Constitutional moment of Egypt is losing
The Egyptian president and his Islamist friends had another think coming if they thought they were a radical constitution than the people who fought for democracy in Tahrir Square sneak.
The draft constitution and the political maneuvering that made it possible, anger liberal and secular Egyptians who fear that their dream of a truly free Egypt, with real equality between men and women, for people of all fueled religions, is slipping.
It is clear that the elections and majority voting is an important part of decision-making in a democracy. Equally important is to define the basic principles of fairness and justice, creating a consensus on what the nation deems fair and then the development of institutions and rules that guarantee that they will survive through the ups and downs of politics.
One of the reasons is due to a fundamental misunderstanding of what democracy means. In places where dictatorship has triumphed, with many wrongly believed that democracy is majority rule straight men. They think that democracy is a method to impose the views of these options to win over those who lose.
The Egyptian president and his Islamist friends had another think coming if they thought they were a radical constitution than the people who fought for democracy in Tahrir Square sneak.
The draft constitution and the political maneuvering that made it possible, anger liberal and secular Egyptians who fear that their dream of a truly free Egypt, with real equality between men and women, for people of all fueled religions, is slipping.
It is clear that the elections and majority voting is an important part of decision-making in a democracy. Equally important is to define the basic principles of fairness and justice, creating a consensus on what the nation deems fair and then the development of institutions and rules that guarantee that they will survive through the ups and downs of politics.One of the reasons is due to a fundamental misunderstanding of what democracy means. In places where dictatorship has triumphed, with many wrongly believed that democracy is majority rule straight men. They think that democracy is a method to impose the views of these options to win over those who lose.
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