of “Rock in a Hard Place” by Orlando Crowcroft.
‘War on infidels’
It was a pile of trash already, but it’s even getting worse since Yasser Rizk became the CEO of Al-Akbar, Egypt’s second largest state-owned newspaper.
Just to give you a sample, above is Al-Akhbar’s front page on 28 March, breaking the news about the Egyptian army’s heroic efforts to “abort a terror strike” on a security check point in Sinai’s Sheikh Zuweid’s area, as the “Apaches bomb a Houthi cell in Rafah that includes Palestinians and Iranians!”
And today’s front page runs a headline announcing the “martyrdom of 15 [Egyptian army] fighters and the liquidation of 27 infidels!”