I was only a bit nervous when Morsi, an Egyptian president for a short time after Mubarak, let a group of Muslim Brotherhood operatives out of prison. The truth is that Essam hated the Brotherhood; he thought Islamists were a bunch of pansies. He was actually aligned with a more militant group in Egypt called Al Jihad, who were the Egyptian wing of Al Qaeda. Both Islamists and jihadis have the same goal—to spread Islam, but they have different methods. Islamists want to do this through passive means such as politics, immigration, and childbirth. However, jihadis prefer the method used by the
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