Dr. Nājih Ibrāhīm, a member of the al-Jamā'ah al-Islāmīyah (Islamic Group) Shūrá Council, said Islamists in Egypt suffer from some flaws about making more and more friends, adding Egyptians have to brush aside trivialities that take much of their time and show more interest in serious issues.

"Copts are part of the nation's fabric that can never be ignored," Ibrāhīm said in reply to a question by a Coptic student on the guarantees the Jamā'ah can offer if it came to power during a symposium organized by the Assiut University students.

He called upon the scholars and religious leaders to renew their discourse in a way that better suits the spirit of the age. [Mahmūd al-'Isīrī, al-Jumhūrīyah, Feb. 29, p. 7] Read text in Arabic