A known critic of Islamic religious values and traditions, who describes himself as a non-religious person,[43] Adonis has previously received a number of death threats in consequence of his denouncement by the known Egyptian Salafi sheikh Mohamad Said Raslan who accused him of leaving his Muslim name (Ali) and taking a pagan name, in a circulated video[44] he accused him as well of being a warrior against Islam and demanded his books to be banned describing him as a thing and an infidel.[45]