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Ed Webb

Egypt Sufis plan mass rally to counter Salafist and Wahhabi muscle flexing - Politics -... - 0 views

  • Salafists have been tugging the rope towards a theocratic government, whereas most political forces are tugging towards a 'civil state', which accepts the status quo with regards to the recognition of Islam in the Constitution and would replace the de facto military rule with a civilian one.
  • Sufi leaders, who tend to favour religious tolerance and generally abstain from politics, were alarmed after hundreds of thousands of Islamists organised mass protests around the country on 29 July to call for the establishment of an Islamic state in Egypt.
  • at least six million people - or one in every three young men - belong to one or another of the more than 40 Sufi orders
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