The new project of the constitutional amendments implies an explicit text that bans forming parties on religious basis to avoid exploiting religion in politics. Sāmih Fawzī hopes that the amendments will indicate a text dictating that the public atmosphere become secular and open for all citizens. He points out that many groups in Egypt do not find their place in public society because of the continuous Islamization of the country with all its governmental and private institutions.
Fawzī expresses that the religious parties are legally banned, but all the civil institutions and academies are basically being Islamized. This is accompanied by a general prevailing religious atmosphere represented in the way of dressing, talking, preaching and many other activities that involve Egyptians in discussions and arguments that are not their real occupations.
The author expresses that the whole country turned to be a big religious party with all its institutions. All the institutions in Egypt are religious, and the religious institutions became the container of all the other institutions. All the social activities are done through the religious institutions. Fawzī claims that the constitutional text is important but the case goes further. He tries to give some possible scenarios about how the situation will be like:
The political party may be formed as secular; however, in its practices and press discourse it turns to be a religious party. He further argues that it is not only those who have "Islam is the solution" as a slogan who use religion in politics; the government and the opposition parties do the same in practice and without any clearly declared slogans.
On the other hand if it is assumed that the political parties stay secular and they do not use religion for political aims, will it be the case in syndicates, clubs and other social institutions? Society is one sole entity and the public of the political parties is not different from the people living in society. As such political parties will be only secular in form, where as their members might be preachers of political Islam in their everyday life context.
Sāmih Fawzī furthermore stresses the importance of having rules that can guarantee a general secular context open for all the people. The first rule can be to stop the civil and social institutions from being preaching centers for the Islamic da‘wah. He mentions that many institutions turned to be da‘wah centers, referring to Muhammad ‘Abd al-Quddūs in the Journalists Syndicate.
The second step might be to lessen the religious mass media. He points out that the increasing "dose" of religious preaching in the different mass media and in the society do not play any role in improving the social system, pointing out what the present era witnesses of what he considers to be the worst moral degradation in Egypt's history, and that religious phenomenon is only in appearance.
The third step is to lessen the religious "dose" in school books, and stop referring to the War of October as a confrontation between Muslims and Jews.
