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As Islamists enter Egyptian politics, extreme fringe grows in Sinai

By | 2012-04-01T16:39:05-04:00 April 1st, 2012|News|

In Sinai, an arid peninsula the size of Ireland but home to fewer than a million people, groups at the extreme fringe of the Islamist spectrum are expanding, even as Islamists long outlawed by the state enter the political mainstream in Cairo, where they now dominate parliament and are poised to enter government.