Abdel Fattah el-Sisi and Emmanuel Macron Egypt sentences former presidential candidate to 15 years . The former presidential candidate is one of at least 60,000 political prisoners estimated to have been jailed since Sisi took power in a coup in 2013.
“The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion (to which few members of other civilizations were converted) but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact; non-Westerners never do.” —Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilisation and the Remaking of the World Order, 1996, p. 51