The Freedom and Justice Party, the political arm of Egypt's Muslim
Brotherhood, won 235 or 47.2 percent of the seats in the People's
Assembly (lower house of parliament), a senior party official said in a
press statement on Saturday.
Meanwhile, the even more radical Salafists' Nour Party got 125 seats
or 25.1 percent, chairman of the party Emad Abdel Ghafour stated.
Salafist jihadists are extremist Sunnis who believe they are the only
true interpreters of the Koran. They are beginning to concern
counterterrorism experts since Salafists are gaining more and more power
in Egypt following the ouster of President Mubarak.
In Gaza, Salafist jihadists consider Hamas too moderate in spite of Hamas' terrorist tactics.
But even with these victories, both parties' leaders instigated a
demonstration in which hundreds of Egyptians flocked to Tahrir Square in
central Cairo Friday to participate in a protest calling on the
military authorities to grant their demands.
After the midnoon prayer, hundreds of people gathered at different
districts of the capital, and then headed to Tahrir Square, causing
traffic paralysis in the downtown area.
The demonstrators called on the head of the Supreme Council of the
Armed Forces (SCAF) Hussein Tantawi to hand over power to civilians,
with some of them demanding that former President Hosni Mubarak be
executed.
The protestors demanded that the ruling military council shift power
to a civilian government comprised of groups such as the Muslim
Brotherhood and the Salafists.
"Salafism jihadism combines a deep respect for the sacred texts with a
devotion to a literal interpretation. Salifists have an absolute
commitment to jihad, and their number-one target is America, perceived
as the greatest enemy of their faith," according to counterterrorism
expert Neal Ahearn, a former police commander of an anti-terrorism unit.
The protesters also called for stopping military trials against
civilians and forming a 50-member advisory council chaired by political
activist Ahmed Harara, the medical doctor who was blinded during the
civil unrest in 2011.
The leaders of the protest announced that they would stage a sit-in
and stage a one-million-man protest next Wednesday in front of the
hospital in which former President Mubarak is receiving treatment.
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