October 7, 2012Salafists Surge Across Arab WorldBooth, Washington Post
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![]() AP Photo The elections that followed the Arab uprisings elevated Islamists out of decades of repression and into the region’s most powerful posts. Here in Egypt, a former prisoner became president. But to Salafists, adherents of a puritanical form of Islam who have embraced the country’s new freedoms with gusto, the emerging Islamist order has a serious flaw: It isn’t nearly Islamist enough. TAGGED: Libya, Yemen, Kuwait, Tunisia, Middle East, Egypt, Salafists, Political Islam RECOMMENDED ARTICLES
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