[citation needed] In January 2009, on an Al-Nas TV show hosted by himself, responding to criticism from Yigal Carmon, Higazi declared: “I am an anti-Semite, I hate Zionism ...

If not for the Arab rulers, we would devour Jews with our teeth.” In 2009, he declared in a television interview that Buddhism, Zoroastrianism and the Baháʼí Faith were not religions but were "man-made schools of thought".

[4] The government of the United Kingdom declared in 2009 that he is considered to be engaging in unacceptable behaviour by glorifying terrorist violence.

[1] In an address that aired Al-Nas TV on July 11, 2010, Safwat advised parents that "our children sit in front of the computer and the playstation, and play games that will never lead them to wage Jihad.

[9] Cairo Criminal Court on 7 December 2013 refused to return a verdict and recused itself in another case involving Hegazy and Mohamed Beltagy citing "embarrassment" as a reason for its decision.