Highlights from Egypt, Dec 11 2012 / Huge Protest. IMF Loan. Selling Egypt

[Catherina]

2. Dear Western fuckwads kindly read some ACTUAL investigative work on #Egypt's constitutional draft

Elazul ‏@Elazul

Dear Western fuckwads, kindly read some ACTUAL investigative work on #Egypt's constitutional draft by @SaraLabib http://tabulasara.blogspot.com/2012/12/constitutional-highway-to-theocracy.html …

Constitutional Highway to Theocracy

It is no secret that the Egyptian Islamists (most importantly represented in the Constitional Assembly by the Muslim Brotherhood and the Da'awa Salafiya) who, together with clear sympathizers, possessed more than half the seats in the Constitutional Assembly, all want a religious state, a theocracy of sorts, a system where purely religious rules are enforced using state power. This demand has been at the heart of their chants in protests, their parties' political programs and their members' words whenever they appear in the media. In fact, during the discussions in the Constitutional Assembly, some members of that group wanted to remove the word "democratic" from the draft altogether, because it would imply putting the people's will above that of God (cf. infra).

Read in its entirety here: http://tabulasara.blogspot.com/2012/12/constitutional-highway-to-theocracy.html