He convinces himself his neighbour - played by Egyptian Khaled Abol Naga - is a terrorist.
Abol Fotoh, born in 1951, was one of five brothers in a large family.
After a few minutes, I was brought into Abol Fotoh's corner office, a well-furnished room with a couch and large desk.
Abol Fotoh retorted by saying he always opposed violence and those who committed the violence were the only ones responsible for it.
"He was against our ideas, even when he was a student, " Abol Fotoh said, referring to the Brotherhood's disavowal of violence in the 1970s.
"Our campaign depends on the efforts of the youth that works all over the country in a decentralized fashion, " Abol Fotoh declared in the debate.
Or they can opt for a new Islamic order, either with the full-on Muslim Brotherhood candidate, U.S.-educated Mohamed Morsi, or the Islamic-lite candidate Abdelmonen Abol Fotoh.
Al Ahram's count put Abdelmonen Abol Fotoh, a moderate Islamist running as an independent, and Amre Moussa, who previously served as foreign minister and headed the Arab League, in fourth and fifth places, respectively.
Within the Muslim Brotherhood, Abol Fotoh was particularly popular with the tech-savvy and more cosmopolitan-minded younger generation of members in their 20s, some of whom told me in 2007 they hoped he would one day lead the organization.
When I arrived for my interview with Abol Fotoh on a mild, sunny day in January 2007 at a grand building housing the Arab Medical Union just off a busy Cairo street, I was ushered into a patients' waiting room.
Even among the middle generation of leaders, Abol Fotoh stood out as relative progressive, his worldview broadened by trips he was able to make out of Egypt as the Arab Medical Union's secretary general (few other senior Brotherhood figure were allowed to travel out of the country).
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