Not that it would be an unpopular move in Egypt where the majority want Sharia law.
(Daily Mail) — Muslim hardliners are set to push for strict religious laws in Egypt after their strong showing in the country’s elections.
A spokesman for an ultra-conservative Islamist party said that he was hoping to impose Sharia law on Egypt.
Final results in the first parliamentary election since the fall of dictator Hosni Mubarak will be announced later today.
Islamists led by the Muslim Brotherhood and radical Salafists appear to have taken a majority of seats in the first round of the vote.
If this trend is confirmed, it would give the religious parties a popular mandate in the struggle to win control from the ruling military and ultimately reshape a key ally of the West.
Spokesman Yousseri Hamad says the Salafi Nour party expects to get 30 per cent of the vote.
The Nour Party is the main political arm of the hard-line Salafi movement, which unlike the more moderate Muslim Brotherhood is a new player on Egypt’s political scene.
Inspired by the Saudi-style Wahhabi school of thought, Salafists have long shunned the concept of democracy, saying it allows man’s law to override God’s.
But they formed parties and entered politics after Hosni Mubarak’s fall in order to make sure Sharia law is an integral part of Egypt’s new constitution.