{"id":3447,"date":"2025-02-02T04:03:51","date_gmt":"2025-02-02T04:03:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/egypt-fears-syrias-revolutionary-fervor-could-be-contagious\/"},"modified":"2025-02-02T04:03:51","modified_gmt":"2025-02-02T04:03:51","slug":"egypt-fears-syrias-revolutionary-fervor-could-be-contagious","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/egypt-fears-syrias-revolutionary-fervor-could-be-contagious\/","title":{"rendered":"Egypt Fears Syria\u2019s Revolutionary Fervor Could Be Contagious"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-0\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Soon after Islamist rebels overthrew the authoritarian president of Syria, Bashar al-Assad, a hashtag gathered steam on Egyptian social media: \u201cIt\u2019s your turn, dictator.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The message for President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi of Egypt was unmistakable. But he hardly needed the warning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Since the ouster of Syria\u2019s longtime dictator on Dec. 8, Egyptian leaders have watched events in the Syrian capital, Damascus, with grim-faced vigilance, knowing well that revolutionary fire has a tendency to spread.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Both countries have had a turbulent history since the Arab Spring uprisings that started in late 2010 and spread across the Middle East.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-1\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The Syrian revolt culminated almost 14 years later with Mr. al-Assad\u2019s fall. The Egyptian revolution deposed the country\u2019s longtime authoritarian president, Hosni Mubarak, and saw an Islamist political party come to power in the country\u2019s first free elections. Mr. el-Sisi seized power two years later in a military takeover, and he and like-minded leaders in the Persian Gulf and beyond remain <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/01\/03\/world\/middleeast\/syria-saudi-arabia-uae.html\" title=\"\">wary<\/a> of Islamist groups gaining any power in the region, as they just did in Syria.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Days after Mr. al-Assad fled Syria for Russia, Egyptian security forces arrested at least 30 Syrian refugees living in Cairo who were spontaneously celebrating <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/article\/syria-civil-war-rebels.html\" title=\"\">his fall<\/a>, according to the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights, a rights group.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The Egyptian authorities also made it harder for Syrians to travel to Egypt in the aftermath of Mr. al-Assad\u2019s overthrow, requiring most to obtain security clearances first.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-2\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Mr. el-Sisi has given unusually frequent addresses in recent weeks to defend his record.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cMy hands have never been stained with anyone\u2019s blood, and I have never taken anything that wasn\u2019t mine,\u201d he said in December, a week after Mr. al-Assad fell.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-3\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In doing so, he seemed to draw a contrast with the deposed Syrian leader while brushing aside his own human rights record, including a massacre by the Egyptian military forces that he led of what rights groups say were at least 817 people protesting Mr. el-Sisi\u2019s takeover of power in 2013.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Since the rebels in Syria seized power, Egypt has <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amnesty.org.au\/repression-ahead-of-human-rights-record-review-egypt\/\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">arrested<\/a> or began prosecuting several people considered political opponents, including the <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amnesty.org\/en\/latest\/news\/2025\/01\/egypt-prominent-human-rights-defender-hossam-bahgat-summoned-for-interrogations\/\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">director<\/a> of a prominent rights group, the wife of a detained political cartoonist and a TikTok user who had been posting videos critical of Mr. el-Sisi. Egypt already was holding an estimated tens of thousands of <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2022\/07\/16\/world\/middleeast\/egypt-prisoners.html\" title=\"\">political prisoners<\/a>, many of them Islamists.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cTwo thousand and eleven is only 14 years away,\u201d said Mirette F. Mabrouk, an Egypt expert at the Middle East Institute in Washington, referring to the year of the Egyptian revolution. The Egyptian authorities, she said, \u201cknow that things snowball.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">After years of deepening <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/01\/09\/world\/middleeast\/egypt-economy-refugees.html\" title=\"\">economic misery<\/a> across Egypt, Mr. el-Sisi was already in an acutely vulnerable position. Any hint that Egyptians could catch Syrians\u2019 revolutionary fervor spells trouble \u2014 not because Egyptians want armed revolt, Ms. Mabrouk said, but because it could take very little for their disgruntlement to explode into protest.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The most visible attempt to capitalize on the moment has come from Ahmed al-Mansour, an Egyptian who left the country to fight with Syrian rebels years ago. After Mr. al-Assad\u2019s ouster, he repeatedly ranted against Mr. el-Sisi online from Damascus.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-4\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cYou\u2019re worth one bullet,\u201d Mr. al-Mansour said of Mr. el-Sisi in a <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/sweed_08\/status\/1878854550045782253\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">video<\/a> posted on X. It was viewed 1.5 million times.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-5\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The threat sent Egypt\u2019s TV anchors, who often amplify pro-government talking points on their nightly broadcasts, into an uproar. One host, Ahmed Moussa, called on Syria\u2019s new leaders to act.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cThey must tell us if they are with what is happening in the targeting of our country or not,\u201d he <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=QhlQIf2OBIw\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">warned<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Shortly after his tirade in mid-January, the new Syrian authorities arrested Mr. al-Mansour along with several associates. He was detained on his way to a meeting with the country\u2019s interim defense minister, according to a statement from the anti-Sisi movement Mr. al-Mansour founded.