Why do the Copts support Gamal?

Earlier this month we puzzled over why Pope Shenouda III, the head of the Coptic church in Egypt, issued a public statement in support of Gamal Mubarak's candidacy for president.

Cameel Haleem, the president of the Coptic Assembly of America, offered some thoughts on this after today's Egyptian coalition press conference. He said Copts are afraid that the Muslim Brotherhood is the only alternative to Gamal.

The Coptic people, as you know, they're going for Gamal Mubarak, and this is because of what the Muslim Brothers have done over the last 20 years.

Mubarak put himself on one side, he put the brothers on the other... the Muslim Brothers have fell into the trick. They went with this radical thinking... this very strict... people in Egypt didn't want that. So they're going for Gamal Mubarak.

Haleem said Copts felt backed "into a corner" and asked, rhetorically, who they were supposed to support.