Friday’s attack on a mosque in the tiny Sinai village of al-Rawdah continues to cast a large shadow across Egypt, marking what is being called the single biggest attack on civilians in Egypt’s modern history.
Some 305 civilians were killed and a number of others were wounded when ISIS bombed the crowded Sufi mosque, then followed up the attack with a flurry of gunmen shooting up the panicked crowd, while trying to block the exits.
Village elders say the attack was not unexpected, as ISIS had warned them recently that they both had to “stop collaborating” with the junta, and to forbid the Sufis from holding “rituals” within the village. They’d also reportedly distributed leaflets to villages with similar demands.
Egypt has been fighting the ISIS affiliate in Sinai since their military coup, and has struggled to make any long-term progress against them. The massive mosque attack is seen by some as proof that the junta remains weak in Sinai, despite continued troop deployments and airstrikes in the region.
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Someday there will be a semblance of democracy in Egypt – either of moderates like the Muslim Brotherhood, or of jihadists / sharia extremists. It’s the most likely outcome of decades of the US buying military repression for Egyptians, distorting the balance of power in their government. This is at the root of the State Dept talking up “stability” instead of democracy, but all it does is build pressure for something more extreme.
the “sharia” is a decentralized system of law developed by highly legalistic urban elites, spread from Morocco to the central asian stans.
there are no islamic parties that do not support the sharia in one form or another, and its misrepresentation in the west is probably the single greatest distortion between general opinion and reality of any generally known subject.
No one paragraph from either of us could fairly characterize the role of Sharia in the Muslim world. Even if we were infinitely knowledgeable, we would have different interpretations. In states that have been officially Muslim for decades like Pakistan, there have been leaders like Benazir Bhutto with a relatively moderate interpretation and tendency towards secular governance. My point was to draw attention to the pattern that US violent pressure for secularism does little to stop extremism over time and may even fuel it.
“we would have different interpretations.”
not really, a survey of surviving court documents make two things very clear,
the vast vast majority of sharia law cases had to do with property law (criminal cases were mostly left to civil authorities) and Jews/Christians who used the sharia courts have no statistical bias against them
Let’s throw in old history. Is it still the most?