Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - October 29, 1981, Winnipeg, Manitoba 8 Winnipeg free october 1981 Mubarak scythes Down the fanatics by David Ottaway Washington Post Cairo with the bullish Ness of a general going into Egypt new military Hosni has begun an fallout Campaign to quash this country moslem extremists from ranks his government says came the assassins of president Anwar i has wasted no time in wielding the razor Sharp sword of the As he called his Promise of Swift Justice for islamic fanatics in his presidential inaugural he has or dered police to shoot anyone seeking to disturb the peace and declared the death penalty for anyone caught using an unlicensed gun in without he has launched a manhunt for suspected moslem extremists in every City and Village of the Interior ministry recently announced that it had uncovered a hew moslem terrorist group and arrested 230 of its but there reports that the total of new detainees nearly equals the persons arrested during Sadat Early septem crackdown on sectarian extremists land other opposition in the scores of officers and soldiers with extremist religious affiliations have been cashiered and Mili tary sources say Security officials Are intensely interrogating Many others at All stamping out extremism in the Wake of the spectacular assassination of Sadat by a still unknown number of alleged moslem fundamentalists at a military Parade it is hardly surprising that the new govern ment has started off with a mailed fist to crush the extremist the movement has grown rapidly and has come to pose a threat not Only to the political establishment but also to the Western oriented lifestyle of upper Middle class egyptians whom my Barakhat suddenly been thrown into the role of Sadat already had begun a crack Down on the islamic right but he alien ated Many Middle class elements when he expanded the crackdown to include detention of personal enemies and critics As this gave the impression he was indulging in a personal vendetta and ending his troubled Experiment in after years of allowing the islamic militants free rein to build up their forces and their Appeal in an unsettled egyptian his measures came As a setting off tremors still rippling through the the legacies Mubarak has inherited from the Sadat Era Are not Only must the new president Deal with mounting social and economic ten sectarian strife and the Consoli Dation of his own Power he also is faced with a major Challenge from the militant islamist who have made Clear their readiness to take up arms against the Mubarak has adopted a Tough policy that amounts to a Declara Tion of War on these moslem Fana his Interior Ismail has publicly interpreted the per cent vote for Mubarak in the presiden tial referendum As a popular mandate to liquidate the moslem the chief question within Western embassies and among other analysts Here is just How serious a threat these extremists pose there is som fear that this normally easygoing nation might be headed for a Syria style armed confrontation Between Security forces and islamist using the tactics of Urban guerrilla no outsiders know the intentions of the hardcore extremists or even their reporters who have visited the mosques on the fridays since Sadat assassination have noted a near total absence of the Robed and bearded militant this seems to indicate they have gone underground to hide or making it even More difficult to judge their estimates of their Overall strength vary shortly before his said the government had a list of belonging to one Organiza Tion the University based islamic diplomatic sources and other analysts offer guesstimates of the size of the hard ranging from to this seems a tiny minority in a country of 42 million but their by All accounts and visible is far greater than the numbers reaching into the Small Vil Lages of the Nile Delta and deep into the Urban Middle one serious obstacle to gauging their strength and intentions even for egyptian Security the nature of the islamic resurgence the movement is not directed or led by a single hierarchical Structure like the old moslem it is fragmented into hundreds of Small each owing allegiance to its own or and apparently capable of acting on its thus it is As the govern ment that the group that gunned Down Sadat acted on its even though a Leader belonged to the larger islamic fundamentalist Taksir a Hijra atonement and flight from the government says there is no evidence the islamic extremists involved in the uprising in 240 Miles South of just after Sadat were coordinating their action with the it is the prevailing thesis among Western embassies including the that the islamic extremists do not have widespread sup port from the bulk of we were quite convinced there was a Large and growing fundamentalist remarked one american but while it didst have the support of the body politic and some egyptians were definitely turned off by the As Well As most other Western missions says it still believes the extremists have no widespread in the midst of the fear and Uncer Egypt is experiencing the mailed fist in the mailed Dainty gripping Many egyptians after Sadat Mubarak seems to be serving As a rallying particularly for the upper Middle his Strong measures and seemingly Force Ful military character have reassured a badly shaken society that Egypt is not about to turn into another Lebanon or to lend an air of Mubarak has kept Sadat Cabinet and has pledged to fulfil the same promises of peace and Prosperity Sadat repeatedly made to the this and the smooth and rapid transition from one ruler to another seem to have had a soporific the trauma of Sadat shocking murder already seems a Distant Nightmare to Many that a Young egyptian re marked nonchalantly of Sadat assassination As he sat lazily watching a soccer game Friday at Cairns Plush gezira club while his wife and three Small children strolled beneath the Banyan the Accident was Terri but life goes this government must be Consoli said one obviously worried French speaking lawyer who said he knew immediately it must have been moslem fanatics that shot Sadat be cause egyptian leftists Lack the suicidal Streak to do you americans must do everything to support it if you dont want another even to the Point of sending he even Many Lowe class egyptians seem to Welcome Mubarak As a badly needed strongman in a time of National seeing in him shades of the country greatest popular the late Gamal Abdel Mubarak belongs to the upper Middle which stands to lose the most from either a Triumph of the islamic fundamentalists or a turning away from the consume oriented society Sadat began with his open door policy encouraging foreign investment and allowing increased Western a general and former bomber Mubarak was a member of elite military corps spoiled by higher salaries and Perks even in the austere times of Nasser one of the Many differences egyptians note Between Mubarak and is that their new Leader is not involved in the tangle of big business deals As Sadat was reputed to be through his close association Wilh Osman Ahmed egy pcs wealthiest Mubarak is regarded As having clean hands in that j equilibrium is the goal if preserving the social and economic status quo from the righting fanatical fringe is Mubarak immediate and most pressing the Lon term one remains establishing some kind Cef equilibrium Between the resurgence islam and the forces of westernization pulling this nation in such different egyptians May not approve of the violent methods of the moslem Fana but they Are by nature a deeply religious extremely sensitive to the fundamentalist Call for a return to the one indication Appeal has been the reappearance of the veil and other traditional forms of dress among Middle class City another has been the rapid spread of private which can be found on in building corridors and in in september Sadat announced the state was taking Over the to private Mubarak is Likely to continue Sadat Effort 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