Fathī Khatāb writes that negative generalization on salafism is not fair, because every Muslim tries to imitate what they call the al-salaf al-sālih or the good forefathers, but the new salafists, who emerged during the 70s, began to swerve into a stricter version of fundamentalism.

Egyptian workers, during the 70s, had to immigrate to Saudi Arabia as a result of bad economic conditions in Egypt, then they were saturated in wahabīyah, financed by a large sum of money, and after that spread these ideologies in Egypt.

It is a necessity, he added, to fight the neo-Wahabism because it poses a real danger on the revolution and ambitions for the future.