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 preacher, said he prays for the day when Article 2 be removed from the Egyptian Constitution adding he disagrees with the Muslim Brotherhood, which, he said, is using political Islam ideologies to opportunistically achieve certain gains. [Nādir Shukrī, al-Akhbār, May 15] Read text in Arabic