The committee has ignored the proposals made by the Coptic Church and human rights activists, who demanded the committee give non-Muslims the right to resort to their religious laws, and not to limit such rights to Christians and Jews only.
Followers believe the deletion of the phrase "civil state" from the text of the first article comes to satisfy the Salafist Nour Party, which threatened to withdraw from the committee, despite the committee’s agreement to resolve controversial articles through voting.