Some Salafī preachers led a smear campaign against candidates said to be staunch supporters of the January 25 revolution in favor of the Muslim Brotherhood’s candidate Muhammad Mursī.

Led by a man called Shaykh Tawfīq ‘Ulwān, the preachers called for voting for Musī, threatening that whoever fails to vote for Mursī will be bitten by snakes for four years in his/her grave. [Sāmī Biltājī, Sawt al-Ummah, May 14, p. 20] Read original text in Arabic