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“I dream of being a police officer and inspecting women’s veils,” Gihad Abdo says, amid speculation from some people that Islamists hid weapons in loose-fitting clothing during protests in August 2013 to avoid detection. Abdo recites nationalist songs from her schoolbook, as her father Abdo joins her, at their house in Qasr al-Shamea, Old Cairo. Her father was badly beaten in Tahrir Square in August 2013 for voicing pro-government views while selling stone figures during an Islamist protest.