Compatible Quote by Ali Gomaa

Egypt now is a real civil state. It is not theocratic, it is not military. It is democratic, free, constitutional, lawful and modern.

— Mohammed Morsi

If you create enough space in Egypt, civil society will revive itself, and then will you have all of these secular forces, liberals, nationalists…

— Hisham Melhem

In fact all the Islamists, that is the reformists not the Salafis, now they all say that they want a civil state, a civil…

— Tariq Ramadan

“civic, secular, nationalist frame of reference (devoid of any religious underpinnings) would face immense challenges in today's highly religious Egyptian society.”

— Tarek Osman

Egypt is a sovereign nation.

— William Hague

The term 'Muslim Brotherhood'... is an umbrella term for a variety of movements: in the case of Egypt, a very heterogeneous group, largely secular,…

— James Clapper

The good thing about Egypt is, between the two World Wars, Egypt was - had a liberal society. It has a political life. It…

— Hisham Melhem

“Egypt is now a deeply conservative country that, over the past two decades, has so pervasively succumbed to the Wahhabi customs promoted by the…

— John R. Bradley

Egypt is the most populous Arab nation, the seat of Sunni Islamic doctrine, and has tremendous political, religious and social influence on the rest…

— Richard Engel

“Brotherhood extended its social reach and infrastructure into a much more developed political platform. In the late 1990s, the traditionally vague Muslim Brotherhood proposed…

— Tarek Osman

“So effective has their propaganda been that an American official was moved to describe the Brotherhood as “a loose network of secular groups.”27 This…

— John R. Bradley

Egypt, once a melting pot of peoples, classes, cultures and religions, has, after 30 years of Mubarak's rule, become a place of intolerance and…

— Shereen El Feki