Blog 9: Egyptian Court Declines to Rule on the Legality of Drafting a New Constitution

       A court declined on Tuesday to rule on the legality of the committee drafting Egypt's Constitution, dealing a setback to critics who have called the committee unrepresentative and too heavily dominated by Islamists. The decision by the higher court ensured that the current group of authors will have time to finish it's work. There have been arguments over the makeup of the committee, and pitched battles over pages of text, including articles dealing with women’s rights, Islamic law, executive power and the proper role of the state. Liberal groups have been concerned that the Islamist majority is trying to create the basis for an Islamic state. Ultraconservative Muslims have argued that the constitutional drafts have been deferential to their concerns. Just two months before a scheduled public ratification vote, there is no idea of what the final document will say. Members of the Muslim Brotherhood called the decision on Tuesday positive. Apart from the Islamic law, there have been arguments about minority rights. There have also been complaints that the draft articles released so far are timid and hardly reflect the views envisioned by Egypt’s revolutionaries and their demands for justice, social rights and the dismantling of former President Hosni Mubarak’s authoritarian state.

 

                The problem here has to do with the legislation of the Islamic culture. The people don’t agree with what’s going on and they are looking to change that. The people want to change it and worked to make changes and then bring to the attention of the government to get the changes made. This is a social problem because so many people in this society want a change and have decided to do something about it. This could also be looked at as a political problem because there are two different kinds of Islamic groups that want two different things. Even though the majority of the group wants equal rights, there is a small group that likes it the way it is. They just want equal rights among everyone, including women and they want changes involving the government. They are mostly looking for religious freedom in the government and freedom from the type of government they have. The changes they look for are slowly being made and that within itself has made it worthwhile because something is happening.

 http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/24/world/middleeast/egypt-court-wont-halt-drafting-of-constitution.html?_r=