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% supported having it in the constitution on condition of introducing some amendments to grant non-Muslims the right to have recourse to their own religious laws,” Labīb said. [Author Not Mentioned, al-Akhbār, May 15] Read text in Arabic