Women and Christians cannot be president

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AKI - Adnkronos international Egypt: Women and Christians cannot be president, say Muslim Brotherhood: "The Muslim Brotherhood, Egypt's strongest opposition group, has said that women and Christians cannot become president in Egypt. 'Women and Christians are not allowed to have access to the position of president of the republic,' said a representative of the Muslim Brotherhood in a report carried by local newspaper, al-Masri al-Yom. The highly influential Islamist movement, banned in several Arab countries such as Syria, Jordan and even Egypt, expressed this view as part of a draft of a new political programme revealed on Wednesday. Women and Coptic issues have been impediments to the group's party platform being accepted by Egyptians as a whole. Scholars and intellectuals have asked the group to modify its views on this matter, but this latest statement shows that the group has refused to change its previous stance, which is based on an Islamic fatwa or edict."