Salafi Dawa Vice-Chief Yasser Borhamy said Salafi Dawa leaders and its political arm the Nour Party are being insulted continuously by Muslim Brotherhood youth on the streets and in mosques and now they have “started gathering in front of our houses and making several threats.”
He called on Brotherhood leaders to order their youth to stop following members of the Salafi Dawa and Nour Party. He said, “The Brotherhood leaders watch their youth planning their campaigns against us on social media platforms,” although they are able to stop them.
In a statement on Tuesday, the Nour Party said, ”The Brotherhood staged marches led by figures known to the Salafis at Abu Kebeer in Sharqiya. These marches passed by mosques affiliated to the Salafi Dawa and its leaders' houses. They [the marches] tried to assault them through insults.” The statement added that Brotherhood figures took part in the attack against the main mosque of the Salaf Dawa in Herbeit village, near to the homes of Salafi Dawa figures.
“A well-known Brotherhood figure called Salah Shahin shouted insults and treason accusations against the Salafi Dawa figures,” the statement added.
The Nour Party’s supreme party member Ahmed Shafiq said that “the Brotherhood's verbal attacks on Salafi Dawa members and leaders at the governorate [Sharqiya] will not affect the party’s campaign for rallies to vote ‘yes’ on constitutional amendments.” He added that the Brotherhood's actions are not in line with Islamic morals.
Edited translation from Al-Masry Al-Youm
