Egypt: Brotherhood, Salafis Call for Mass Protest in Alexandria

19 December 2012

The Muslim Brotherhood and several Salafi parties on Wednesday declared their intention to stage a million-man demonstration in front of Alexandria's al-Qaed Ibrahim mosque next Friday.

The demonstration comes in response to what they called the trespassing of "the Popular Current and the Constitution Party militias" on the mosque and the besieging of Sheikh Ahmed al-Mahallawy inside the mosque last Friday.

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