anwar sadat

In 1981, an attempt to assassinate Egyptian President Sadat occurred in what is known as the platform incident at a later time, but it was unfortunate for the shooter and the good fortune of the President of Egypt, an Egyptian soldier managed to discover the man who tried to assassinate Sadat...

I've been reading Karen Armstrong's Fields of Blood: Religion and the History of Violence, and just read the section on Sadat's assassination and the rise of Islamism in Egypt. In the assassination, Egyptian soldier Khalid Islambouli managed to get to the presidential stands while throwing...