Muslim Brotherhood Egypt To Fast-track "ISLAMIST" constitution: Voting Thursday 2 months before deadline.

Muslim Brotherhood Egypt To Fast-track "ISLAMIST" constitution: Voting Thursday 2 months before deadline.(Ahram).By Gamal Essam El-Din.In spite of objections and boycott from the Church and most non-Islamist forces and big demonstrations across the country, the Islamist-dominated constituent assembly surprised all by deciding to put Egypt’s final draft of the new constitution to a final vote Thursday. At the end of its nine-hour session on Wednesday, the Assembly made another big surprise. It rammed through an article that gives the Islamist-dominated upper consultative house of Shura Council the power to issue legislations and until a new lower house parliament (the House of Representatives) is elected.
The two decisions were a big surprise because they came after Islamist President Mohamed Morsi decided on 22 November to give the Assembly two additional months so that non-Islamists and Islamists can reach a consensus on the new charter and finish their work without haste. Moreover, granting the Islamist-dominated Shura Council the power of legislating would cause a big backlash on the street. To most liberal and leftist forces, it makes no difference that Islamist president Mohamed Morsi or the Islamist-dominated Shura Council have the power of legislation because both are subject to the control of one force – the Muslim Brotherhood and its Salafist allies.
At the beginning of Wednesday’s session, the Assembly’s chairman Hossam El-Gheryani told members that “all of you should come at 10 O’clock tomorrow morning to get the honour of attending the vote on the new constitution.” El-Gheryani also issued a final call to members who withdrew from the Assembly – mostly non-Islamists and representatives of the Church – urging them “not to miss a glorious day.” “You had a hand in drafting this constitution and you should be keen to be here tomorrow on a great day to put the final touch on this work.” The Assembly’s Secretary-General Amr Darrag, a member of Muslim Brotherhood’s Freedom and Justice Party (FJP), also told parliamentary correspondents on Wednesday that “the debate on the final draft of the constitution would be completed today and then to be followed by a final vote on Thursday.”
“The decision to rush out the vote will only serve to pour oil on fire and push more anger into the face of Morsi and his group. It will exasperate the existing impression that the Assembly is really under the tight control of Muslim Brotherhood and that the resulting constitution was tailored by them to serve their political ends.” Worse, Dawoud added, giving Shura Council the power of legislating is a very dangerous development “because most non-Islamist forces do not trust an Islamist dominated upper house to issue laws that can serve democratisation.”Hmmmm....Salafi-jihadi sheikh Abu Mundhir Al-Shinqiti: "Sheikh Hazem [Abu Isma'il] will never be able to implement Allah's shari'a by means of these elections that perpetuate democracy, and I believe that many of the sheikhs who ruled [that people must] vote for him would agree with us that democracy and Islam are incompatible."Read the full story here.