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“We want our leaders to listen to us, to solve our problems,” Ahman F. told me in the Cairo suburb of Giza. But when I asked him and his friends what type of government they wanted, they were puzzled by the question.
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‘We are finally free to be good Muslims,’ Nabil S. told me last summer, outside a mosque in one of Cairo’s numerous slums. ‘We don’t have to be afraid the security services will arrest us if we pray five times a day.’ But Nabil and like-minded Egyptians view freedom as an opportunity to impose their ideas on others. They want Egypt to embrace the Islamic values and suppress the rights of secularists.
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‘We are finally free to be good Muslims,’ Nabil S. told me last summer, outside a mosque in one of Cairo’s numerous slums. ‘We don’t have to be afraid the security services will arrest us if we pray five times a day.’ But Nabil and like-minded Egyptians view freedom as an opportunity to impose their ideas on others. They want Egypt to embrace the Islamic values and suppress the rights of secularists.
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‘We are finally free to be good Muslims,’ Nabil S. told me last summer, outside a mosque in one of Cairo’s numerous slums. ‘We don’t have to be afraid the security services will arrest us if we pray five times a day.’ But Nabil and like-minded Egyptians view freedom as an opportunity to impose their ideas on others. They want Egypt to embrace the Islamic values and suppress the rights of secularists.
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‘We are finally free to be good Muslims,’ Nabil S. told me last summer, outside a mosque in one of Cairo’s numerous slums. ‘We don’t have to be afraid the security services will arrest us if we pray five times a day.’ But Nabil and like-minded Egyptians view freedom as an opportunity to impose their ideas on others. They want Egypt to embrace the Islamic values and suppress the rights of secularists.
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بالرغم من تركيز الإخوان المسلمين على التغيير المجتمعي، سعى الرئيس محمد مرسي إلى إقامة بعض الإصلاحات الاقتصادية والبيروقراطية. فقد قام بزيادة رواتب العاملين في الحكومة بنسبة 15%. ووعد بمعالجة النقص في المواد الغذائية الأساسية والوقود. وتعهد بتحسين الأمن والحد من الاختناقات المرورية التي تسد شوارع القاهرة. ولكن من بين 64 هدفًا وضعها خلال حملته الانتخابية، لم يتحقق منها سوى تسعة فقط.
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Despite the Muslim Brotherhood’s focus on societal change, President Mohammad Morsi has tried to institute some economic and bureaucratic reforms. He increased government workers' salaries by 15%. He promised to address shortages in basic staples and fuel. And he pledged to improve security and reduce the traffic jams that clog Cairo streets. But of the 64 goals he laid out during his campaign, only nine have been met.
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‘We are finally free to be good Muslims,’ Nabil S. told me last summer, outside a mosque in one of Cairo’s numerous slums. ‘We don’t have to be afraid the security services will arrest us if we pray five times a day.’ But Nabil and like-minded Egyptians view freedom as an opportunity to impose their ideas on others. They want Egypt to embrace the Islamic values and suppress the rights of secularists.
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‘We are finally free to be good Muslims,’ Nabil S. told me last summer, outside a mosque in one of Cairo’s numerous slums. ‘We don’t have to be afraid the security services will arrest us if we pray five times a day.’ But Nabil and like-minded Egyptians view freedom as an opportunity to impose their ideas on others. They want Egypt to embrace the Islamic values and suppress the rights of secularists.
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‘We are finally free to be good Muslims,’ Nabil S. told me last summer, outside a mosque in one of Cairo’s numerous slums. ‘We don’t have to be afraid the security services will arrest us if we pray five times a day.’ But Nabil and like-minded Egyptians view freedom as an opportunity to impose their ideas on others. They want Egypt to embrace the Islamic values and suppress the rights of secularists.
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‘We are finally free to be good Muslims,’ Nabil S. told me last summer, outside a mosque in one of Cairo’s numerous slums. ‘We don’t have to be afraid the security services will arrest us if we pray five times a day.’ But Nabil and like-minded Egyptians view freedom as an opportunity to impose their ideas on others. They want Egypt to embrace the Islamic values and suppress the rights of secularists.
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Despite the Muslim Brotherhood’s focus on societal change, President Mohammad Morsi has tried to institute some economic and bureaucratic reforms. He increased government workers' salaries by 15%. He promised to address shortages in basic staples and fuel. And he pledged to improve security and reduce the traffic jams that clog Cairo streets. But of the 64 goals he laid out during his campaign, only nine have been met.
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‘We are finally free to be good Muslims,’ Nabil S. told me last summer, outside a mosque in one of Cairo’s numerous slums. ‘We don’t have to be afraid the security services will arrest us if we pray five times a day.’ But Nabil and like-minded Egyptians view freedom as an opportunity to impose their ideas on others. They want Egypt to embrace the Islamic values and suppress the rights of secularists.
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Despite the Muslim Brotherhood’s focus on societal change, President Mohammad Morsi has tried to institute some economic and bureaucratic reforms. He increased government workers' salaries by 15%. He promised to address shortages in basic staples and fuel. And he pledged to improve security and reduce the traffic jams that clog Cairo streets. But of the 64 goals he laid out during his campaign, only nine have been met.
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Despite the Muslim Brotherhood’s focus on societal change, President Mohammad Morsi has tried to institute some economic and bureaucratic reforms. He increased government workers' salaries by 15%. He promised to address shortages in basic staples and fuel. And he pledged to improve security and reduce the traffic jams that clog Cairo streets. But of the 64 goals he laid out during his campaign, only nine have been met.
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Despite the Muslim Brotherhood’s focus on societal change, President Mohammad Morsi has tried to institute some economic and bureaucratic reforms. He increased government workers' salaries by 15%. He promised to address shortages in basic staples and fuel. And he pledged to improve security and reduce the traffic jams that clog Cairo streets. But of the 64 goals he laid out during his campaign, only nine have been met.
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‘We are finally free to be good Muslims,’ Nabil S. told me last summer, outside a mosque in one of Cairo’s numerous slums. ‘We don’t have to be afraid the security services will arrest us if we pray five times a day.’ But Nabil and like-minded Egyptians view freedom as an opportunity to impose their ideas on others. They want Egypt to embrace the Islamic values and suppress the rights of secularists.
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‘We are finally free to be good Muslims,’ Nabil S. told me last summer, outside a mosque in one of Cairo’s numerous slums. ‘We don’t have to be afraid the security services will arrest us if we pray five times a day.’ But Nabil and like-minded Egyptians view freedom as an opportunity to impose their ideas on others. They want Egypt to embrace the Islamic values and suppress the rights of secularists.
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‘We are finally free to be good Muslims,’ Nabil S. told me last summer, outside a mosque in one of Cairo’s numerous slums. ‘We don’t have to be afraid the security services will arrest us if we pray five times a day.’ But Nabil and like-minded Egyptians view freedom as an opportunity to impose their ideas on others. They want Egypt to embrace the Islamic values and suppress the rights of secularists.
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‘We are finally free to be good Muslims,’ Nabil S. told me last summer, outside a mosque in one of Cairo’s numerous slums. ‘We don’t have to be afraid the security services will arrest us if we pray five times a day.’ But Nabil and like-minded Egyptians view freedom as an opportunity to impose their ideas on others. They want Egypt to embrace the Islamic values and suppress the rights of secularists.
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