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by Shireen Qudosi • June 3, 2017
at 5:00 am
- When
it comes to regional interests in the Middle East, the
priority is the most dominant and violent force.
- Egypt
stands out as a primary target, given the cocktail of
challenges that position it as a center of radical Islam.
Egypt faces political, violent, and theological militancy
within its borders.
- For
a nation to do what it must to survive, it needs the steadfast
support of world powers. Step one is annihilating all sources
of violent Islam.
Egyptian
President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi (front row, far-right) attended the
May 21 Arab Islamic American Summit in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, along
with U.S. President Donald Trump (front-center). The problems of
Islamic extremism and terrorism were much-discussed at the summit.
(Photo by Thaer Ghanaim/PPO via Getty Images)
For a Western audience, Egyptian President Abdel
Fattah al-Sisi is a complex figure, who was shunned by the Obama
administration. There appear truly pressing, immediate priorities
in Egypt, such as developing the economy and combating the
avalanche of extremist attempts to overthrow him. Among Middle East
and North African territories, Egypt stands out as a primary
target, given the cocktail of challenges that position it as a
center of radical Islam.
President Sisi faces violent extremist hotbeds in
the Sinai Peninsula, and the still-destabilizing influence of the
Muslim Brotherhood (a political arm of violent radicals). Most
notably, Sisi brought a reality check to the Arab Spring when he
led the military overthrow of the Muslim Brotherhood government in
2013, ushering a spiritual and cultural Islamic reformation with
widespread popular support from Egyptians on a grass-roots level.
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