Egypt's Morsi Announces Time for Referendum on Fresh Charter.

Egypt President Mohamed Morsi has set the date of December 15 for just a national referendum on the controversial new constitution that has sparked large protests. The president announced this date after Egypt's Islamist-dominated assemblage handed its final draft from the constitution to him on Saturday. The draft retains this principles of Islamic law been the main source of legislation.

Earlier Saturday, tens of thousands involving Islamists demonstrated across Egypt in support of Morsi and the write constitution. Supporters gathered at Cairo University and in other places, waving Egyptian flags, banners and demanding this implementation of what they will called "God's law.

Activists from both this Muslim Brotherhood group as well as the more hardline Salafist Nour Celebration led the crowd in chants of "the people would like to apply God's law. " Islamist supporters of Morsi insist the new constitution must be determined by Islamic sharia law.
The rump committee that drafted Egypt's proposed fresh constitution Friday is supposed to present the document to Morsi in a matter of hours. The Secular and liberal members have withdrawn in the committee, complaining that the Islamists are over-represented inside group, and dominating it's work.

Sheikh Younes Makhloun, a Salafist member of the constitutional committee, defended its work prior to crowd at Cairo College or university.

Makhloun said what they calls "God's law, or Islamic sharia regulation, should be the groundwork of Egypt's legal program, since Egypt is the Muslim nation and have to follow the precepts involving Islam.

At the exact same time, a smaller masses of Morsi's opponents protested in Cairo's Tahrir Square, on occasion chanting slogans against him as well as the proposed constitution. Members involving 35 secular, liberal and leftist groups that assist the protest are carrying on with a sit-in there, but for now there was no call for a mass demonstration in this square on Saturday.

Tareq, a little daughter demonstrator, said many people in the opposition stayed away from Saturday's protests to stop pro-Morsi crowds.

A large crowd of the opposition protesters turned out for the groups' march on Tuesday, Tareq explained, but concerns about feasible clashes with Islamist militants kept many people at home Saturday.

Fighting between supporters and foes from the president and the fresh constitution broke out on Saturday in Alexandria. Rocks were thrown on at the anti-Morsi crowd that had gathered at Qaid Ibrahim mosque in Egypt's second largest town.

A number of Arab analysts say the concerns about increased violence tend to be valid. They see this political situation in Egypt while deadlocked, with Egyptian society divided down the center between support or level of resistance to President Morsi.