Al-Watan newspaper’s reporter Muná Madkūr in an interview with Hishām al-’Ashrī, founder of the Salafī Committee for the Promotion of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice in Egypt; al-’Ashrī has got the American citizenship, his upbringing has Muslim Brotherhood backgrounds; however, he implements the Salafī ideology. In the interview he stated that the Committee is working on two phases, the first phase is that of admonition and reprehension, followed by the phase of implementation. While his stay in the US in 1980, al-’Ashrī was a tailor in Manhattan (he tailored suits for several American politicians, such as Colin Powell and other Congress members as he claims). He intends to prohibit all kinds of art and set special conditions on international tourism into Egypt: