The 50-members committee to amend the 2012 constitution has finished all amendments to the Egyptian constitution, which brought us a new constitution that meet the demand of many segments of the Egyptian people after the revolution of June 30. I won’t start citing the articles and criticizing them as many people would do. Voting in the upcoming referendum on this constitution and keeping the unity of the Egyptian people during that is way more important. Here, I want to say that the new constitution is a good one that deserves to get our support. It takes Egypt to a whole new era of respecting rights, freedoms, equality, citizenship, human rights and democracy.
Egypt is writing its constitution, which is hopefully going to entrench a civil and democratic state of Egypt that preserves rights of all Egyptians without discrimination based on race, color or religion. This is how constitutions usually work: They underscore the basic rights and principles to ensure rights and equality among all citizens, then comes the laws to explain and carry out such rights and principles.
The Egyptian government has finally moved to implement the authorization of the people to eliminate the terrorism of the Muslim Brotherhood. However, security forces moved wisely to disperse Rabaa El Adaweya and Nahda sit-ins. This was a strong message to the fanatics says: the people are fed up with your threats.
Egypt was turned upside down after Netherlands had granted asylum for the prosecuted Coptic Christians in Egypt. It was a great chance for many anti-Copts politicians, journalists or Islamists to attack the Copts and accuse them of treason as well as defaming Egypt. Many public figures have condemned asylum seekers claiming that Egypt has no racial discrimination at all, and said that Netherlands is trying to interfere in the Egyptian internal affairs, affecting its national solidarity badly!
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Engineering students at Cairo University begin sit-in over the death of Mohamed Reda, who they say was killed by police on campus