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Egypt to face protests aimed at ‘imposing Islamic identity’

November 23, 2014

Egypt’s banned Muslim Brotherhood welcomed on Sunday a call for protests scheduled for Friday, November 28 under the banner of “imposing Egypt’s Islamic identity”. The Brotherhood released a statement describing the scheduled protests as “a new wave of the glorious Egyptian revolution.” The Salafist front is organising protests on Friday, calling on people to take to the streets holding Qurans to “impose the Islamic identity.” Interior Minister Mohamed Ibrahim said last week that all security apparatuses are ready to “abort the calls of extremist groups which aim for attacking public and private property on November 28.” “The Muslim Brotherhood values this call to preserve the nation’s identity for which the Egyptian people have long struggled,” the Brotherhood’s statement read. “The Egyptians will not accept having their identity blurred or raging a war against their sanctities, destroying their mosques, burning their Qurans, killing their youth or dragging their women.” The Brotherhood stressed that “every Egyptian faction” is entitled to expressing their opinion “with complete freedom [and] without being accused of treason or of being infidels.” The group also warned the authorities of committing acts of “vandalism” or “killing innocent [men]” and…


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