Al-Sisi's military regime is shooting prisoners, and losing the war in the Sinai that it provoked by the bloody coup against the elected president, Morsi. Once Islamists in Egypt saw they would not be allowed to win democratically, they were motivated to join an armed uprising.

Islamists do not respect human rights either, but under a system of free elections it would have been possible to vote them out of power. Al-Sisi does not allow opposition at all.