Egyptian Secretary of Endowment Ministry Mohamed Al Ajamy praised the idea of the mosque school, saying that it managed to achieve notable success since it application. He added that the mosques will provide lectures to discuss the moderate Islamic teachings.

He added, “Those who are enrolled in these schools will receive a license from the Endowments, indicating that they have read the books of jurisprudence and interpretation, and that this leaves will only be for the hearing and will not allow the owner to be an explanation.”

He stressed that they will not overdo an inch of Muslim mosques in Alexandria, saying that protecting these mosques and their shrines is a responsibility that lies on their shoulders. He stressed that they will not waste any of them.

“They believe Sufi shrines are the most egregious expression of that [polytheism],” Alexander Knysh, a scholar of Sufism at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, told the New York Times. “You are turning to a mediator, who is inserting himself between the believer and God, and in this way it becomes a kind of idol.”

He has condemned the use of Islam and religion to promote terror activities and has said it is wrong to blame religion for terrorism. “Terrorism is an intellectual and psychological disease which uses religion as a front. It has no link to authentic Islam,” said the Grand Imam in a meeting with the Muslim Council of Elders.

“It is a clear injustice, and blatant bias, to tie the crimes of bombing and destruction happening now to Islam just because those who commit them cry ‘Allahu Akbar’ as they commit their atrocities,” said the Muslim cleric.

He added that terrorists simply use religion to promote their agendas. He also said that those who burn Qurans and attack Mosques are also “terrorists” and that these actions fuel terrorism across the world.