"There is a great contradiction between what is said by the Egyptian state and the reality on the ground," said Eissa in commenting on the sentencing of Egyptian writer, Fatima Naaot, to 3 years in prison for alleged blasphemy.
The state is "schizophrenic" to the point that (it feels) this is threatening it, he said.
In his Jan. 26 TV show, Eissa said the Egyptian state "says what it does not do." President Sisi always calls for the renewal of religious dialogue while the country is witnessing greater numbers of blasphemy issues than under the Muslim Brotherhood regime.
"Thinkers and intellectuals are facing imprisonment under the regime of President Sisi, who called for the renewal religious discourse," Eissa added.
He added that current state calls for development will fail unless the awareness of Egyptians is raised.
"All that is built by the state will go unheeded as long as sedition and extremism are prevailing in society, which has been hijacked by Wahhabi and Salafi ideologies," Eissa said.
He explained that the revolution of June 30 was made to get rid of a religious regime, but this has not been achieved on the ground so far. "Now views and ideas are confiscated and writers are jailed, because the revolution dropped the Brotherhood but left the ideology unchanged," he noted.
He said that the "sword of law" is used more harshly against intellectuals by the current regime than by the Muslim Brotherhood regime.
Eissa said he has been on assassination lists since 1992, explaining that he is not afraid of death and therefore is not afraid of prison.
"A person may give his life for his opinions and ideas, as terrorists sacrifice their lives for their goals and as army and police members sacrifice their lives for the sake of the nation and the security of citizens," Eissa said.
He explained that writers and thinkers also sacrifice their lives for communicating opinions and ideas, such as Fatima Naaot, a novelist, and Islam Beheiri, an Islamic researcher.
"The state which excels in jailing writers and intellectuals will fail," Eissa stressed.
Ibrahim Eissa is an Egyptian Muslim writer who always calls for purifying Islamic religious discourse and revising religious texts, which encourage extremism, fanaticism and terrorism. Eissa demands that Al-Azhar, the largest Islamic university in the Middle East based in Egypt, renews the curricula taught to its students.
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