MaxShimba
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Ishaq Ibrahim, a researcher at the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights (EIPR), says reports of incidents began after the 2011 uprising that toppled dictator Hosni Mubarak. Witnesses have reported seeing "bearded zealots" threaten women they deem dressed immodestly, break up parties playing "un-Islamic" music, vandalise shops selling alcohol, and in one case, chop off the ear of a man accused of abetting immorality.
Ibrahim says evidence is circumstantial, as only a few of the perpetrators have been caught, but the attacks appear to be the work of ultraconservative Salafi Muslims.
http://www.ipsnews.net/2012/12/islamist-vigilantes-begin-to-police-egypt/