'Daesh spreading to the Sinai was a key part of Sisi's sales pitch, to the West, as someone who was ‘fighting terrorism’ and the general idea that tyranny is the only answer to terrorist chaos.' Opinion | Sam Hamad
by Human Rights Watch has for the first time detailed the extent of the crimes committed by the Sisi regime in the Sinai peninsula.
In addition to this, the Daesh-affiliated Wilayat Sina group practices its cruelties against populations that resist it. The world was made well aware in 2017 of theby the group on the El Rawda mosque, which claimed over 300 lives and which is eclipsed only by the regime’s massacre of pro-democracy protesters as the most deadly massacre in Egypt’s modern history.
But while precious little of substance is known about the inner workings of Wilayat Sina, one aspect of the group is beyond doubt: its very existence, in its current form, can beOf course, its predecessors were present in the Sinai before the overthrow of democracy by Sisi, but the coup was the impetus the group needed to unify disparate forces under its banner and gain official status as an affiliate of Daesh.
Flagrant discrimination and neglect have led to a situation where the local population harbours a festering hatred towards the Egyptian government and what might be called the majority-Egyptian culture.
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