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Al Azhar Grand Imam: Dissociate Islam from “extremist attacks”

Nov 23, 2015 9:47 am By Robert Spencer

Everyone in the Western media and government establishment has already imbibed the dogma that Islam has nothing to do with Islamic terrorism; only the Islamic terrorists haven’t gotten the message. But al-Tayyeb isn’t talking to them: he is one in an apparently endless succession of Muslim authorities who call upon the West to stop linking Islam to terrorism, ignoring the fact that Islamic jihadists, not Western analysts, are the ones making that link.

Meanwhile, al-Tayyeb is playing the moderate here, but over the years he has justified anti-Semitism on Qur’anic grounds; called for the Islamic State murderers of the Jordanian pilot to be crucified or have their hands and feet amputated on opposite sides (as per the penalty in Qur’an 5:33 for those who make war against Allah and his messenger or spread “mischief” in the land); and broken off “dialogue” with the Vatican after Pope Benedict XVI dared to criticize the jihad massacre of 21 Christians in Alexandria on New Year’s Eve 2011. Al-Azhar was also revealed to be offering free copies of a book that called for the slaughter of Christians and other Infidels.

Sheikh-Ahmed-al-Tayeb

“Top Egypt cleric urges disassociating Islam from attacks,” AFP, November 21, 2015:

Cairo (Egypt) (AFP) – Egypt’s top Muslim cleric issued an impassioned appeal Saturday to disassociate Islam from extremist attacks, saying Muslims themselves had suffered most from “the catastrophe of terrorism.”

Sheikh Ahmed al-Tayyeb, head of Egypt’s prestigious Islamic Al-Ahzar institution, also appealed for an end to anti-Muslim violence in Western countries, such as attacks on mosques.

“Those who have burned Korans or houses of God (mosques) in the West should know that these acts are also terrorism by any standard,” Tayyeb said at a meeting of senior Muslim clerics.

“So don’t respond to terrorism with terrorism,” he said in a speech.

Al-Azhar, which operates a university, has regularly denounced violence by the Islamic State group and other extremists that this month struck Beirut, Paris and Mali….

“We expect from all — especially intellectuals and men of religion — not to be swayed by the might of these shocks from the obligation of putting things in their context regarding the complete separation of Islam… and a small minority that does not constitute a fraction of Muslims.”

“We Muslims have been through, and still undergo many times more these terrorist attacks,” he said.

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Filed Under: Egypt, Featured, Islamic State (aka ISIS, ISIL, Daesh), Jihad doctrine, Moderate Muslims Tagged With: Ahmed al-Tayyeb, Al Azhar


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  1. Jaladhi says

    Nov 23, 2015 at 9:59 am

    “We Muslims have been through, and still undergo many times more these terrorist attacks,” he said.

    Ahh, there we go again. Muslims are always the victims in spite of their murdering more than 300 million non-Muslim world wide in last 1400 years! There is no limit to the lies and hypocrisy of Muslims whether he is from the bottom rung of the society or from the very top such as this mufti from Al Azhar!!

    • خَليفة says

      Nov 23, 2015 at 11:42 am

      And you notice how he’s trying to redefine the word “terrorism” to include burning a Koran. How stupid is that. If I were stuck in a cabin due to blizzard and needed to burn something to stay alive, I would burn a Koran, Bible, Torah, the table, chairs anything I could – I don’t see how that in anyway shape or for would be a terrorist act.

      The fact that the two primary islamic sects, Sunni and Shiite consider the other heretical and have been killing each other for centuries is the proof that Islam is NOT a religion of peace and is indeed a false religion.

      • Jim Peters says

        Nov 24, 2015 at 10:47 am

        When the Imams proclaim that Islam has no place for terrorism, they mean there is no place for terrorism WITHIN Muslim communities. As an Imam, he can only address believers. His grace does extend to those of us in other religions. Peace comes only when we are dead.

    • Dr. Divinity says

      Nov 25, 2015 at 12:48 am

      Yes what we’ve got here is another imams preaching the sold story. ….”Muslims didn’t do it”

  2. Rev g says

    Nov 23, 2015 at 10:06 am

    Burning a Quran is terrorism? What of burning a Bible? Attacking a mosque is terrorism. What of attacking, burning, destroying a church?
    Now the hard question…..which of the above actions happen with the most regularity?
    Granted, I do not see destruction of the written word as terrorism, with the possible exception of government sponsored censorship campaigns.
    Just another Muslim playing the victim card, nothing new.

