Two Egyptian Christians who converted to Islam alledge they were taken advantage by the Egyptian Islamic Labor Party of in order to further the pro-Muslim Brotherhood political cause.
After converting to Islam, Ahmed Mohammed Ahmed, a former doctor at Khanka hospital, and Mohammed al-Shammas, a government employee, say they did not face any major problems with their families, neighbors or even colleagues at work, but the two preferred to leave their jobs and find a new social circle.
They tried to find news opportunities for a job to pay for necessities, like food. During their job hunt they met with a members of the Egyptian Islamic Labor Party, who convinced them to take them to the party headquarters to provide financial and moral help.
There, they discovered the party leaders attempted to take advantage of them politically, in return for shelter and some money to live on.
They were received by Magdy Hussein, head of the party, and Ahmed al-Kholy, head of the Political Bureau of the Party, who provided them with a hotel room overlooking the Nile to stay overnight, and a pledge to provide them with care, and all ways to ensure security and stability until providing an apartment for them, which was achieved only after two days of accommodation at the hotel.
Ahmed, the doctor, says that all that has changed when then refused to wave the Rabea al-Adaweya four-finger sign, in support of the Muslim Brotherhood, and refused to say that 30 June was a military coup, in a press conference held for them.
Shammas goes on saying that the party leaders dedicated a whole page about him and his companion in the party's newspaper Al-Shaab, hinting they are members of the Pro-Muslim Brotherhood National Alliance to Support Legitimacy.
"All these things were strong motives for us to insist on the rejection of all those methods, and our rejection for compromising our principles. We raise the flag of disobedience in the face of Hussein, which was met with us expelled from the apartment in the middle of the night, and seizing all our personal belongings, and threatening us in case our story was revealed to the media."
The two say they converted believing Egypt was a free country, with freedom of religion. They were convinced by the tolerance of Islam, not love in the currents of political Islam. They wanted to stay away from politics and just work for charities.
Edited translation from Al-Masry Al-Youm
