Youm7: The rivalry between the Muslim Brotherhood and the Salafis over controlling the Eid al-Adha praying areas has started in several Egyptian governorates, including Alexandria, Gharbia, Dakahlia, and Kafr el-Sheikh, according to daily newspaper Youm7. Commenting on this rivalry, Egyptian sociologist Ismail Iskandarani said the rivalry is not new, but in the past there were different means for the competitions. After joining the political rivalry, the matter became fierce. Al-Ahram: Egyptian Public Authority for Expatriates supervisor Mohammad Mnisi expressed his doubt about good intensions of the concerned bodies that authorized Egyptian expatriates to vote in upcoming elections. As for the replacing the judges with diplomats to monitor expatriates' voting, he said the diplomats could practice the judges' duties without needing to amend the law. However, High Electoral Committee Chairman Abdel Moez Ibrahim said the law will be amended in order to protect voting from the suspicion of being null and valid. Al-Masry al-Youm: Commenting on relations between him and the Muslim Brotherhood, Medical Syndicate Chairman Khairy Abdel Dayem said his relation is normal as the Brotherhood supported him in elections for the presidency of the Medical Syndicate. He said he does not know anything about the Muslim Brotherhood's Guidance Bureau. The syndicate aims to enhance Egyptians' health insurance, he noted. Al-Akhbar: The Million-Man cities are considered catastrophes in Egypt and on its substructure because development should start from the villages, said Ibrahim Rehan, head of the Building and Development of the Egyptian Villages Body. The specialized villages will return to produce and revive industries and crafts, and the Gamal Mubarak project exploited the state's resources for nothing, he added. The ecological system will be applied in the villages as well, according to Rehan. Al-Shorouq: Egypt's ruling Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF) head Field Marshal Hussein Tantawi will not retire before handing over authority to a civil state or after that, said Abdel Moneim Kato, a SCAF member. Kato denied the media reports claiming Tantawi will retire before handing over authority. He said what was published is considered blasphemous. Kato also strongly criticized the Egyptian presidential candidates and Islamic trends opposing the Egyptian Prime Minister Deputy Ali el-Selmy's supra-constitutional principles document. Kato called on the political powers to not collide with the military council in the coming period, warning of the dictatorship of the minority and internal and external agendas that try to underestimate the Armed Forces' abilities. Kato also criticized the Muslim Brotherhood and the Salafis over their aim to establish a religious state instead of a civil one, saying the army should protect the nation from those people. Al-Gomhorreya: The Egyptian Judges' dignity and rights are untouchable and there is no power on them except their consciousness, said Judges' Club head Ahmed al-Zend. Regarding the decision of suspending the trials, he said this matter goes back to the judges themselves. Those who incited the violence will be punished, he continued.
