Armed Islamist groups failed in a 1992-97 campaign to topple President Hosni Mubarak and install a purist Islamic state. Their influence has waned, but the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood, which seeks to implement Sharia by legal means, won seats in parliament last year despite police harassment. Saadawi's views run counter to many religious traditions. All Islamic schools stipulate that daughters inherit half as much as sons. Sometimes social fatherhood or motherhood is much more kind and nurturing than biological.
Islamic scholars forbid adopted children from taking the name of their adopted family.
They are obsessed with patri-lineage. They say I'm an atheist, but God to me is justice, freedom and love. God to those in power means a veil or oppression. Own ideas about Islam Saadawi says her father, a Sufi Muslim and graduate of the religious al-Azhar University influenced her religious views. He taught her that Islam was not based on ritual but the mind.