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Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/middle_east/egypts-most-extreme-hardliners-dubbed-takfiris-have-multiplied-in-a-revival-in-sinai/2012/08/15/b4181b16-e6a6-11e1-9739-eef99c5fb285_story.html

Egypt's Extreme Hardliners Have Multiplied in Sinai

(AP-Washington Post) Followers of the group known as Takfir wil-Hijra dream of a puritanical Islamic state in Sinai. Takfir wil-Hijra has swelled in numbers in recent months, multiplying from a few hundred faithful before last year's popular uprising to at least 4,500 in northern Sinai, according to security officials and local Bedouin tribal leaders.

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