that doesn't surprise me. I don't get how you can ban how I think.

That is what one can expect when religion dominates the culture and government.

It's a weird, fucked up world

And they have mandatory military service for 2 years like other Middle Eastern countries.

Oddly, it's wrapped up in legislation to prevent violence against children?

[egypttoday.com]

“The most severe cases may spread the ideology of terrorist and atheist and extremist to the extent of destroying children's future and create a project of young terrorists recruited through organized criminal terrorist groups, working to destroy homeland and dissemination of terrorism," argued Azza El Ashmawi, Secretary General of the National Council for Childhood and Motherhood (NCCM).