The only way out of our crises is to insist on the new national civil state project, based on the principles of citizenship, equality, the rule of law and human rights. These were the words of President Abdul Fattah al-Sisi addressed to the whole world in the UN General Assembly. However, if we think about the situation in Egypt, we shall find the opposite of this speech on the ground. This includes the official institutions, and the conduct of the people.
The religious armies, for example, are trying to seize the schools in various stages, especially the legions of Al-Azhar University and the Azhar institutes across Egypt. It spread to the majority of the schools of the Ministry of Education at different stages, especially the primary stage. Salafis control the curricula and the teachers. This led hundreds of thousands of young girls to wear hijab before they even understand what it is. Such religious appearance extended to the majority of state institution including the Minister of interiors that forced the women s police to wear hijab.
Furthermore, the Egyptian streets are full of Salafis with big beards and short trousers walking in front of their completely covered women from head to toe. Therefore, the Egyptian public transportation, media and beaches are full of such religious appearances leading to hatred towards Christian citizens and the prevention of their prayers in Egyptian villages and forced displacement of innocent Coptic citizens.
Such phenomena occur in the modern stae of Egypt that seek development and carry civilization of seven thousand years though the Salafis in Egypt are seeking to blur its identity in the absence of the rule of law. This has nothing to do with the speech of the president in which he said that the only way out of our crises is to insist on the new national civil state project, based on the principles of citizenship, equality, the rule of law and human rights. The building of modern Egypt is contrary to these Bedouin aspects of desert and Wahhabism. Long live Egypt.
