Why was sadat assassinated?

Answer 1

Sadat's unpopular domestic and international policies, his role of superstar of the western media due to what was seen as his subordination to American and Israeli strategy was purchased at the price of alienation from the Arab world. This combined with charges of corruption and repression at home led fatefully to the conspiracy against him with the resulting assassination.

His signing of a peace agreement at Camp david with Menachem Begin for Israel was seen as a betrayal of the sad plight of the Palestinians suffering Israeli oppression, land theft and ethnic cleansing. Many Arabs believed that only a unified Arab stance and the threat of force would persuade Israel to negotiate a settlement of the Palestinian issue that would satisfy Palestinian demands for a homeland. Without Egypt's military power, the threat of force evaporated because no single Arab state was strong enough militarily to confront Israel alone. Thus, the Arabs felt betrayed and dismayed that the Palestinian issue, the core of the Arab-Israeli conflict, would remain an unresolved, destabilizing force in the region.

The agreement with Israel brought peace to Egypt but not prosperity. With no real improvement in the economy, Sadat became increasingly unpopular. His isolation in the Arab world was matched by his increasing remoteness from the mass of Egyptians. While Sadat's critics in the Arab world remained beyond his reach, increasingly he reacted to criticism at home by expanding censorship and jailing his opponents. Sadat subjected the Egyptians to a series of referenda on his actions and proposals that he invariably won by more than 99 percent of the vote. In May 1980, an impressive, nonpartisan body of citizens charged Sadat with superseding his own constitution.

In the months leading up to the assassination Sadat had lost much of his support at home and in the West due to a brutal crackdown on fundamentalists. In June 1981 tensions between Muslims and Copts in Egypt exploded into a gruesome round of violence in the overcrowded Cairo slum of al-Zawiyya al-Hamra, precipitated by intense summer heat coupled with frequent cutoffs in the water supply. Men, women, and children were slaughtered.

Egypt and the world were horrified by these events. Tensions continued to mount as Muslims and Christians blamed one another in inflammatory press accounts. In September, Sadat cracked down on both sides with mass arrests and brutal police tactics. The powerful Islamic student associations were banned on September 3; their leaders were arrested and roughed up. The head of the Coptic Church, Pope Shenuda III, was banished to a monastery.

At his funeral the following American dignitaries were in attendance: three former presidents: Jimmy Carter, Gerald Ford and Richard Nixon. Among the other members of the American delegation to the funeral: Secretary of State Alexander M. Haig Jr., Defense Secretary Caspar W. Weinberger and former secretary of state Henry Kissinger.

Answer 2

no one liked him

Answer 3

Penises.