By Mara Revkin,
17 February 2014
A member of the security forces in Cairo, January 28, 2014. (Amr Abdallah Dalsh / Courtesy Reuters)
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</p><p><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Egypt is not the first
country in the world to declare a “war on terror,” but it is one of the only
nations to have written counterterrorism into its constitution. Last month, an
overwhelming 98.1 percent of voters approved Egypt’s new charter in a referendum
marred by a heavy-handed military campaign to stifle dissent. The new
constitution further marginalizes Islamists from political life and enhances
the powers of the military and security services by, among other things,
banning all political activity based on religion and giving the military veto
authority over the president’s choice of defense minister for the next eight
years. But as problematic as those measures are, one of the constitution’s most
alarming sections has been overlooked: an unprecedented counterterrorism clause
that lays the legal foundation for a police state that is a military
dictatorship in all but name. <div>[toc hidden:1]</div>
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