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		<title>Opposing the Egyptian opposition</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Oct 2011 09:03:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The ornamental 'official opposition' in Egypt is as dangerous as the authoritarian regime itself.]]></description>
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		<title>Secularism in a veil</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Jun 2009 10:22:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Khaled Diab An outward appearance of Islamism disguises the increasingly secular reality of some Arab and Muslim societies. April 2009 In a series of recent articles, Brian Whitaker explored the role of Islam in Arab politics, the decline of secularism and what can be done to reinvigorate it. He describes how &#8220;the decline of Muslim secularism reflects the rise of Islamism and the more generalised religious revival that has swept across the Middle East since the 1960s&#8221;. I agree with the basic outline of this analysis, but would hazard to say that secularism is far from dead. It continues to make gains, albeit disguised for modesty&#8217;s sake under an Islamic veil or pious beard. In fact, there has been a trend over the past century which has seen many Muslim societies go from thinly veiling their traditional Islamic character in modern western cultural clothes, to dressing up their internalised modernism and increasingly secular reality in a reassuring and personalised Islamic garb. The Secular party (later known as al-Wafd or Delegation) Whitaker refers to in his article, which was established in the interwar years to guide the struggle for Egyptian independence, provides an interesting case in point. He observes that [...]]]></description>
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