Egypt: woman Salafite as candidate but husband shows on poster
10 November 2011
ROME - The most recent manifesto of the Salafite movement, published ahead of the elections that will be held on November 28, speaks of a woman as candidate of Nur, the political party of Salafite Egyptians.
But, in compliance with a rigid interpretation of the Islam, the electoral document does not mention the woman's name and does not show a photo of her.
In fact the document does show a picture, but it is her husband's (in the picture), and caption says that ''she is the wife of Ismael Mustafa." This move has triggered a widespread campaign of sarcasm on Twitter, website Al Arabiya reports. According to the Egyptian media, the woman in question runs for the Nur party in the Dakhalia province, in the centre of the country.
The electoral propaganda poster has made its appearance on Twitter. It refers to the candidate as a woman living in the Dakernes area and graduated in Islamic studies. Her name, sources quoted by Al Arabiya specify, has been ''revealed'' by the leaders of the party on their electoral propaganda page on Twitter: apparently she is called Marwa Ibraheem Al Kammash and a rose is shown instead of her photo on the social network.
After the reactions made on the internet, those responsible for the electoral campaign of the Nur party had to remove both the woman's name and the rose, only leaving the caption: ''the wife of Ismael Mustafa." The Egyptian electoral campaign, according Al Arabiya's website, is showing fierce competition between secular and left-wing parties on one side, which claim modernity and promise a democratic political system, and Salafite forces on the other, which underline the importance of religion.
With the Egyptian elections approaching, the political battle for votes is getting harder. Some political forces have accused the Salafite movement, the Nur party in particular, of receiving foreign funding. But the movement has responded that it is more popular than the other political forces in Egypt.
Source: ANSAmed.
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