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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsEgypt reportedly revamping the constitution drafted under Morsi to ban religious based parties but
will keep the stipulation that all legislation must be rooted in Sharia. So, no religious parties, just religious law.
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This would mark a return back to Article 5 of 2007's constitutional amendments introduced by the regime of ousted president Hosni Mubarak. It stated that, "It is not permitted to pursue any political activity or establish any political parties within any religious frame of reference (marjaiyya) or on any religious basis or on the basis of gender or origin."
The committee source said, "The return to the 2007 constitution's Article 5 was necessary after we saw that dozens of political parties were clearly formed on religious foundations and that their main objective was to turn Egypt into a religious state."
The source explained that "the anticipated ban gained momentum after the committee received requests and proposals from more than 400 political, economic and social institutions, pressing hard for the necessity of safeguarding Egypt against Islamist factions trying to change the civil nature of the country into a religious oligarchy."
The source, however, argued that "as a return back to a constitutional article that was drafted by the Mubarak regime is expected to stir up a lot of controversy, the new constitution will keep Article 2 of 2012's Islamist-backed constitution which states that Islamic Sharia is the main source of legislation in place."
Chairman of the committee Ali Awad told parliamentary correspondents last week that Article 2 on Islamic Sharia will be retained "in order to stress the Islamic identity of Egypt."
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http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/1/64/79368/Egypt/Politics-/Technical-committee-to-propose-radical-changes-to-.aspx
LuvNewcastle
(16,820 posts)or they're at least setting their constitution up like it was then. That's the thing about a lot of these revolutions. They have a brief flirtation with a new form of governance and then they decide that things were better before they revolted. The actors change, but the script remains the same. This mess in Egypt is a prime example of how hard it is to bring about true and lasting change.
cali
(114,904 posts)is new, according to the article, but yeah, sharp observation about the players changing and the script remaining the same. The military in Egypt is so powerful and controls such a large piece of the economy, that in retrospect, this all seems inevitable.
Recursion
(56,582 posts)It involves either "religious authority" or "personality cult" depending on which side of that line you fall on.