CAIRO — Unlike other protests organized by Egypt's Islamist currents, the Muslim Brotherhood's Freedom and Justice Party and the Salafist Nour Party, who dominated more than 70% of the 2011 parliament, announced boycotting the protest and left Tahrir Square with several thousand protesters demanding a puritanical Islamic constitution.
Sheikh Mohamed Al-Saghir, the Islamic Group's prominent cleric and top officer of its political Building and Development Party, led the Friday sermon by fiercely criticizing "liberals and democrats who oppose the application of Islamic Sharia."
