Salafist Nour Party head Younis Makhyoun has said that his party would only withdraw from the constituent assembly, which is entrusted with drafting amendments to Egypt's suspended constitution, if articles addressing "Sharia and the Islamist identity of the state" are jeopardized.
Makhyoun criticized, in a televised interview on Tuesday, a statement made earlier by the constituent assembly spokesman Mohamed Salmawy that said that the constitution had nothing to do with religions.
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