The Salafist Noor Party distributed flyers to deceive the Egyptian public encouraging them to vote for adopting a draft constitution that will pave the way for a theocracy that may discriminate between citizens.
Here's my attempt to translate the content of the flyer:
Voting Yes means:
For background on the controversial stipulations in the draft constitution read this 'Jadaliyya' article.
Here's my attempt to translate the content of the flyer:
Voting Yes means:
- Paving the way to impose Islamic Sharia Law
- Preserving the Egyptian identity
- Establishing the 'shura' principle
- Achieve social justice
- Assuring rights and freedoms within our social norms
- Preventing tyranny
- Reduce the powers of the president
- Economic prosperity, stability and strengthening state institutions
Voting No means:
- The principles of Islamic law will be nothing but 'decor'
- Our identity will be erased and we will be subjects of the West
- Keep the executive and legislative power in the hands of one individual
- Entrench inequality between classes
- Loose our values in the name of freedom
- compromise the dignity of our citizens (state security)
- Chaos and lack of stability
For background on the controversial stipulations in the draft constitution read this 'Jadaliyya' article.

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