Were it not for his bushy beard and trim moustache, Nader Bakkar could be mistaken for one of Egypt's secular liberal politicians. The young spokesman for the Nour party is tolerant, reasonable and smart-he is about to begin a fellowship at Harvard. "We are reformers, not revolutionaries," Mr Bakkar (pictured left) says of his party. "Compromise is not a bad word." But his facial hair conveys a different message. Mr Bakkar and his party adhere to the ultra-conservative brand of Sunni Islam known as Salafism.
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