It’s important to understand that division of Egypt’s population into Islamists and secularists is rather arbitrary. Thus, second article of the Constitution of Egypt, adopted in 1971 under Anwar Sadat (who was assassinated by Islamist extremists 10 years later) and remaining in force until 2011, declared Islam the established religion and Sharia – the main source of the legislation. This didn’t raise any questions, in fact constitutions of the majority of Arab states look similarly.