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These principles were instilled in the members by the frequent elections that the Boys’ Department ran for all its positions. The elections gave every member of the group the chance to participate in the running of its affairs. I ran for many of these positions. During the election campaigns that I conducted, I learned how to present a case, conduct a debate, and accept the will of the majority. Engaging in sports was of paramount importance to me. I reached a high degree of proficiency in basketball and volleyball and, to a lesser degree, in tennis.
This makes them easy prey for extremist movements, whose history goes back to the Middle Ages when Ibn Taymiya (1263–1328), the Muslim theologian, laid down their foundation with his fatwas (religious edicts), which are still reverberating to this day. All these movements share common traits. They are secretive and have a jargon of their own awash with slogans. Their members are taught to obey their assigned leaders and to follow strict rules that are intended to drill into them the belief that they live in a hostile and unjust world of non-believers who do not wish them 42 | THE FORMATIVE YEARS Science and Politics in Egypt 4/10/04 0:00 Page 43 well.
During that period the king frequently used his authority to dissolve parliament and to discharge the majority Wafd government from office. Not a single parliament during this period finished its term and there is even one that was dissolved on the very day it was elected (the parliament of March 12, 1925). Many stayed for less than a year. The Wafd party, which won the majority of seats in every election that was conducted during the thirty-year period between 1923 and 1952 (with the exception of the 1938 elections that it boycotted), was only allowed to stay in power for a total of less than seven years.