The Arab Socialist Alliance Party warned of sectarian instigation by Islamists for political gains in the presidential elections in their conflict with the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF) over power.

The party called on Muslim Brotherhood’s presidential candidate Muhammad Mursī to send an open message for all his supporters all over Egypt to stop this type of “black propaganda that poses a threat to the nation’s security and peace”. [‘Imād al-Dīn Sābir, al-Ahrām, June 16, p. 3] Read original text in Arabic