«Islam es la religión oficial del Estado»

Así reza el borrador de la nueva Constitución egipcia:

Countries with Sharia rule. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

«The constitutional declaration shows the strong leverage the Salafist Al-Nour party has on the transitional process, already blocking two prime minister nominations. One of the main objections to the 2012 Constitution by the liberal opposition was to the Salafist-written Article 219, which elaborated on the “principles of Islamic Sharia” stated in the famous Article 2 rather than keeping the text open-ended and more flexible. The controversial Article 219 actually remains. In fact, the previous articles 1 (which mainly spoke of democracy, identity and citizenship), 2 and 219 have been merged into a unique, new, Article 1. The new article reads:

“The Arab Republic Of Egypt is a state whose system is democratic, based on the principle of citizenship; Islam is the religion of the state; Arabic is its official language; and the principles of Islamic Sharia — which include its general evidences, its fundamental and jurisprudential rules, and its recognized sources in the doctrines of the people of the Sunna and Jam’aa (i.e., Sunnism) — are the main source of legislation.”

«La República Árabe de Egipto es un estado cuyo sistema es democrático, basado en el principio de la ciudadanía; el Islam es la religión del Estado; el árabe es su idioma oficial; y los principios de la Sharía islámica -que incluyen sus pruebas generales, sus reglas fundamentales y jurisprudenciales, y sus fuentes reconocidas, en las doctrinas de las gentes de la Sunna y de Jam’aa (esto es la doctrina sunita) – son su principal fuente  de legislación«.

¿Alguien sabe para qué ha servido la «primavera árabe«? Para más bien poco, como era previsible…

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