Hizb al-Binā’ wal-Tanmīyah (Construction and Building Party) and Coptic Youth Coalition in Aswan Governorate formed the first Islamic-Christian alliance in Egypt to solve any disputes that may erupt between both parties, especially religious disputes.

Shaykh Khālid Ibrāhīm al-Qūsī, leader of al-Jamā’ah al-Islāmīyah and Deputy President of the party, said that Islamic political parties never call any segment of society “infidel[s]" (Mu’āz Muhammad, al-Misrīyūn, Jan. 21, 2013, p. 10). Read original text in Arabic