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Date of source: Tuesday, May 15, 2012
CIDT director Hānī Labīb said the center has conducted a recent public opinion poll on Article 2, which reads that Islamic sharī’ah is the main source of legislation.
“The nine-month-long survey covered 5,000 respondents from 10 governorates as only 2% demanded the article’s abolition while 7%...
Date of source: Tuesday, May 15, 2012
Dr. Nabīl Hilmī, the former dean of the Faculty of Law, al-Zaqāzīq University, said during the meeting that he supports keeping article 2 of the constitution but has to be watered down so as to avoid it causing any splits among the segments of the Egyptian society.
Shaykh ‘Usāmah al-Qūsī, a Salafī ...
Date of source: Friday, May 25, 2012
“Citizens are trapped between a rock and a hard place. They will have to choose only between the fulūl (remnants of the former regime) or Islamist groups. Citizens voted for Shafīq not because he is the most efficient but rather to avoid brining the Muslim Brotherhood to power,” said Harīrī in...
Date of source: Monday, May 21, 2012
Presidential candidate Muhammad Salīm al-‘Awā said the most dangerous thing about the voting process is the unprecedented polarization based on Islamic slogans because it depicts persons who do not belong to this camp as if they were opposing Islam.
“Another form of political deviation is the war...
Date of source: Monday, May 21, 2012
The committee registering voters for the papal elections said until Sunday (May 20), the number of candidates for the post reached 18 after Bishop Pachomius, the acting patriarch, and Bishop Mīnā of Old Cairo announced they will not run for the position. [Husnī Mīlād a,l-Akhbār, May 21, p. 3] Read...
Date of source: Tuesday, May 22, 2012
The Church’s Holy Synod reiterated that it will not back a certain candidate versus another, adding it stands on the same distance towards all candidates but prays that the Lord would choose for Egypt the best one who would observe justice and equality among all citizens.
“The church leaves the...
Date of source: Sunday, May 20, 2012
Dr. Muhammad Mursī, the Muslim Brotherhood’s Freedom and Justice Party (FJP) candidate for the presidency, said he is definite that none of the ousted regime’s men will win the elections this week, adding they could only win if the votes were rigged.
In an interview with al-Nahār TV channel, Mursī...
Date of source: Sunday, May 20, 2012
Dr. Muhammad Mursī, the Muslim Brotherhood’s Freedom and Justice Party (FJP) candidate for the presidency, said he is definite that none of the ousted regime’s men will win the elections this week, adding they could only win if the votes were rigged.
In an interview with al-Nahār TV channel, Mursī...
Date of source: Friday, May 11, 2012
Dr. Safwat al-Bayādī, the head of the Coptic Evangelical Church in Egypt, said he would support a candidate who will put the nation’s interest as his top priority and separate between his religious affiliations and the homeland’s public good.
I would not refuse a pious president who is fair to all...
Date of source: Friday, May 11, 2012
Grand Shaykh of the Azhar Dr. Ahmad al-Tayīb said the Egyptian people are now free to choose their representatives like the case with the recent parliamentary elections and the forthcoming presidential elections, adding the people who can elect a president can as well sack him.
“We have no future...
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