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Date of source: Friday, July 15, 2011
The Law No. 344 of 1952, amended by Law No. 173 of 1953, promulgating the Treachery Act is still in force and has not been revoked. Mahmūd ‘Abd al-Hādī ‘Ananī, an attorney at the Appeal Court and Supreme Constitutional Court, explains that Article 1 of the Treachery Act states that it will be...
Date of source: Saturday, September 17, 2011
During the last six months, it is noted that the Egyptian political life has interacted with many of the political documents. All of which revolve around the form of the next Constitution through what have been called by the media “supra-constitutional articles,” which must be taken into account in...
Date of source: Wednesday, October 26, 2011
Dr. Andrea Zakī, vice-president of the Coptic Evangelical Church, and General Director of the Coptic Evangelical Organization for Social Services (CEOSS), submitted proposals about the draft unified law for building houses of worship to be passed within days to the Supreme Council of the Armed...
Date of source: Wednesday, October 19, 2011
Freedom and Justice Party (FJP) Secretary-General in Alexandria, Husayn Ibrāhīm, said that the Muslim Brotherhood (MB) parliament members will activate the second article in the constitution calling it as a 'National Security' and filtering laws from anything that is against the Islamic Sharī'ah....
Date of source: Sunday, September 25, 2011
Dr. 'Imād al-Dīn 'Abd al-Ghafūr, the president of the Salafī-al-Nūr Party, said that his party will defend the 2nd Article in the constitution until death.
He said that the majority of the public are religious Muslims and that is their identity.
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Date of source: Tuesday, September 20, 2011
During a rally for the presidential candidate 'Amr Mūsá, he stated that Egypt is an Islamic state and should be thus ruled by sharī'ah, under Article 2 of the Constitution, which he would follow if he came to power.
He stressed the importance of maintaining equality between citizens and denounced...
Date of source: Monday, September 19, 2011
Dr. Sa'īd Kāmil, secretary general of the Democratic Front Party, said that Article II in the Constitution is a red line and the people will protect it, adding that this article assures the right for Copts, and Coptic Orthodox Pope Shenouda III admitted it.
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Date of source: Wednesday, September 14, 2011
The Muslim Brotherhood's Freedom and Justice Party (FJP) concluded a closed conference by warning the ruling military council against issuing general constitutional principles, and against preventing elected lawmakers from choosing the constituent assembly that will draft the new constitution.
"The...
Date of source: Wednesday, September 14, 2011
The Muslim Brotherhood's Freedom and Justice Party concluded a closed conference Tuesday by warning the ruling military council against issuing general constitutional principles.
The party's executive committee, the secretaries of its branches and political candidates participated in the meeting....
Date of source: Thursday, September 1, 2011
Dr. Hamdī Hasan, a leading member of the Muslim Brotherhood (MB), warned that there is a conspiracy against the second article of the Egyptian constitution that states '...Islamic Sharī'ah is the principal source of legislation".
He said that the MB will have to use force [Reviewer's Note: in...
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Dialogue Across Borders is a database of summary translations of Arabic newspaper articles with references to their sources about intercultural and interreligious relations, focusing primarily but not exclusively on Muslim-Christian relations. The database also contains articles with editorial analysis and interviews on the subject.