Egypt's 'Unknown Army' Wages War in Islam's Name : Extremism:
The government seems paralyzed as nation faces an alarming wave
of sectarian violence.   MANSHIET NASSER, Egypt — It started a
few years ago in this verdant village of date palms, barley
fields and slow-footed water buffalo. Maybe it started the day
Gamal Farghali Haridi came home from the university with a beard
and a new way of talking.  He spoke of God and how a good Muslim
life ought to be lived. His friends grew beards too, and things
started changing in the village. For example, the singing and
dancing at weddings that once were a staple of social life here
ended because Haridi said they were haraam --against religion.
Haridi formed a branch of the Gamaat Islamiya, a shadowy
religious organization that killed Egyptian President Anwar
Sadat in 1981. The Gamaat became the law in Manshiet Nasser:
Christian shopkeepers were assessed thousands of pounds for the
privilege of doing business in the village. A man's hand was
broken when he was caught