Morsi signs Egypt’s new Islamist constitution into law
The new charter, which the secularist opposition says betrays Egypt’s 2011 revolution by dangerously mixing religion and politics, has polarized the Arab world’s most populous nation and prompted occasionally violent protest on the streets.
Results announced on Tuesday showed Egyptians had approved the text with about 64 percent of the vote, paving the way for a new parliamentary election in about two months.
The win in the referendum is the Islamists’ third straight electoral victory since veteran autocrat Hosni Mubarak was toppled in 2011, following parliamentary elections last year and the presidential vote that brought Mursi to power this year.
Mursi’s government, which has accused opponents of damaging the economy by prolonging political upheaval, now faces the tough task of building a broad consensus as it prepares to impose unpopular austerity measures to prop up the economy.
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Yay for the region!
Bishop on December 26, 2012 at 11:47 AM
Hillary Clinton deserves credit.
forest on December 26, 2012 at 11:51 AM
Swell !
Lucano on December 26, 2012 at 11:53 AM
How…unexpected.
MelonCollie on December 26, 2012 at 11:53 AM
Cleopatra is probably rolling around in her tomb.
NJ Red on December 26, 2012 at 11:55 AM
The mad rush to return to the 7th century will almost certainly pay off handsomely..
HotAirian on December 26, 2012 at 11:57 AM
Next up: Jordan.
Shy Guy on December 26, 2012 at 11:58 AM
The new charter, which the secularist opposition says betrays Egypt’s 2011 revolution by dangerously mixing religion and politics, has polarized the Arab world’s most populous nation and prompted occasionally violent protest on the streets.
Really because who did they THINK was going to come out on top in Egypt, THEM or the Ikhwan Muslameen?
A bunch of hipster Facebook/Twitter users or a well organized, authoritarian politcal machine?
JFKY on December 26, 2012 at 12:00 PM
Forget Cleopatra, we need the Scorpion King to come back with his army of 7-foot jackal monsters and wipe the entire !@#% region like a squeegee to a greasy window.
MelonCollie on December 26, 2012 at 12:02 PM
“Morsi signs Egypt’s new Islamist constitution into law”
The banal logic of Eqypt’s ‘democracy’, and, I suppose, that of those in the West who speak of it seriously.
Dusty on December 26, 2012 at 12:08 PM
Every country middle east country will be Af-Pak. Producing terrorists and sending them to civilized countries. Then next battle ground after the Middle East will be Indoesia and Europe.
Oil Can on December 26, 2012 at 12:09 PM
It is only contentious to fuzzy headed western retards and a thin ribbon of secular educated Egyptians living in city cores (1%’s of a sort). The country (barring invalid Christians) is anxious to be showered with Sharia and why shouldn’t they be? They are ignorant Muslims who only know the tough love of Islam. It will be good for them and it will be good for us. They will see what the purity and justice of noble Islam is finally in its religiously approved form and free from the western influenced tyrannical dictators. And it will be good for us if many can observe what allowing Islam and Muslims to have their way means. For them and by extension, us if we let them among us.
BL@KBIRD on December 26, 2012 at 12:34 PM
In related news…the Egyptian tourism industry shut off the lights, bordered up the doors, and applied for unemployment.
trs on December 26, 2012 at 12:59 PM
“Heckuva job Brownie”
Clink on December 26, 2012 at 1:04 PM
Get out now Christians! Get out asap.
sadsushi on December 26, 2012 at 2:12 PM