Egypt’s Islamists will dominate the 100-strong group that will write the country’s new constitution, after parliament chose the group’s members on March 25. Egypt’s liberals said they would boycott the committee in protest.

“We are going to boycott this committee, and we are going to withdraw and let them make an Islamic constitution,” said head of the Social Democratic Party Abou el Ghar. “We are going to continue struggling for a secular Egypt in the streets.”

“We agreed that this will be a balanced committee and it will represent all views of Egypt,” he said. “But as you can see, there is no representation of secular Egypt.” The committee contains just six Coptic Christians and six women.

Members of parliament make up half the committee, with the other half being made up of experts chosen by parliament. Thirty-six of the 50 M.P.s are Islamists, and they also dominate the other half of the committee. Egypt Independent reports that the “Islamists picked their own as much as they could,” and that “[a]ll bankers and businessmen included in the assembly are from Islamist backgrounds, and the bankers work in Islamic banking.”

“The composition of the assembly is not ideal, and things are further complicated by the wishes of the liberals and the leftists in the assembly to withdraw,” warned one of the committee members, political science professor Mostafa Kamel al-Sayed. “This will mean the Islamists and their discourse will dominate further.”

“There’s been a major shift in Egyptian politics,” said director of research at the Brookings Doha Center, Shadi Hamid. “The Supreme Council of the Armed Forces is entering its lame-duck stage. At this point, no one can stop the Brotherhood.”

According to the Egyptian Gazette, the Muslim Brotherhood originally said that 40 members of the committee should come from parliament, and 60 from outside. It then switched at the last minute, so the Islamist-dominated parliament could grab more committee members.

This seems to be a typical pattern for the Brotherhood. First it said it would contest 30 to 40 percent of the seats in parliament. It changed its mind, and ended up winning around 50 percent of them. It shouldn’t be surprising that after saying it would not put forward a presidential candidate, the Muslim Brotherhood is having second thoughts about that too.

Watch as the Muslim Brotherhood takes Egypt in a radically new Islamist direction, just as the Trumpet has predicted for years.