(archived from December 5, 2012)
by Scott Creighton
Contrary to popular propaganda, only 16 out of the 100 members of the assembly who wrote the new Egyptian constitution were from the Muslim Brotherhood. 16 out of 100 folks.
Egypt’s new constitution despite what you have been told, was NOT written by all Islamists and fanatical Muslim Brotherhood members hell-bent to enshrine Sharia law in Egypt. That’s just a downright lie.
It was written, in accordance with the 2011 Provisional Constitution of Egypt which itself was written by the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces of Egypt , not “Islamists”, on 30 March, 2011 in order to forge a new Egypt governed by the rule of law in the wake of the removal of our puppet dictator, Mubarak.
When you are told this document “enshrines Sharia law” and was written by the Muslim Brotherhood, that is a direct lie. Pure and simple.
They formed, according to the law, a 100 member assembly in order to write the new constitution. It is called the Constituent Assembly of Egypt and the main criticism coming from both the MSM as well as various “alternative” news sites is that it is dominated by the Muslim Brotherhood and thus they wrote the constitution. Again, not true.
“An agreement to form a more balanced assembly was reached on 7 June 2012. 39 seats would be filled by members of parliament, six by judges, nine by law experts, one each by a member of the armed forces, the police and the justice ministry, 13 seats by unions, and 21 by public figures. Five seats would be filled by the Al-Azhar University, one of Sunni Islam’s most important institutions, and four by the Coptic Orthodox Church” BBC
The Muslim Brotherhood’s Freedom and Justice Party ended up having only 16 seats in the assembly while opposition parties had 22 seats. There were 61 independents.