The sufī tarīqah sheikhs announced their rejection of an EU  that they believe to be an intervention in Egyptian internal affairs.  The EU statement denounced “the absence of a fully inclusive process, the lack of attempts to overcome the polarization of society and reducing political space for dissenting opinions before and during the referendum” and criticized the violence used by police against protestors. Dr. Abd al- Hady al Qasabī, the head of the Supreme Council for Sufī Tarīqahs, stated that Europe must be neutral and must stop making statements that, in his view, have revealed their goals to destabilize Egypt (Author not mentioned, al- Ahrām, Feb. 8). Read original text in Arabic.