READER COMMENTS

Islam is the solution for all of the problems plaguing confused societies. This is because the current generation of the Muslims will not find solutions for their affairs other than through that which our forerunners and companions of the prophet used to find solutions for their affairs.

I love Ahmed Shafiq because he is a sincere man. God willing, if he becomes the president, he will make it the best country. God protect Egypt. Ahmed Shafiq, Ahmed Shafiq, Ahmed Shafiq. I hope we all elect Ahmed Shafiq and vote for Ahmed Shafiq.

Yes, I am with Amr Moussa and against the so-called Muslim Brotherhood for the following reasons: 1- they try to bribe the poor and ignorant Egyptians with the money, foods and clothes, which is prohibited, as both the briber and the bribee would go to hell. 2- They lied to the people and said that they will not nominate a president for the state from them, but their love for power and money made them nominate a spare-tire president and lie. 3- They deceived the Egyptian people, especially the youth through playing on the strings of the religion and claiming that they would apply the religious penalties, while they know that the current situation in Egypt is unsuitable and that we cannot apply these penalties because about 50% of the people are below the poverty line. They are liars, bribers, and cheaters. How the honorable Egyptians would trust them and make Egypt a trust in their hands. We have to uncover the distortion of the truths.

There are many candidates who are fair and characterized by good behavior. I personally do not disagree with any candidate; we want someone who will improve the future of our country and we want those who will advance its future. We want to witness freedom in its real meaning, but I prefer the Islamic regime to be represented by the presidential candidate Mohammed Morsi. Mohammed Morsi deserves all the respect and appreciation as all the people agree on him, as he does not want only the interest of his party or group represented in the Muslim Brotherhood, as he is a well-educated person and holds the best certificates from the most popular universities in the world. He is a person who is aware of the practical life and this is what is required to develop Egypt. He worked in politics and was aware of it through the Muslim Brotherhood; he is the man of this time as they described him, not to praise him or because he belongs to the brotherhood, but I think that he is fit to manage this period, so whatever mockery they have for him he will continue his march. But because of his kind heart and emotions we find that he does not like to hear such words about his people. He has a good manner and he is cooperative in his treatment of others.

A set of criteria must be put in place to specify candidacy procedures in order to safeguard the position’s prestige. Doesn’t this position deserve to preserve its prestige, and shouldn’t we be respectful of running for the presidency as much as we are of applying for military, police and judiciary positions? Why make it an option to obtain candidacy forms before gathering 30,000 power-of-attorney signatures or securing the backing of at least 30 MPs? Why make this an option before checking the criminal status of the candidate and before ensuring good conduct of the candidate and his relatives until fourth degree relatives? Why is the maximum age of candidates not specified at 65 years old only? The only good thing is that the minimum age of candidates is specified at 40 years, and that is excellent.

I hope that Abdel Moneim Abu Al Fotouh will succeed. Yet, I really do not know. As Egyptians, we are afraid of the results of the elections and what will happen, especially after we have heard about the decision of the Presidential Election Commission results. The latter has issued a decision that allows citizens to vote for two candidates. This law will serve the interest of Ahmed Shafik and Amr Moussa. In reality, however, we are aware that the Military Council will decide about who should win and who will lose the elections. Indeed, this claim is proven by the discourse and the threats of Ahmed Shafik to Egyptians. They prove that he is the candidate of the Military Council. We have also heard lately that Shafik may leave the room for Amr Moussa after popular pressure. Thus, what is taking place raises our worry about the results of the coming days, particularly if we hear about a plan to deceive Egyptians. A short time ago, we heard that the ballot paper is printed in a special way and that the ink of the pen which is used on the ballot will disappear within twenty four hours. This means that our votes will be illusory and the Military Council will repeat the acts of Mubarak regime. In fact, we feel that there is a conspiracy against Egyptians, but there is not any evidence of it. In this respect, if we examine the candidates, we will notice that Abdel Moneim Abou al-Futouh and Hamdeen are very popular. We have also found that Shafik and Amr Moussa’s presidential campaigns have a lot of donations from unknown sources. If Hamadeen Sabahi has not gotten financial support for his campaign, I wonder if there is more integrity than this. If we equally examine Abul al-Futouh, we notice that his financial funds are far less than Amr Moussa and Ahmed Shafik. In fact, the Presidential Elections Commission has allocated only ten million pounds, bearing in mind that the advertising banners and campaigns of Shafiq and Amr Moussa are far more expensive than that.

I would like to say that the Muslim Brotherhood and the Salafis are not eligible to rule in a country such as Egypt. I hope that they will be contented with Parliament and prove to the Egyptian people their integrity and competence. Governance depends on competence. The good intentions are not enough. In fact, politics are based on shrewdness. They cannot coexist in such an environment. This is my advice to you my fellows and loved ones. I wish you well. Good luck for Egypt

Islam cannot be monopolized by a certain group; I fear the control by the Muslim brotherhood which has become very close to the national party as they move in same step and follow the same approach. The brotherhood and the Salafi parties have better administrative experience than the political ones, and they know nothing about policy except opposing the previous regime, and this was proven in those days. The brotherhood has been controlling most of the seats in the parliament and the Shura council and nominated themselves to the drafting of the constitution and is also dreaming of the presidency. I am fully confident that they will not get it as they have become contemptible to the people. The people who chose them regretted their choice and will not fall into the trap again. I personally will not repeat this fault again as the brotherhood will not fulfill what they promised before, that they would not nominate any of them for the presidency. But then they nominated one of their members in an unjustified way and many of the Christians want to leave the country because they fear being ruled by the brotherhood.

