Not that anyone is surprised to hear that from the Salafists. But everyone is surprised at their showing in the election. They were widely described as a marginal Tiny Minority of Extremists. With the Muslim Brotherhood's Kiss Freedom and Justice Goodbye Party, the Salafists' al-Nour party will be writing the next constitution. A democracy is only as good as the values that inform its participants.
What they like in the current constitution, they will keep, and uphold as a precedent for more Islamic governance, particularly in the case of the current Article 2, which proclaims that Islam is the religion of state, Arabic its official language, and Sharia the basis for legislation.
"Egypt’s al-Nour Salafists say no to Coptic president," by Manar Ammar for Bikya Masr, January 3:
CAIRO: Egypt’s al-Nour ultra-conservative political party announced that a Coptic Christian cannot become president of Egypt and that Egyptian society “will not accept a Christian president.”
Al-Nour means "the light." So many Lucifer jokes, so little time.
The puritan party’s spokesman wrote a statement published on the party’s website aiming to clear the controversy after Egypt’s al-Akhbar state-run newspaper published an interview with spokesman Mohamed Nour on December 31 in which he said that “the Egyptian society is not fit to accept a Coptic president.”
In that translation, you could take that more than one way. It almost sounds like a compliment to the Copts.
The spokesman said that after going back to the leaders in the party it was agreed on that Egypt “will not accept a Christian president.”
The Islamic political party was founded after the Egyptian uprising of January 2011 and has come in second place in the country’s first parliamentary elections following the revolution.
“We see that the interpretation of the second band [Article 2] in the Egyptian Constitution which states Islam as the ‘official religion’ of the country, which automatically states that the president be a Muslim,” read the statement....
First thing I thought of when I read this article was that stupid speech Obama gave in Egypt back in 2009 in which he praised Islam for its tolerance, as well as crediting the Islamic world for discoveries other cultures made.
Wasn't it Hassan al-Banna, one of the original gang bosses of the Muslim Brotherhood, who said, "Islam is to dominate, and not be dominated"?
Islam has a zero-sum mentality and an overweening (and entirely unjustified and unjustifiable) sense of superiority and entitlement.
Non-Muslims are viewed with contempt and disgust, as inferior beings, and are therefore not supposed to have authority over Muslims in any sphere of life or activity.
this is also part of the reason for the sharia ban on Muslim women marrying husband who remain non-Muslim after the marriage: since Muslims see marriage also in zero-sum master-slave terms - the husband dominates, absolutely; the wife has the status of an animal, slave, chattel or physical object [plough-land / 'tilth'], it is anathema that a Muslim female, being of the 'superior' group, should become the slave/ chattel/ tilth of someone who is viewed as inferior.
Well, that's understandable, Mahoundians don't want a kuffar president any more than we (US) want a Mahoundian president...
The prez we have now is not a declared Mahoundian, but he is close enough for government work...and look at all the great things 'that' has done for America...
"First thing I thought of when I read this article was that stupid speech Obama gave in Egypt back in 2009 in which he praised Islam for its tolerance, as well as crediting the Islamic world for discoveries other cultures made."
Oh, that was truly insane. And to think the Leader of the Free World told those lies.
Best Wishes to you, Wellington. Hope your new year is going well.
"Wasn't it Hassan al-Banna, one of the original gang bosses of the Muslim Brotherhood, who said, "Islam is to dominate, and not be dominated?"
If so, al-Banana got it from his false prophet Warlord Mo who said, "Islam must dominate and not be dominated."
"Egyptian society" is being used here as synonymous with "Muslim majority," which would not tolerate a non-Muslim being in a place of authority over Muslims. That would be illegal under Sharia law. Hopefully those in the West in political office and with political aspirations are taking note of this official statement coming out of Egypt.