(EOZ) Al Arabiya has an interesting article:
More tolerance prevailed, linking religion to state never seemed
that necessary, and the Muslim Brotherhood were the only Islamist group
in 1954, whereas
in 2011 moderation is quickly diminishing,
fanatical interpretations of Islam are gaining ground, and another
religious faction emerged as the Brotherhood’s rival and has become more
popular in the Egyptian street: the Salafis.
A 1954 beauty pageant is a simple, but important, example of the absence
of religious fanaticism at the time. In that year, Egyptians chose
Antigone Costanda, an Alexandrian of Greek origin, to be Miss Egypt, and
in the same year she was crowned Miss World and
appeared on stage dressed in a bathing suit in the ceremony held in London. (MORE)