Yes, why can’t the Egyptian people be heroes and do more of the tasks that can be done? I think the future of Egypt is good because the Egyptian people have insisted on an important matter and they must continue their march. I want all the Egyptian people to remain optimistic about what they did since the future of their country is moving towards the best and peace and safety. Through this powerful step, the Egyptian people managed to get rid of Hosni Mubarak and they can form a powerful government. They cannot accept humiliation for themselves; all the matters that the Egyptian people want are easy and I think it is not difficult to achieve. The most important matter is that the Egyptian people are now badly in need of work, building and reconstruction in order to show the world that they are heroes and seeking their interests. I want to say that the youth are the ones who build the future and the Egyptian youth is the best evidence for what they did; God willing, all the matters are going well and I want to say that building, construction, investment, agriculture, industry and all other matters are important so as to show the world that the Arab people are powerful and do not accept humiliation, but on the contrary, they are respectful people who want to reach an advanced stage of progress.

The political process in Egypt is not satisfactory and all matters that are happening there are difficult and cannot be tolerated. The Egyptian people got rid of an evil man because he did not work for goodness and reform, so the Egyptian youth became enraged and got rid of him forever, and he is suffering now from a very bad condition. I wish goodness only for those who work for the interest of Egypt and Egyptian people. The political process now is a competition for the positions and chairs. And what is happening in Egypt is a great negligence that cannot be tolerated, as this matter will bring problems and disaster, but what is most important is they should do their best in order to keep insisting on what they want not what the rulers want; yes, because the ruler is only concerned with how to steal and loot the money of the people and nothing more.

Our faith in Allah makes us always optimistic even if there are a lot of problems that make us aware that we are on the verge of a dark future. The Egyptian elections are not promising as the statements and accusations that come out of the Supreme Commission for Elections about some candidates and distorting their images in order to find a reason to get them out of the competition. It is assumed that the role of that body is the coordination and showing of the results transparently without intervention from them in favor of one of the candidates or distorting the other, but what is happening makes us worried about what would happen in the upcoming elections and many citizens fear the occurrence of fraudulent acts in that election. What we see these days makes a large percentage expect that rigging will happen, and this is very clear as we have seen the former General Intelligence chief who presented his papers at the last minute guarded by the Republican Guard and Special Forces and intelligence officers. And exactly why did such security formalities take place with this candidate? This is what the next few days will reveal. I do not criticize figures here because one is not supposed to judge anyone except through his actions, and I will not convict anyone until I see something that convicts him. But I convict the organizers of the election and its president, who made it clear that they are not characterized by transparency and impartiality, but we see him avoiding this at the expense of the others.

I like the article. Thanks!

I love Egypt.

The Egyptian people have not decided the issue of the next president; they did not even agree on one President. Even the one approved by the majority; his candidacy has been withdrawn from reaching the seat of governance. We find them now perplexed about who will be next in their minds. I see that the junta was involved in the decisions of the Presidential Commission because it wants a particular person to take the reins of the government, so the military junta will come out without punishment and so as not to prove their many convictions that might become clearer if an opposition to them would take over the governance. But what I can confirm is that if, Allah forbid, any manipulation happened in the result, you will find severe consequences that could lead to exciting all the people from all the classes. But their new objective will be to drop the military junta and the result will be that we will be like Syria, but not only this, some countries eyeing Egypt would take advantage of that. Everyone is tempted by the occupation of Egypt because of its abundant wealth that is not apparent due to the thefts that occurred during the previous regime. The legislative powers in the country should look at the consequences that will be a result of any election fraud because that would make the people angry and would put them in a state of chaos, and this would be the reason for the future of Egypt going down a slope that cannot be stopped. May Allah save Egypt and its people from every evil.

We want someone who will fear God and be good to the nation and all the people of Egypt.

All the systems of democracy must have some problems with their first birth and from what I see, this kind of thing is normal because of the different visions among the parties. Such an issue has happened in Egypt and the democratic process is still in its very beginning. The success of such an experiment requires more time and understanding among the various politicians and various political parties and movements. Therefore, I think that the process of true democracy has not been completed to the required level in Egypt and is not ready yet as everyone wishes, especially since many of the segments of the Egyptian people do not know yet what the democratic life is and how we can move it forward away from the tensions or the misuse which damages the democratic process in Egypt, thus making it stalled and facing a lot more problems, especially with the continuation of demonstrations and protests. The most recent one of them was the targeting of the Ministry of Defense and what accompanied it regarding the events that will have a negative impact on Egypt as well as on its stability and the security of its people. The people of Egypt should give the politicians more time, especially with the success of the parliamentary elections. Today, they are preparing for the presidential elections and the issues must be stabilized. Everyone would be working on the success of this democratic experiment and taking it to the shore of success. In my opinion, the democratic process in Egypt, despite the pitfalls it faced, will experience more success and the Egyptian people, the brothers, will be able to move it forward, being educated people aspiring to a bright future that everyone awaits.

