Dr. Ahmad Kamāl Abū al-Majd, former Vice-President of the National Council for Human Rights (NCHR), criticized use of mosques for political campaigning, saying that mosques are for worshiping and guide the nation.
He rejected the exploitation of mosques as places to promote political projects.
Dr. Abū al-Majd also said that "the salafists phenomenon is a mockery by all standards.
For whoever wanted to promote virtue and prevent vice should do it through advice to Muslims and not through forming an organization and practicing power.
He resembled the salafists to the Young Egypt Party during 1940s, when they tried to break into liquor stores under the pretext of promoting virtue and preventing vice, which would not do in a country enjoying therule of law.
Meanwhile, a salafī group rejected salafists' wish for Egypt to turn into another Iran or Gaza, or to be ruled by shaykhs or the military.
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