'Amr Khālid, Islamic preacher, said that Islam rejects the religious state because it makes a person holy and talks on behalf of Allah, which is rejected both religiously and politically.

In a European Union of Coptic Organizations for Human Rights conference, Khālid rejected using religion in politics because it influences the emotion of a person and force him to make something against his will.

He clarified that the civil state is not against religion, and that love, honesty and forgiveness are the basis of a civil state.