Voting for Amr Moussa or Ahmed Shafiq in the presidential elections is against Sharia law, Moneir Gomaa, a Muslim Brotherhood leader and member of the International Union for Muslim Scholars, said on Friday.
He said as it would be considered "a cooperation with [Moussa and Shafiq] in their sins and transgressions, a reliance on wrong-doers, an abandonment of honest [people] and a dishonesty [on the part of the voter]."
Gomaa said in a fatwa published on Ikhwan online website: "As the presidential elections approach, each Muslim has to clarify and explain the importance of these elections, as two members of the former regime are running in the elections with a strange boldness, as if they were reformers."
He said "we cannot waste the blood of the martyrs and the wounded, and be ungrateful to the orphans and widows in pain, through returning the same faces and reinstating the desperate situation that the revolution broke out to get rid of."
"The right is bright, and the wrong is stammering. The one who does not support what is right today has supported the wrong," he said.
Of Moussa and Shafiq he said: "Their miserable history is known to whoever has eyes. They never were keen on public freedoms, on denouncing the widespread injustice, on claiming the lost rights of the people, or on working on upholding Islam and Muslims. They were fully supportive of the corruptive and criminals."
Edited translation from Al-Masry Al-Youm