    • Jay Boo says

      Nov 23, 2015 at 10:44 am

      Burning a Qur’an might get the fire marshal to press charges but washing it in pig’s blood is fine.

  3. Jay Boo says

    Nov 23, 2015 at 10:10 am

    Unaccountable buffoon just like MO
    Of course he is Unaccountable.
    The Qur’an is not a holy revelation.
    The Qur’an is piggy Muhammad’s excuse manual.

    Muhammad had a convenient revelation to boink his daughter-in-law and another to allow himself more than four wives.
    What other holy book praises the owning of sex-slaves as being pleasing to Allah.

  4. Sam S. Ara says

    Nov 23, 2015 at 10:41 am

    Let’s think this through, shall we…

    If Islam is a religion of peace love and understanding…and if only a tiny fraction of Muslims are Islamists, then who are all of those refugees running from, and why?

    If the Islamists aren’t following “true” Islam teachings and aren’t “true Muslims,” then why should they care what any Imam says to the contrary, since they’re ostensibly already arguing and acting from an “untrue” standpoint to begin with?

    If the Islamists dismiss the Imams because, in the minds of the terrorists, those Imams are the ones who are in error about what constitutes “true” Islam, then why should the Islamists listen?

    And if, as the claim is also often made, that the terrorists don’t even give two-rat-farts about Islam at all, and are just about power, sex slaves, murder, and drugs (ie captagon and hash and heroin), then once again: why should they give two rat-farts about “true” Islam?

    The world has lost its damned mind, and technology, science, and reason notwithstanding, we are falling back into a Dark Age faster than ever. Except instead of horses and swords we now have chemical weapons, bioweapons, and nukes.

    It may take 5 years or it may take 50 years, but I don’t see our species coming out of this alive.

  5. miriamrove says

    Nov 23, 2015 at 11:00 am

    Look at his face. Do you trust that SOB. Taqqya in action. m

    • Don McKellar says

      Nov 23, 2015 at 12:12 pm

      But — he’s got a Santa hat on. He can’t be all that bad.

      • miriamrove says

        Nov 23, 2015 at 1:15 pm

        I love Santa!! And he is not demonic. This A …hole is. m

  6. mortimer says

    Nov 23, 2015 at 11:43 am

    Ahmed al-Tayyeb…spiritual leader of the Sunnite Muslim world…A supremacist who pretends he isn’t one…a big liar.

    What is al Tayyeb saying to us? “Let’s just ignore the 164 jihad verses in the Koran. Let’s ignore the bloody passages in the Sira and the hadiths. Let’s ignore the canonical interpretations of jihad and ignore blood-soaked Islamic history. Let’s ignore the 270 million deaths caused by jihad. Let’s ignore the fatwas, the treatises and the endorsements of jihad made by my predecessors as Grand Imam of Al Azhar. True, Muslims created all the jihads, but they are the REAL VICTIMS…believe me. And buy this lemon of a used car…”

  7. Beagle says

    Nov 23, 2015 at 2:32 pm

    Islam is the most successful schizophrenic good-cop / bad-cop gaslighting* operation in history. Muhammad’s aberrant and deviant behavior, yet still being viewed as the uswah hasanah (the ideal model of conduct), gives Islam a menu of options to choose from to achieve its goals. See, David Wood’s Stages of Jihad video for one important aspect of this ‘feature’ of Islam. But whether whining about a piece of bacon found on the ground, a poor endangered English copy of the Quran, or sawing the head off a Yazidi child, the loyal brothers are all striving for the same ends: Islamization and global sharia.

    This Santa-hatted expert on sharia may actually mean what he says, that acts of grotesque terror hurt his notion of advancing the cause of Islam. But his cause of Islam is still exactly the same as the head-choppers of IS, to convert the world and establish sharia. By mystifying the kuffar with a multi-pronged assault, whether those implementing the plan even understand its nature, it becomes nearly impossible to mount a defense.

