In his essay on Religion and Politics, Kāmel `Abd al-Fattāh writes:

Egypt seems not to learn from its past experiences; every regime that ruled the country over decades now, repeat the same pattern of mingling religion with state affairs or religion with politics. Egyptian political regimes still think that religion can be used as tool for protecting and consolidating its authority whenever required. Leaders of these regimes still believe that separating religion from the state politics represents a threat for the state, whereas the true threat lies in Islamized groupings who under the pretense of being religious or defending faith , they hide political agendas exclusively serving their ends. Hence, we could well come to the traumatic conclusion, that the Egyptian state is, for decades, one of the biggest entities trading with religion and deploying it to serve its objectives; religious groups use precisely the same whim.