"The latest decisions by the Egyptian Ministry of Religious Endowments, including the one-theme Friday sermons, came to put severe restrictions on the preaching of Al-Azhar imams and clerics because they are apparently not happy with the current political atmosphere. The government wrongly believed that the preachers are apolitical. Their sermons and statements demonstrate that many of them sympathise with the Muslim Brotherhood and are politically active." Egyptian writer Amr Ezzat, Al Masry Al Youm, February 14, 2014.