Leaders of the Coptic Orthodox, Evangelical and Catholic churches as well as Coptic activists severely criticized calls by salafists to implement the hudūd (a system of penalties for offences and crimes in Islam) and to have it stated in the new constitution.

The leaders termed the statements as “political naivety and only some media fireworks,” adding political Islam groups had a draft constitution from the 1980s they seek to activate after the January 25 revolution. [Mustafá Rahūmah, al-Watan, July 25, p. 5] Read text in Arabic