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Article: In Egypt, a rising threat of religious rule
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- June 27, 1993
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SUEZ, Egypt -- Sheik Hafez Salama, 68, leans over his desk one
floor above the Martyrs' Mosque in this eastern Egyptian city and is
asked about the New York arrest of eight Islamic radicals charged
with plotting assassinations and bombings.
"It is apparent that the United States, and behind it, the West,
have taken aggressive positions against Muslims all over the world
and this may irritate some of the youth," says the sheik as
white-robed acolytes enter and exit his office, kissing his bald pate
and touching his long, white beard.
After a survey of what he considers US-inspired evils from Somalia
to Bosnia to Iraq, the sheik, a senior cleric in Egypt's Islamic
fundamentalist movement who ...