Presidential candidate Muhammad Salīm al-‘Awā said the most dangerous thing about the voting process is the unprecedented polarization based on Islamic slogans because it depicts persons who do not belong to this camp as if they were opposing Islam.

“Another form of political deviation is the war of rumors, including the one that I am the candidate of the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF) or that I am a Shiite who will allow Iran to invade Egypt culturally,” said ‘Awā. [Husayn Dusūqī, al-Akhbār, May 21, p. 8] Read text in Arabic