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European allies. One Western European ambassador in Washington described the plan as encapsulating "all that is wrong with American foreign policy" and described as a "caricature" the notion of sending out B-52s to bomb the sands near the Libyan-Egyptian border. Another Western diplomat said flatly: "The means employed...
As the week passed, precious few additional details came to light concerning the Sadat assassination. One theory remained unchanged: that the assassins were members of a small, violent Islamic fundamentalist group, Takfir wa Hijra (Atonement and Holy Flight). An outgrowth of the Muslim Brotherhood, Takfir wa Hijra was responsible for...
Takfir wa Hijra is only one of an unknown number of fanatical Islamic groups that permeate wide sections of Egyptian society. Says Political Scientist Ali E. Hillal Dessouki of Cairo University: "My hunch is that there are many groups of ten or 15 people, organized into very small cells. They...
Many of the Islamic groups have at their center a powerful leader. In the case of Takfir wa Hijra, it was Shukri Ahmed Mustafa, who was hanged by the Sadat government in 1978 for planning the murder of the former Religious Affairs Minister. To his followers, the charismatic Mustafa was...
AMONG THE BELIEVERS: AN ISLAMIC JOURNEY