He said that the whole world knows that Egyptians want the implementation of the Islamic sharī’ah, adding Egyptians’ wish to have their country pursuing Islamic laws should not be a reason for concern.

“I pledge to preserve churches and monasteries so that everyone feels he/she lives in a nation where there is no discrimination between Muslims and Christians,” he said. [Hajjāj al-Husaynī, al-Ahrām, May 1, p. 4] Read original text in Arabic