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“I hesitantly confess: I am Egyptian, I am half Jewish, and I am gay.”
http://bikyamasr.com/63604/egypts-omar- ... s-hes-gay/He says that the Egypt of today is dramatically different from the one he left pre-January 2011 uprising, arguind that the country has moved from a “pluralist” society to one consisting of a “monolithic entity,” in reference to the rise of the Islamists in the country.
Islamisten entscheiden über neue VerfassungDie künftige Verfassung Ägyptens wird aller Voraussicht nach stärker vom Islam geprägt sein als die bisherige unter Präsident Hosni Mubarak. Wie die staatliche Presse berichtet, setzten sich bei der Wahl der 100 Mitglieder der verfassunggebenden Versammlung am Wochenende knapp 70 Kandidaten durch, die dem islamistischen Lager zugerechnet werden. Die christliche Minderheit darf dagegen nur fünf Vertreter entsenden. Und auch Frauen sind deutlich unterrepräsentiert: Nur sechs Mitglieder des Gremiums sind weiblich.
. Sie tuen es, um ihrem Unmut Ausdruck zu geben, dass die Zahl der MB/Salafisten zu gross ist.
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Fifteen Egypt political groups and movements including the most prominent leftist and liberal political parties the Free Egyptians, the Democratic Front and al-Tagammu announced on Monday the formation of “Constitution for All Egyptians Front,” which aims to “defend Egyptians right to draft a national constitution that ensures them their them their basic rights to freedom, dignity and social equality and also guarantees the representation of all the spectra and forces of the society and consensus over its drafting.”
Egypt to hold “Constitution for All” protestThe Front also demanded that all public figures that have been selected in the Constituent Assembly to draft the constitution to withdraw from it and “reject the monopoly of the Islamists over the Assembly.”
The lawsuit said the fact that the People’s Assembly will elect some of its members to the constituent assembly will cause one government branch, the legislature, to monopolize the assembly.
The possibility that a single group could dominate the constituent assembly could lead to the adoption of a constitution that establishes a parliamentary system, the lawsuit said, in violation of existing practice and the people’s desires.
...the military establishment is fighting to keep its 60 years of privileges and sacred status in the aftermath of an unexpected revolution. Meanwhile, the Muslim Brotherhood and the Salafists see the moment as a golden opportunity to (finally) effect huge changes in the country and gain considerable political advantages, especially now that they control 65 per cent of the constituent assembly.
The political analyst says, shrewdly, that the best way to settle such a conflict is to strike a deal that would allow both warring sides to walk away satisfactorily, maximising their gains.
...An expert in political science, who asked to speak anonymously because he works closely with decision-making circles, says that this much-speculated deal has, indeed, been brewing for some time.
Both the military council and the Muslim Brotherhood have, according to the source, completed their own, separate versions of a constitution that lays out their distinct visions and goals. Furthermore, they are negotiating over which articles to encrypt in a new charter and who they want to send to the constituent assembly in order to push their desired proposals.
)The head of the Department of Information in the People’s Assembly General Assem El-Geneidy, says that an end to the fight over the status of the military and sharia in the constitution will be immediately followed by an argument over who has the right to pass constitutional amendments in the future.
...The SCAF will never agree to the notion that any one body, especially one controlled by the Brotherhood, could control the right to amend the constitution in the future, since this could one day endanger any immunity the generals might gain in the short-term.
Fuer den Artikel braucht man etwas Ruhe, da er sehr lang ist, doch - soll man der Quelle glauben - wird es ein abgekartetes Spiel werden..."I would never take part in writing this constitution. I might work on the following constitution. This document will have a short life because it will be a product of a political deal based on short-term special interests," concluded the constitutional expert.
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.Danach kamen ploetzlich 7 Militaerfaehrzeuge und das Krankenhaus wurde gestuermt...when one of the military personnel attempted to flirt with a nurse .The situation then escalated as hospital security blamed him...
.They won the parliamentary elections, just like they did in most labor unions and professional syndicates votes, fair and square. But that does not mean their presidential pick can count on the same voters.
Ich glaube zwar nicht, dass der Praesident ein Christ sein wird oder gar eine Frau, doch soll ja auch im Rahmen der neuen Verfassung seine Rechte ein wenig eingeschraenkt werden, so dass ein Grossteil der Macht eh beim Parlament liegt. Da muss der Neue nicht noch mit Parteibuch der MB kommen... Es liegt zerst eimnal viel Gewicht in der Neufassung der Verfassung...dann sehen wir weiterBeside its supporters and sympathizers, many people voted for contenders in the legislative elections because they had previous experience and unblemished reputations, not because they were Brotherhood members.
Others who wanted to vote for Islamists, just any Islamist, chose Brotherhood candidates because they did not know or trust Salafists, the previously untested Islamists who only ventured into politics after the revolution.
Still, very few Brotherhood candidates won outright, while the vast majority had to go through tight run-offs.
Christians, liberals, leftists and even secularists voted for them in the second round because they thought they were choosing the lesser evil, the other being Salafists or loyalists of ousted president Hosni Mubarak.
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