Some Copts backpedaled on support for Dr. ‘Abd al-Mun’im Abū al-Futūh, whom they used to view as more moderate than the Muslim Brotherhood’s candidate Dr. Muhammad Mursī, after Abū al-Futūh gained the support of Salafists.

Copts chose to back the fulūl (Arabic word for remnants) of the former regime for fears Egypt could turn into a conservative Islamic state where they will have no place. [Shaymā’ ‘Amr, al-Misryūn, May 14, p. 4] Read text in Arabic