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Every regime’s purpose is to find a segment of its population to vilify, and thus appear to be fighting the good fight for the good and decent majority. Traditionally in Egypt you always needed an illegal and forbidden group, which has been the Muslim Brotherhood over the past 60 years. However, ever since the deal between the Military and the Brotherhood back in early 2011, to form the new regime, the need to manufacture a new forbidden group has been in constant demand

The genius of turning the Black Bloc into the new enemy is how perfect they are for it. An anarchist group that targets the police, public structures and roads, juxtaposed against the Brotherhood who are always calling for stability. It doesn’t hurt that the Black Bloc has no real structure, charter, spokespeople or leadership.