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Date of source: Tuesday, August 30, 2011
A ministerial committee agreed to consider two draft laws for the constituencies of the People's Assembly and Shūrá Council, which have been referred to the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF).
Date of source: Saturday, August 20, 2011
Dr. 'Abd al-Rahmān 'Azūz, former President of the Council of State, said that the Islamic Sharī'ah is not only about applying the hudūd, and that the religion section on the National ID card is against the concept of citizenship.
He added that Article II in the constitution does not object ...
Date of source: Wednesday, August 24, 2011
Many Islamist factions are disagreeing over the Azhar document and the propsed governing principles of the constitution. Salafists have declined to negotiate with Dr. 'Isām Sharaf, Prime Minister of Egypt, over the governing constitutional principles. The Muslim Brotherhood and the Islamic Group...
Date of source: Thursday, August 18, 2011
Representatives of political parties and Islamist groups announced their approval over the Azhar document as an only reference to seek during the process of drafting the constitution.
'Abd al-Mun'im al-Shahāt, the spokesman for the Salafist Call Organization in Alexandria, said the Azhar is the...
Date of source: Wednesday, August 17, 2011
The National Council for Human Rights (NCHR) insisted on the declaration of the main principles of the constitution for a modern civil democratic Egypt.
Muhammad Fā'iq, NCHR's vice president, said that there is no argument surrounding Article 2, noting that "even Copts accept it."
Date of source: Friday, August 12, 2011
Islamic groups threatened to organize a Million-Man protest and ascend its position as a response to what has been announced by the Deputy Prime Minister 'Alī al-Silmī, who said that the government will issue a new constitutional declaration.
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Date of source: Tuesday, August 2, 2011
Ādmon Butrus, the deputy chief of the Coptic league in Lebanon, discredited reports that the Muslim Brotherhood and the salafists are controlling the streets in Egypt after the downfall of the former regime.
"They won't get more than 5% of seats inside the People's Assembly in the forthcoming...
Date of source: Thursday, August 4, 2011
The salafists seek the application of the Islamic caliphate model, said Dr. Yusrī Hamād, the official spokesman for the al-Nūr (Light) Party, adding Egypt is an Islamic, not civil, nation.
He said that 95% of the Egyptian people are Muslims, noting the sharī'ah guarantees the rights of minorities...
Date of source: Sunday, August 7, 2011
What had been planned as a “Friday of unifying the ranks” ended, as unanimously agreed by the Egyptian media, as a “Friday of splitting the ranks”. While the day began with various political groups, including Islamists, converging on Tahrir Square in numbers that came close to a million, it ended...
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The 2nd Article, exists since 1971, of the now-defunct Egyptian Constitution is one of the most controversial topics every time there is talk on freedom of worship in the Egyptian society or the cares and problems of Christian citizens.
The article provides that Islam is the state's religion...
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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.