In a lecture held at the Alexandria Sporting Club, the Grand Imam of the Azhar, Dr. Muhammad Sayyed Tantawi, and Pope Shenouda III, the Patriarch of Alexandria, called for the teaching of ethics in schools, in addition to a religious education class that should not be eliminated.
The two religious figures warned against eliminating the religious class because that would lead to religious perversion and immorality, and people would stray from religion and its values.