A group of 50 vehemently anti-Islam liberals and secularists have completed drafting Egypt’s coup-era constitution apparently designed to minimize Islamic participation in political life.
The 50 unelected members tasked with re-writing the constitution represent a tiny minority of Egyptians. Most of these idiots were carefully selected for their vindictiveness and hostility to Islam by the murderous coup-makers headed by Abdul Fattah Sisi who deposed the democratically elected president Muhammed Mursi.
The document is slated to be submitted to Adly Mansour the unelected figurehead President also installed by Sisi.
Interestingly it was Mansour who presided over the Constitutional Court which dissolved the Egyptian Lower House of Parliament following the huge victory by the Islamists and the huge defeat incurred by the secularists and liberals the very people now tasked by the military to write the new constitution.
A referendum to approve the new constitution is scheduled for January 2014. However it is highly likely that the new constitution will be rejected by a solid majority of Egyptians. This is why; many observers and political analysts expect the military coup authorities to falsify the referendum result in order to have the constitution approved by hook or by crook.
In the final analysis the argument goes; those who murdered thousands of innocent Egyptians in cold blood and toppled the only democratically-elected president in Egypt’s entire history cannot be entrusted to conduct free and honest elections. Murderers are also liars.
There is no doubt that this constitution will not live long even if passed by a slim majority as a result of vote rigging and other falsifications. The reason for this is simple. The document is scandalously inconsistent and fraught with self-contradictions.
For example the second article of the constitution states that Islam is state religion. However another article states that no political party will be formed on the basis of Islam.
One article states that freedom of religion or faith is absolute. However Muslims (but not Christians) are not allowed to vote for political parties or candidates with an Islamic platform. So how can a Muslim (95% of Egyptians are Muslims) practice his faith freely if he or she must vote for atheistic and other un-Islamic parties? Or is the democratic process to be confined to less than 5% of the people of Egypt namely the Copts and secularists and other enemies of Islam?
In other words would Muslims in Egypt have to effectively renounce their faith in order to be able to take part in the democratic process? This is a question that must be answered honestly and thoroughly especially by those who insist that the Sisi gang should be given a chance.
Similarly according to the new constitution every conceivable group of people with the exception of Muslims has the right to form political parties and contest elections. Indeed in order to be legal and allowed to function a given political party would have to be based on atheism secularism socialism sexual perversion or what have you.
The important thing is that no party should have an Islamic identity or platform. Yet the barking dogs of Egypt’s military junta don’t stop claiming that the deformed constitution is the most democratic in the entire world.
In addition to its explicit anti-Islam features the new constitution sanctions authoritarianism and fascistic despotism. For example the new document authorizes the government to have the final say on whether to allow people to demonstrate or protest grievances. In other words only pro-government demonstrations are to be allowed. And in case anti-government protests were allowed the government would have the right to choose the time and place of the demonstration and also determine the number of people taking part in it.
More to the point the military retains the right to prosecute civilians which corrodes the entire democratic system eviscerating it of any real content.
There is no doubt that the deformed document called “constitution” is a prescription for continued instability turmoil and even civil war in Egypt. I hope that the Egyptian people if allowed to voice their true opinions will consign this dishonorable and undignified document to where it belongs the dustbin of history.
