CAIRO: Hundreds of protestors belonging to Islamic movements marched through the streets of Downtown Cairo today with a 10-meter-long banner that said, 'There is no God but Allah and Mohamed is his prophet" and “The people want Islamic rule.” This was part of several marches organized by Islamist movements in which protestors declared their refusal of supra-constitutional principles and to prove the strength of the Islamic movement in Egypt. They said the protestors in Tahrir Square represent only themselves and not the people. Gamaa Islameya representative Mohamed Salah el Sharkawy said that today's protests were the beginning of the Islamist victory and that the Islamist movement was stronger than all other political groups in the country. He said the Islamic activists were those who have suffered the worst kind of political repression for the last 60 years. Some of Egypt's secular political forces left the supposed ‘Friday of Unification' demonstration in Tahrir Square today over what they saw as the Islamist movements' breach of trust and attempt to prove themselves as the strongest power. Such showings of strength from the Islamist movements are likely to make Egyptians – as well as foreign observes – uncomfortable.
