The Freedom and Justice Party, the political arm of the Muslim Brotherhood, said it supports having both articles intact. The salafīs also refuse Article III because they want to change the phrase "sovereignty is by the people" to read "sovereigny is by Allah". 

[Reviewer’s Note: Article II of the Egyptian Constitution of 1971 reads, “Islam is the official religion of the state, Arabic its official language and the principles of Islamic sharī’ah are the main source of legislation”. Salafists sought removing the word ‘principles’ or replacing it with the word ‘rulings’]

“The salafīs will refuse a constitution that is antagonizing the Islamic sharī’ah. Failing to provide an interpretation for the word ‘principles’ in Article II will make it subject to intervention by the Supreme Constitutional Court to interpret as it likes,” said Yūnis Makhyūn, a member of al-Nūr’s higher office and the constitution panel. [Hamdī Dabash, Mahmūd Sha’bān Bayūmī and Sharīf al-Dawākhlī, al-Misrī al-Yawm, July 25, p. 4] Read original text in Arabic