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Special Report: Egypt Deploys Scholars to Teach Moderate Islam, but Skepticism Abounds

Mahmoud Mourad and Yara Bayoumi, REUTERS   CAIRO (Reuters) โ€” In his battle against militant Islam, Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi is relying not just on bomber planes and soldiers but on white-turbaned clerics from Al-Azhar, Egyptโ€™s 1,000-year-old center for Islamic learning. He wants clerics to counter radicalism in the classroom. In a televised speech […]

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