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We’ll allow a Coptic president when Israel allows a Muslim one: Salafist leader

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One of Egypt’s most prominent Salafist leaders has said he would only accept a Coptic Christian president of Egypt if the US, Britain and Israel accepted a Muslim president of their countries. According to Yasser Burhami, head of the influential El-Dawa El-Salafiya (Salafist Call) group, Copts do not have the right to run for political office in Egypt.

Al Ahram, Egypt

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