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-6\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">It is unclear whether Egyptian authorities had pushed for his arrest.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Mr. al-Mansour\u2019s group urged the Syrian authorities to release him, saying that the Egyptian people were exercising their rights against Mr. el-Sisi just as Syrians had done against Mr. al-Assad. His current status is unknown.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">But even with Mr. al-Mansour silenced for now, other Egyptians are unlikely to stop complaining.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Many have soured on Mr. el-Sisi after years of economic crises, the most recent of which was <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/10\/27\/world\/middleeast\/with-economy-reeling-from-ukraine-war-egypt-secures-3-billion-imf-loan.html\" title=\"\">triggered by<\/a> the successive shocks of the wars in Ukraine and Gaza. But the problems are also rooted in government mismanagement and overspending, including on grandiose megaprojects.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">With Egypt deep in debt and losing revenue, the currency has <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/03\/05\/world\/middleeast\/egypt-economic-crisis-gold-price.html\" title=\"\">crashed<\/a>, some goods have become difficult to find and <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2023\/01\/23\/world\/middleeast\/egypt-economy.html\" title=\"\">inflation<\/a> has soared.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Such hardships have <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/09\/01\/world\/middleeast\/egypt-economic-crisis.html\" title=\"\">suffocated<\/a> a population of about 111 million where nearly one in three already lived in poverty, according to official statistics.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-7\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Mr. el-Sisi has tried to shield himself from criticism, saying in a recent speech that the country was already in bad financial shape when he took over in 2013 and that Egypt\u2019s rapid population growth had made it difficult to provide for his citizens. But he had spent years boasting of the prosperity he would bring to Egypt \u2014 prosperity that never came, even as he inaugurated a costly <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/10\/08\/world\/middleeast\/egypt-new-administrative-capital.html\" title=\"\">new capital city<\/a> complete with a gleaming presidential palace.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-8\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cPeople are seriously discontented, and therefore he\u2019s trying out there to just tamp things down,\u201d Ms. Mabrouk said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In the beginning, many hailed the president as a hero and savior for using military force to oust the Muslim Brotherhood, the Islamist political party that won the presidency following the 2011 Egyptian revolution but went on to alienate much of the population.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Mr. el-Sisi spent the ensuing years stamping out the Brotherhood in Egypt, viewing it as a threat to his power. Egyptian authorities prosecuted thousands of Brotherhood members and suspected sympathizers, labeling them terrorists, while others have fled the country.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Even weakened, political Islamists remain a popular target for Mr. el-Sisi and his supporters, who frequently invoke the dangers of political Islam.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-9\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">So it was unsurprising when the Egyptian authorities sounded a note of caution about the lightning rise of Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, the Islamist rebel group that has taken charge in Syria. The group was once affiliated with Al Qaeda but has disavowed its extremist origins.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Egypt may have had little love for Mr. al-Assad, analysts said, but it had come to prefer the brittle stability he represented to the chaos and conflict that surround Egypt in Libya, Sudan and Gaza.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-10\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">It has therefore approached relations with the new Syria gingerly.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Unlike other Arab countries, Egypt has not yet held <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/middle-east\/emirati-syrian-foreign-ministers-discuss-bolstering-ties-uae-visit-2025-01-06\/\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">high-level meetings<\/a> with Syrian officials.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Diplomats in Cairo say Egyptian officials have privately urged other governments to remain wary of Syria\u2019s new leadership and not to lift penalties on the country too quickly. They spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-11\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Egypt\u2019s foreign minister, Badr Abdelatty, has <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/english.ahram.org.eg\/NewsContent\/1\/1234\/538398\/Egypt\/Foreign-Affairs\/Syria-must-not-become-a-hub-for-terrorist-groups-E.aspx\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">called<\/a> on regional and international partners to ensure that \u201cSyria does not become a source of regional instability or a haven for terrorist groups.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Mahmoud Badr, an Egyptian pro-government activist who helped foster the anti-Muslim Brotherhood protest movement that paved the way for Mr. el-Sisi\u2019s ascension, said on X soon after Hayat Tahrir al-Sham swept into Damascus that the group and the Brotherhood were indistinguishable.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cIt\u2019s all part of one network and no one can convince us otherwise,\u201d he said, citing widely circulated photos that showed the leader of the Syrian group meeting with a prominent Egyptian member of the Brotherhood.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">And though anti-Islamist sentiment remains strong among Egyptians, so does anti-Sisi sentiment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cIt comes at a very bad time for Sisi,\u201d said Broderick McDonald, an associate fellow at Kings College London\u2019s International Center for the Study of Radicalization.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     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