Connor Kokott GEOG 1300 Current events article 4 12/2/13 Reports: Egypt's draft constitution goes to interim president

From Mohammed Tawfeeq, CNN updated 10:48 PM EST, Sun December 1, 2013 A newly elected committee of 50 representatives is now voting one by one on 247 articles that will make up Egypts new constitution. After these are all voted upon the next step would be for the interim President Adly Mansour to ratify the chapter and then announce a date for it to post on a popular referendum. This constitution replaces the one that was suspended back in 2011. This constitution will also ban religious parties and actually give more power to the military. Some think that this constitution gives back the same power that gave Egypt its influence and a role and glory. They call this soft power. These new articles come months after a military group unseated the elected president Mohamed Morsy and started a series of violent protests. There have been protests about demonstrating against Egypts anti protest laws. Chuck Hagel called his Egyptian counterpart to try and get him to not restrict protests. In my opinion, I do believe religion should not be within the government. However, I do not believe that military should take up the power lost. There have been many repercussions in history of having a military based government that have ended in extreme measures. I can also say the same to governments run on extreme religious beliefs. Although, when there is a country that is predominately one religion then I think that I could work quite well. The problem is that religion is not the same everywhere, and people are constantly trying to spread their religion, out of future concerns or pride, and when you get different ideas, you get debate and sometimes violence and conflict. There should be a religion that truly expresses a peace between all the other ones and gets them to go along. They say they all want peace but when the actions come down they just fight over who has the most peace. I hope Egypt can find peace with these new laws but as it already seems they are nowhere near it. They are losing their freedom to protest and are protesting to save protesting. There must be another way.