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DAY IN PHOTOS Best pictures from the past 24 hours: http://bit.ly/zHsBp7 Train derailment, flaming tiles, and an Iranian couple.
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More awesome reads you missed from Saturday’s Globe and Mail:
In post-revolution Egypt Islamists threaten to outmanoeuvre secularists, evoking Iran in 1979
Patrick Martin writes:
There was a moment Friday in the Egyptian capital when the people’s vaunted uprising brought to mind Tehran in 1979: Just when the left-wing secularists thought they had ousted the Shah, the Islamists ousted them.
Hundreds of thousands of ultra-religious Islamists packed this capital’s central Tahrir Square in an unprecedented show of support for the creation of an Islamic republic, rather than the planned unity demonstration in collaboration with secularists. In doing so, they drove a stake through the heart of a united revolutionary movement that had brought together Egyptian Islamists and secularists, Muslims and Christians, and shared the goal of democratic elections and the punishment of the corrupt regime of Hosni Mubarak.
