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Tunisia MPs reject Islam as law
Tunisia's assembly has rejected Islam as the main source of law as it voted on a new constitution.
AP
15 MINS AGO
Tunisia's Islamist-dominated constituent assembly has compromised in rejecting Islam as the main source of law as it voted on a new constitution for the country that spawned the Arab spring.
But while it established Islam as the state religion, it promised freedom of conscience, despite one MP warning on Saturday that "satanists" and "idolaters" would be practicing in public and criticism by a rights group it was too vague.
Saturday's sitting of the National Constituent Assembly, which has adopted 12 out of 146 articles, came amid concerns a January 14 deadline for the charter's approval could be missed because of disruptions and the slow pace of deliberations.
It was on January 14, 2011, that ousted dictator Zine El Abidine Ben Ali and his family fled the country for exile in Saudi Arabia.
The first two articles adopted, neither of which may be amended, establish Tunisia as a "civil" republic based on the rule of law and with Islam as its religion.
The assembly rejected two amendments, one proposing Islam and the other proposing the Koran and Sunna - the sayings, acts and judgments of the Muslim Prophet Mohammed - as "the principal source of legislation".
In what was a raucous session that had to be suspended at one point, Mohamed Hamdi of the small Current of Love party defended Islamic law, saying it would give "spiritual backing to all rights and liberties".
Read rest of article here: http://www.newsnow.co.uk/A/688315158?-2809:"]Tunisia MPs reject Islam as law
Tunisia MPs reject Islam as law
Tunisia's assembly has rejected Islam as the main source of law as it voted on a new constitution.
AP
15 MINS AGO
Tunisia's Islamist-dominated constituent assembly has compromised in rejecting Islam as the main source of law as it voted on a new constitution for the country that spawned the Arab spring.
But while it established Islam as the state religion, it promised freedom of conscience, despite one MP warning on Saturday that "satanists" and "idolaters" would be practicing in public and criticism by a rights group it was too vague.
Saturday's sitting of the National Constituent Assembly, which has adopted 12 out of 146 articles, came amid concerns a January 14 deadline for the charter's approval could be missed because of disruptions and the slow pace of deliberations.
It was on January 14, 2011, that ousted dictator Zine El Abidine Ben Ali and his family fled the country for exile in Saudi Arabia.
The first two articles adopted, neither of which may be amended, establish Tunisia as a "civil" republic based on the rule of law and with Islam as its religion.
The assembly rejected two amendments, one proposing Islam and the other proposing the Koran and Sunna - the sayings, acts and judgments of the Muslim Prophet Mohammed - as "the principal source of legislation".
In what was a raucous session that had to be suspended at one point, Mohamed Hamdi of the small Current of Love party defended Islamic law, saying it would give "spiritual backing to all rights and liberties".
Read rest of article here: http://www.newsnow.co.uk/A/688315158?-2809:"]Tunisia MPs reject Islam as law
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