Sadat’s assassination drew little public grief in Egypt

Evidence

But there were smaller, more radical and jihadist groups in the country too. In 1981 one of them murdered Anwar Sadat in front of the whole country, and not too many people cared. — Vincent Bevins, If We Burn, 209

Categorization

  • XREF: connects to: Sadat weaponized Islam domestically and was later killed by those forces — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 232

Broader Connections