How a repressive regime led an Egyptian to explore jihad on the Internet

Ahmed Abdellahy, a 33-year-old Egyptian, found religious extremism — and then found his way back out — a decade ago, well before the purveyors of extremist ideologies had proliferated across social media, and well before the 2011 Arab Spring uprisings shook open some of the Middle East’s most repressive autocracies and opened wide the fissures […]

Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2016/05/05/how-a-repressive-regime-led-an-egyptian-to-explore-jihad-on-the-internet/