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US: Egypt’s Islamists Must Respect Minorities

posted on August 1, 2012

After visiting Egypt, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton remarked that Egyptians continue to wrestle with the issue of religious liberty following the election of President Mohammed Morsi, Bradley Klapper reports for The Associated Press. The State Department recently released its annual report on religious freedom around the world, which “highlighted blasphemy and religious ‘defamation’ laws in Muslim countries,” writes Klapper. In regards to Egypt, Clinton said, “We are going to judge by actions, not words, and the actions are just at the very beginning stages.”

Read at The Associated Press