Each religion has its own beliefs that we can't see or touch as they are really private, but we do touch the practices of the believers of that religion, as such practices determine how people deal with each other. Such practices are of two kinds: Either good enough to help the community or bad enough to destroy it. Egypt has both kinds of religious practices.
The Islamists are currently in power, and the problem is they're trying to impose their confrontational ideology and their own understanding of Islam on all Egyptians even against their will. We should differentiate here between Muslims and Islamists. Egypt doesn't have problems with Muslims, but it really does with Islamists. Those Islamists have been trading on religion to achieve their own interests, and they only take the appearance of religiosity. On the contrary, Muslims apply the teachings and morals of Islam in their life without necessarily have such appearance.
Islamists think that they are the only representatives of Islam and call the other as “infidels:, but Muslims usually tolerate the others believing that God is the just judge.
Islamists think that they have to impose their ideology on the others by force, while the Muslims do believe in freedom of worship.
Furthermore, as Muslims believe in citizenship, Islamists think they are the only owners of the land and the others are only slaves and concubines.
The Islamists are those who incite sectarian strife every now and then, and destroyed security in Egypt by all means, following the fanatics such as: Ibn Hanbal, Mawdudi, Ibn Taymiyyah, Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab and Sayyid Qutb.
Today, Egypt is under the rule of the Islamists who try to change its identity to imitate Kandahar, and Somalia. But the Egyptian people with the Armed Forces, Al-Azhar, the Church, and the intellectuals will overcome those fanatics and their hatred. I tell you: Egypt will live and restore its glory; the blessed land won't be lost.
