Salafi leader: ‘Mentally ill’ politicians defaming Islamist movement in Egypt.

Salafi leader: ‘Mentally ill’ politicians defaming Islamist movement in Egypt.(AlArabiya).Egypt is witnessing nowadays a counter-Islamist media campaign in what many describe is a bid to show fissures in the Islamist movement by accusing it od receiving foreign funding. The Salafis have received the major brunt of this criticism which prompted its official spokesperson, Sheikh Abdul Menhem Al Shahat, to publically challenge businessmen Naguib Swaris to prove that the Salafi movement had received even a penny from foreign sources.
Al Aabiya spoke to Nader Bakar, member of the high commission of An-Nour party, the political arm of the Salafi movement in Egypt. Bakar described the campaign against the Islamist movement an attempt by "mentally ill politicians" to reduce the movement’s popular support base.Bakar tackled the subject of Camp David convention saying that Islamists in Egypt need to debate this issue in parliament after the U.S. Reviewed its aid to Egypt and Israel. However he said investigation revealed the involvement of some Americans in foreign financing cases, the U.S threatened to cut aid to Egypt but not to Israel.
In this context, Bakar said: “The U.S. wants to send direct and indirect messages where you can read between the lines ... And to impose control over the Egyptian decision. And lately, we see that the U.S. has gone beyond the red line and is still behaving as if it is Mubarak’s era when they were used to sending direct threats to Egypt. We call on the current executive power to make the U.S. pay back twofold and to stop the American arrogance and put an end to American officials' provocative statements. Egypt will not accept arm-twisting and the Islamist movement, including the Salafi An-Nour party, agrees to continue receiving aid from the U.S. provided that Egyptian sovereignty remains intact and that the U.S. does not bind Egypt with any conditions. In fact, after the Egyptian revolution, there has been a popular resistance to any sort of affront to national dignity, threat or pressure under the name of aid and assistance. Read the full story here.