Muslim Brotherhood Murshid (Guide) Dr. Muhammad Badī’ said that the MB, watching the circumstances the country is going through, is reviewing the decision to agree on a presidential candidate.

"The MB is not changing its stance on fielding a candidate for the presidency but the reason of reviewing that decision is because a number of the former regime figures have announced they would run in the elections," Badī' said in a meeting in Kafr al-Sheikh governorate.

[Reviewer's Note: The Muslim Brotherhood, in statements during the recent parliamentary polls that took place last year, had pledged not to field a candidate in the presidential elections]

The Muslim Brotherhood leader stressed that the group will not support presidential hopeful ‘Abd al-Mun'im Abū al-Futūh because he disobeyed the group.

He also related that when he was inaugurating the group’s headquarters in Ismailia governorate, the "chief of priests" came to welcome him and sat off the mosque in which Badī’ asked him to come in. While they were talking, a Salafist came shouting "get this infidel [the chief of priests] outside the mosque".

"I am only relating this story because if we did not understand our religion then we would present it in a bad image," according to Badī’. [‘Alā’ ‘Abdullah and Hānī ‘Izzat, al-Ahrām, March 27, p. 4] Read original text in Arabic