It is apparent that the poster A'isha is lying outright because she/he is apparently knowledgeable .
Tsk, sticks and stones.
It ( Islamism) was but later abandoned due to threat of ban from Judges for being islamist. Before changing their position they won the election with landslide victory in the 2002 election based on Islamism.
No, they didn't "later change their position". The party was founded in 2001, and they were threatened with banning before the 2002 election. Their 2002 election manifesto didn't say a single thing about
shari'ah, but instead declared that "AKP is a democrat, conservative, reformist and contemporary party" and was all about government corruption, the high unemployment rate, and the economic and political requirements for EU membership.
They're religiously conservative and arose from Islamist parties (they consider themselves the equivalent of Europe's conservative
Christian Democrat parties), but their platform was and is not centered on imposing
shari'ah law on Turkey.
The closure trial of the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) of Turkey was a court case in 2008 to close the party and ban its 71 leading members from politics for five years, based on the charge that the party violated the principle of separation of religion and state in Turkey. The closure request failed by one vote, as only 6 of the 11 judges ruled in favour, with 7 required; however, 10 out of 11 judges agreed that the AKP had become "a center for anti-secular activities", leading to a loss of state funding for the party.[2]
And in the part of the wiki article you cut out without indicating you cut out, the thing that prompted this closure trial was not something like Erdogan wanting to mandate the wearing of headscarves, but to lift the total headscarf ban at universities (making the US actually
less secular than Turkey in this regard).
Lol. The rights of christians and name sake or secular muslims (small percentage of egyptian population) were going to get screwed by sharia . Naturally they demonstrated against sharia.What exactly I am admitting new that I didn't before ?.
You keep, for some bizarre reason, asserting that the only people protesting were the Christians. The June protesters came out in huge numbers, and were composed of Egyptians from all walks of live, with the only similarity they had with each other being an opposition to the Muslim Brotherhood and what it had been doing.
Ridiculous that majority of muslims voted for Sharia liking "islamic brotherhood" ? .
Except it was a minority of Muslims that actually voted, and in a country of 90 million people and 50 million eligible voters, only four million more Muslims voted for it than against it.
Classic diversion. and stupid conclusion.One cannot assume those who didn't vote are against the referendum.If 88% are gaist the referendum they would have voted No unless there are threats.
Or, you know, boycotts.
Since islamic brotherhood is at helm of affairs there was no threat for those who want to vote FOR SHARIA.
So why did so few of them vote for it, then?
Not when they are counting millions.
Yes, when they are counting millions.
Another diversion and outright lying (and time wasting spam tactic to fill the space ).
Here is earlier post by aisha.
Aisha at post 720: said:
Because they were so incensed at how the Brotherhood forced through the draft constitution despite the walkout by the secularists and al-Azhar that
many of them boycotted the vote in protest.
link provided by aisha
As I said before the Opposition boycotted citing reasons of Morsi appropriating all power in his hands.
I think you ought to actually read the article before calling me a liar. The reason for the boycott and the protests described as ongoing in the article
wasn't Morsi's decree (the very first sentence of the article mentions that Morsi
rescinded that decree). The protests and the boycott were about the upcoming referendum on the draft constitution, because "[t]he [constituent] assembly – then without liberal and Christian representatives who had withdrawn – rushed to finalise the draft and officially hand it to Morsi, who then called for a referendum to take place this Saturday."
The liberal, secular opposition coalition wanted to boycott the referendum because it was to take place almost immediately after Islamists and Salafists in the constituent assembly rushed through a draft constitution after liberal and Christian (and al-Azhar) representatives walked out in protest of the attempts to add pro-
shari'ah provisions to the draft.
And that coalition, the protestors against the 2012 referendum, and the massive numbers of anti-Morsi protestors in June 2013 were not simply the "Christian 20%" with all the Muslims supporting Morsi and the Brotherhood.
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