Muslim leaders: We want an Islamic state
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Muslim leaders: We want an Islamic state
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Tue, 10/05/2011 - 19:32
A number of religious leaders representing Muslim movements have announce that the recent cooperation between various religious trends points to a common desire for a religious state that applies God’s laws.
They also said that they would form a coalition at the next parliamentary elections in order to combat the secular political forces in the country.
“It was the recent attacks on the Islamic groups that brought us together,” said leading Muslim Brotherhood member Sobhi Saleh.
For his part, Salafi spokesman Abdel Moneim al-Shahat said Islamic movements are uniting in order to preserve the Islamic nature of Egypt.
“God’s words must rule and Islam must be in the hearts of the citizens,” said Jama'a al-Islamiya spokesman Osama Hafez.
“The Islamic movements are uniting, despite their different ideologies, because they feel Islam is threatened,” said Muslim Brotherhood lawyer Montasser al-Zayat.
Amr al-Shobky, expert at the Al-Ahram Center for Political and Strategic Studies, said that this religious cooperation is a demonstration of power, and that it reflects the imbalanced political scale, which is tilted towards the Islamic movements.
Translated from the Arabic Edition
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To govern a country does not need the Muslim or Coptic religion. If your religion commands in a country like ours we are lost. For our country to grow, continue later upgraded our future president must be a modern Muslim, that his main interest is the country and its problems as unemployment, terrorism, etc. We need Egypt to be a free and democratic country, that the laws are equal for all. And most of that human rights are respected in any religious group is Muslim or Coptic. The best solution that this country can do is to be a secular country to move ahead and that the Muslim extremist Islamic fundamentalism does not apply in this country. I do not believe that young Muslims are in line to see their country destroyed, dirty, lack of cleanliness by the authorities. And that tourism in our country grow as before. That Egypt is an internationally free and democratic country where the future know about our country are young, we want evr Egypt as Italy or canada, clean with equal rights