.... In the most recent protests launched by the Muslim Brotherhood on Saturday 2nd December 2012, the rhetoric used was largely ideological. “the People want the application of the Shariah”. Slogans of the revolution such as “Bread, freedom and social justice” were changed to “bread, freedom and the Islamic Shariah”.
.... The third element of the fascist form of governance that we witness today is the role of “cleansing” and the use of the language of purity. In Hitler’s Germany, it was not only the racially different populations that were the subject of cleansing: the disabled, gays and gypsies were also subjects of cleansing policies. In Egypt, we say the beginnings of a process of religious cleansing through the expulsion of Coptic Christians from their homes in villages and towns. [openDemocracy] Read more
