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Dr. Su‘ād Sālih, professor of comparative Islamic law at the Azhar University, said in a meeting with O .TV. that Egyptian Muslims refuse a Christian president. He says that this is mentioned in the holy book.

She confirmed that Egypt is a Muslim country that has a majority of Muslims, 85 %, and it does not look like a country such as Lebanon, with many groups belonging to different beliefs.
 

She added "there are clear texts in the Qur’ān that  prevent Muslims from being  led by a non Muslim. Such quotations from the Qur’ān have provoked Sawirus and others. I think that the majority should determine the ruler's religion, and the mandate of the infidel in communist countries has priority due to the minority of Christians and Muslims in such countries.”

Sawirus and others believe that this verse from the Qur’ān denies Christians. However, the Qur’ān denies only those who deny the existence of God, and those who say there is more than one God. 
 

The conclusion is that the Christian’s mandate is possible only in the case of a Christian majority, and Muslims have to support a Christian ruler if his enemies and rivals are infidels or atheists. However, if the Muslim minority is stronger that the Christian majority, so the mandate goes to the stronger. In a country with a Muslim majority, the ruler cannot legally be Christian and Christians do not have the right to ask for power because the majority will choose their ruler.