Mūsá also pledged to work hard and quickly to uproot sectarian troubles, adding Egypt has experienced tumultuous years that marred relations between its Muslim and Christian citizens as the detestable fitnah tā’fīyah is overshadowing the nation and giving rise to a state of public panic.

“Egypt has to stand back on its feet and become the place whose law is a guarantee for us all,” he said during a meeting with the Egypt Copts Coalition at the headquarters of his campaign in the Giza district of al-Duqqī. [Nādir Ghāzī, al-Akhbār, April 27, p. 4] Read text in Arabic