{"id":3386,"date":"2011-06-07T16:42:34","date_gmt":"2011-06-07T20:42:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/news\/?p=3386"},"modified":"2011-06-07T16:42:34","modified_gmt":"2011-06-07T20:42:34","slug":"egyptians-want-advice-not-rule-of-clerics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/news\/2011\/06\/egyptians-want-advice-not-rule-of-clerics","title":{"rendered":"Egyptians want advice, not rule, of clerics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By ADELLE M. BANKS<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>c. 2011 Religion News Service<\/em><\/p>\n<p>WASHINGTON (RNS) Four months after the fall of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, a new Gallup survey says a majority of Egyptians want religious leaders to advise the nation&#8217;s officials but they do not want a theocracy.<\/p>\n<p>About seven in 10 Egyptians said clerics should advise national leaders on legislation. In comparison, 14 percent said religious leaders should have full authority in creating laws and 9 percent said they should have no authority.<\/p>\n<p>The findings, announced Tuesday (June 7), come from the United Arab Emirates-based Abu Dhabi Gallup Center, which monitors attitudes of Muslims worldwide.<\/p>\n<p>Even as they seek a limited advisory role for clergy, most Egyptians (67 percent) want religious freedom as a provision in a new constitution. A much higher percentage (92 percent) say freedom of speech should be included, and slightly more than half want a new constitution to include freedom of assembly.<\/p>\n<p>The report, titled &#8220;Egypt From Tahrir to Transition,&#8221; notes that despite sectarian violence in the country following Mubarak&#8217;s resignation, Egyptians are among the most religiously tolerant in Gallup&#8217;s ranking of populations in the Middle East and North Africa.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Two-thirds of Egyptians say they would have no objections if someone of another faith moved in next door to them, second only to Lebanon in the region,&#8221; the report states.<\/p>\n<p>The findings are based on in-person interviews with about 1,000 people ages 15 and older in late March and early April, and have a margin of error of plus or minus 3.1 to 3.5 percentage points.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By ADELLE M. 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