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Anti-Mursi chants cause clashes in Friday's Shariah protest
Egyptian girls hold posters that say "Islamic Egypt" during a demonstration by 
a Salafi group. (AFP)    

Al Arabiya with agencies

Egypt's Salafi and Liberal revolutionaries scuffled with one another on 
Friday's protest after Liberals chanted slogans against President Mohammed 
Mursi, Egypt Independent reported. The clashes came during the Salafists' 
Friday demonstrations in Tahrir to demand a stronger reference to Islamic law 
or Shariah in Egypt's new constitution.

The Salafis attacked the Liberals after hearing them chant slogans against 
Islamists and President Mursi.

"Oh Mursi, you spare tire, we will return you to prison," said the Liberals, 
according to the newspaper.

"They said freedom, they said dignity, but all we have seen is remorse," they 
chanted, angering Salafi youths more.

Sheikhs taking part in the protests managed to intervene and stop the clashes, 
the newspaper reported.

About 22 Islamic groups called for Friday's protest. The size of the protest in 
Tahrir Square -- up to 500 people -- was limited because the main Salafist 
groups decided to postpone their demonstration, an AFP journalist said.

The Salafi groups have called earlier for a protest on Oct. 25, but postponed 
it later on. The main Salafi-led Nour and Asala parties, along with the Muslim 
Brotherhood's Freedom and Justice Party, refused calls to participate.

On Friday, one stage was set in Tahrir and Islamists waved banners demanding 
the application of Shariah and the dismissal of the public persecutor, 
according to the newspaper.

Disputes over Egypt's new constitution, which will replace the 1971 charter 
suspended by the military after the overthrow of president Hosni Mubarak's in 
2011, remain unresolved.

Fundamentalist Islamists want the new constitution to have the precepts of 
Shariah as the basis for legislation, a stance rejected by liberal and secular 
Egyptians.

Contentious topics in the drafting of the new constitution include the role of 
religion, the status of women and the scope of freedom of expression and faith.

Article 2 of the draft states that "Islam is the religion of the State, Arabic 
is its official language and the principles of Islamic Shariah form the main 
source of legislation."

The suspended constitution limited itself to referring to Shariah as the 
"principal source" of legislation.

Ultraconservative Islamists had asked to replace "the principles of Islamic 
sharia" by "the rulings of Shariah" or even just "sharia."

Egypt's powerful and once banned Muslim Brotherhood, from whose ranks President 
Mohammed Mursi comes, has pledged that the new constitution would make 
reference to Shariah, but in terminology suggesting a compromise.

On October 23, an Egyptian court meant to rule on the fate of the 
Islamist-dominated constitutional panel instead referred the case to a superior 
court which has already expressed its opposition to the draft charter.

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