Telegraph:
Protesters set fire to the campaign headquarters of Hosni Mubarak’s last prime minister after it was confirmed that the former regime figure would face the Islamist Muslim Brotherhood’s candidate in the second-round of Egypt’s election.
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Ahmed Shafiq has said he will honour the revolution, but has refused to distance himself from his previous description of Mr Mubarak as his ‘role model’ Photo: AFP/GETTY
By Richard Spencer, Cairo
11:10PM BST 28 May 2012
The flames at Ahmed Shafiq’s offices are believed to have been started by the same young revolutionaries who overthrew Mr Mubarak and who have warned that they would not accept any of his former henchman as their president.
Mr Shafiq, a former air force general, essentially took day-to-day control of the Egyptian government last year as anti-Mubarak crowds gathered in Tahrir Square.
No one was was reported hurt after the demonstrators vandalised the Cairo offices and set them on fire.
Why doesn’t Egypt employ asymmetric warfare, that is, using the fact that Islam forbids euthanasia? Also, a Muslim cannot avoid torture by killing himself in advance. Another weak spot in Islam.