CAIRO (AP) \u2013 One of Egypt\u2019s most prominent ultraconservative Muslim clerics had high praise for the country\u2019s draft constitution. Speaking to fellow clerics, he said this was the charter they had long wanted, ensuring that laws and rights would be strictly subordinated to Islamic law.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis constitution has more complete restraints on rights than ever existed before in any Egyptian constitution,\u201d Sheik Yasser Borhami assured the clerics. \u201cThis will not be a democracy that can allow what God forbids or forbid what God allows.\u201d<\/p>\n
The draft constitution that is now at the center of worsening political turmoil would empower Islamists to carry out the most widespread and strictest implementation of Islamic law that modern Egypt has seen. That authority rests on the three articles that explicitly mention Shariah, as well as obscure legal language buried in a number of other articles that few noticed during the charter\u2019s drafting but that Islamists insisted on including.<\/p>\n
According to both supporters and opponents of the draft, the charter not only makes Muslim clerics the arbiters for many civil rights, it also could give a constitutional basis for citizens to set up Saudi-style \u201creligious police\u201d to monitor morals and enforce segregation of the sexes, imposition of Islamic dress codes and even harsh punishments for adultery and theft \u2013 regardless of what laws on the books say.<\/p>\n
The spiraling crisis is threatening to turn into an outright fight for the identity of post-revolutionary Egypt, splitting the nation between those who want an Islamic state and those who oppose it, two years after the fall of autocrat Hosni Mubarak.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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