CAIRO — On the first day of Eid al-Adha, on Oct. 4, social networking sites in Egypt saw angry comments and cynical jokes about Prime Minister Ibrahim Mehleb and Minister of Interior Mohamed Ibrahim, who cut short their pilgrimage to Mecca by abruptly returning to Cairo on Oct. 4, to perform Eid al-Adha prayers with President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi.
The wave of ridicule waged by activists on social media was accompanied by another wave of controversy about Mehleb and Ibrahim violating the duties of hajj by only performing some of the required rituals.