The ban since 2014 has also included the Muslim Brotherhood offshoot Hamas. Since the Mohammed Morsi regime was ousted in 2013, Egypt has taken a hard line on Political Islam: it also closed 27,000 mosques under 80 m2, banned 55,000 imans from preaching, and has required all sermons to be approved by the Al-Azhar University in Cairo which removes any traces of jihad.