I think Hamdin Sabahi is the right person for this difficult stage. Anyway, whoever the president is, he has to work hard to prove his worth. God is the Helper!

I hope the Lord, may He be exalted and sublime, gives authority to the best ruler for the country.

Sameh al-Masri, 28 years old. It is good to see my country in this beautiful way. I hope things turn out for the best. Egypt is safety, Egypt is justice, Egypt is dignity and Egypt is freedom.

Despite the existence of political tensions in Egypt, and what I see that in some of their internal problems, I think the political process there is moving in a quite normal way and the successes achieved on the ground in the legislative elections and establishing the institutions through law, which began to organize the political life in all of Egypt are clear evidence that the political process is managed and conducted in an acceptable way despite the novelty of this process in which its maturation and taking it to further success will require some time. The existence of some stumbling blocks or some problems does not mean the political experience in Egypt has failed.

I want Mohamed Mursi.

“Legislation is not for anyone but for God. He has commanded that you not worship anyone but Him.”

A beautiful article, but let's think it over. What is right is right! We cannot say that the Muslim Brotherhood is able to lead Egypt politically on an international level. They are inexperienced in terms of security and the economy. They lack credibility, because they said they would not nominate anyone for the presidency, yet they did. In addition, they criticized the army, al-Azhar and the jurisdiction.

I want to know the election committee.

Yes to Ahmed Shafiq! No to anyone else. Maybe for Amr Mussa or Hamdin Sabahi.

I like the topic.

Except, except, except, except Mohamed Mursi.

Of course, we will elect a good president.

I swear by God, Egypt needs a man from the south of Egypt, to control it well.

I nominate Mohamed Mursi.

God willing, Ahmed Shaifik will be the next president of Egypt, after Mubarak and Abdel Nassir. He will have the smartness of Sadat and elegance. This man has sharpness and boldness.

God willing, Ahmed Shafik will win. Regardless of all the presidential candidates, I am proud to be Egyptian. Each day the people feel that they are strong due to being Egyptian, more than in the past few months. My best wishes to any president that will come to power. I hope that Egypt becomes his main responsibility! The cradle of civilization!

The Arab Nation and the countries of the region were not born yesterday. However, they have their glorious history which is significant and their great civilization, which opened the Middle East and Morocco in luminous ages that have gone and left their lasting, timeless and glorious impacts that characterized them. Why could they not face the challenges of the modern era in which we live and make the achievements of civilization which will achieve welfare, prosperity and decent living in the region, which has been shaken and stirred, stricken by the tragic situation that we are experiencing now? There is bleeding, plants are destroyed and disasters are caused to the nation. There is no helper. There is a person who can lead the nation towards righteousness and safety. The Arab and Islamic Nation can go beyond the crises that they are currently going through, whatever their nature and in any field or area where they exist. However, we must adopt the means that lead to that and that there would be a wise, proper and rational style in dealing with the events, as well as what has emerged from developments and global and regional variables affecting the internal affairs of the States. There was a severely flared and bitter struggle to gain access to a better situation and stay away from everything that increased the deterioration and the tension of the situation. It is no longer acceptable to have more suffering for the peoples who are no longer able to keep and continue their path which does not achieve their demands, meet their wishes and meet their needs. The difficult and bitter conditions with the openness to the world and the quick communication in all areas did not give the opportunity for the suffering of the developing countries to continue with the conditions of well-being experienced by the developed countries. The region is rich with its people of youth having vital explosive and creative energies, trained and educated skilled labor, wealth and natural energies, and infrastructure. All of this needs correct and rational attention to be paid. Dealing with it, so as to achieve the desired objectives of the peoples of the region, helps access to the best conditions of civilization pursued by the peoples of the region so as not to remain in the rear of the nations that cannot contribute or participate in modern civilization, which lives in the world today.

Egypt, which is post the Mubarak era that extended for more than thirty years, is a backward country at all levels. It is believed by many of its residents that they will do good and they will be rewarded if they voted for the devout religious custodians of the necks of people as they are required to do from the pulpits of the mosques, and they will do so in order to avoid the wrath of Allah as their religiousness invites them to do. These people do not know that with this act, they add to the misery of the situation another misery when the prospects for freedom are narrowed at the hands of the protectors of law, the guards of Allah's government on earth, and criminalizes the criticism of the Government of Imams, which will be considered as a spa for the law of the Lord, and allow superstition to replace science, superstition to replace theories, and the cortical aspects replace the analysis, investigation and study, charity instead of the economy, and rent instead of production. Egypt will be at the bottom of your choices beyond the cultural context of the contemporary nations. You cannot compare yourself with Turkey or Tunisia. What a difference there is between your situation and the situation of these two civilized countries even if the Islamists ruled them. The difference between the Islamists of either of these two countries and your Islamists is a vast distance measured in decades of time.