Following are excerpts from an address by Egyptian cleric Muhammad Hussein Yaaqub, which was posted on the Internet on June 13, 2012.
Muhammad Hussein Yaaqub: "The Shura Council of the Islamic Scholars [convened], and decided unanimously to support Dr. Muhammad Mursi for president.
"Do you have another solution? Do any of you have any other solution? There is no other way.
"But I told him [Mursi] all the things that you want.
"I said to him: I want a Salafi president, [who follows] the Koran and the Sunna like the early Muslims. He said: 'Yes, ours is a Salafi call.' He said so. He said this, and it is recorded on video. He said it.
"I asked him about the Shi'ites, and he said that the Shi'ites are more dangerous to Islam than the Jews. He said so.
"I told him that I wanted a president who is not afraid of America, and he said: 'I am not afraid.'
"What more do you want?" […]
