Either their governments control the mosques, or the mosques control the governments.
Either the mosques are regulated by the gov’t, or there will be no gov’t, other than the range of the weapons controlled by any given mosque. Think of it as a Separation of Mosque and State.
When Mubarak ruled Egypt he did the same, Only government approved imams and prayer leaders were allowed to preach at the mosques, plus the secret police monitored what was said in mosques. That way, the radical Salafists and Muslim Brotherhood were kept at bay.
This is a turf war. Al-Sisi believes in establishing the Caliphate & the rule of Shariah law just like Morsi & the MB.
He’s just on a different schedule & hates it when ISIS & the mullahs in Teheran keep spilling the beans by waging apocalyptic warfare against “infidels”.
Hamas too is just another Islamic rival & Al-Sisi is content to let the Israelis do the dirty work of making them less of a thorn in his side.
Egypt’s not going to revert to its postcolonial secular past anytime soon. Let’s see how Coptic Christians are faring under Al-Sisi’s rule.
Bump that!