    We, the targeted non-Muslims, try to separate the bad terrorist Muslims from the ‘nice’ Muslims who merely want to use our public school textbooks and lesson plans to convert our children to Islam. Presumably, we think, the peaceful Islamic supremacists are people we can appease and turn into loyal (in my case) Americans if we just cede enough ground. But loyal (and Islam demands loyalty) Muslims have the exact same Islamic supremacist goals which they approach in different ways, even if they think their goals are different than the other Muslims. The accidental brilliance of the plan is that nobody need understand how it works. And however a person arrives at believing in the schizophrenic core texts of Islam, the result is the same: newly-minted Muslims believing in the bizarre balderdash which passes for a great religion. .

    And the process goes on ad infinitum: the new so-called good-cop Muslims work hand-in-glove with the new so-called bad-cop Muslims to baffle the latest target unbelievers with BS until suddenly all the Jews of Arabia are gone, the Buddhists of Afghanistan are gone, the Zoroastrians of Persia are hanging on by a thread, the Christians in the Middle East are vanishing faster than the western Antarctic ice the Left is so obsessed with, and, soon, the Europeans of Europe will face the same fate. Many will never understand what ran over them.

    But hey, this guy says terrorism is bad for Islam. Bully for him.

    *Gaslighting: to make someone think him or herself to be crazy or wrong when being abused. How many man-hours have been wasted seriously pondering “Why do they hate us?” when the answer is “You’re the dirty kuffar, stupid.” ? People race from cartoons, white-gloving Qurans, bacon, foreign policy, books, ice cream logos, films, and shoe designs to reconfiguring college curricula in an effort to appease Muslims – all in vain because we’re still the dirty kuffar and they are not permitted to like us. It’s in the Quran.

  8. Jeremiah says

    Nov 23, 2015 at 5:09 pm

    If we follow the advice of the Mufti (or Obama) we can have all of our resources fighting a small band of adventurers.

    The war against Islam is not that complicated.

    1. We are fighting Islam, not Muslims. We should not fight all Muslims.
    2. Islam is an ideology based on the trilogy of the Koran, the Hadith and the Surra.
    3. Islam is taught in mosques and Islamic education facilities around the world.
    4. Terrorists attend mosques and Islamic education facilities. They are sustained by their organizations. They breed there. They are funded there. They use mosques to hide weapons. They use the religious structure for command and control.

    Close the Mosques.

    When we close mosques and education centers, jail radical preachers and investigate the remaining teachers, that will starve Islam at it roots. It is a relatively simple task to close mosques in Western nations:
    Islam is not a true religion. Islam is not a religion as we might define (or assume) in legislation. There is no altruism in Islam as displayed by other religions. It does not consider the welfare of others as its prime goal or even the moral health of the individual. A little analysis would provide a clear case that Islam is not a religion and has no such status anywhere in the world. It can therefore be banned and/or denied public support and denied favorable tax treatment.

    Furthermore, Islam is subversive of the constitution of any nation in that it requires its adherents to replace existing law with sharia. It is also subversive of cultures, values, etc. Therefore it can probably be banned under existing laws.

    The immediate concern is about what the reaction might be to closing mosques. Causing terrorists to come out into the open is dangerous but it allows us to fight them and to defeat them once and for all. We must engage the enemy. We are not doing that now because it requires political guts.

    Closing mosques is politically incorrect but it is essential for survival. Islam will always keep coming at us in jihad because it is written. In addition, the example of Mohammad is pedophilia and genocide. We need to rid this political nightmare from the face of this earth or it will take us down. 1400 years of terror, piracy and slavery is enough.

    • Jim Peters says

      Nov 24, 2015 at 11:25 am

      Our feckless leader, O’barry, doesn’t want anything to happen to the Muslims for fear of making things worse. Really great strategy. We wants us to be overrun and waiting around while the hoards come in is facilitating that goal.

  9. Richie says

    Nov 23, 2015 at 6:12 pm

    I like the Santa Clause hat, keeps with the festive time of the year

  10. ? says

    Nov 23, 2015 at 7:56 pm

    Watch and see, if someone asks him “does he support terrorist groups like Hamas, al shabab, ISIS, and the others“ watch him avoid the question completely… Don’t believe a word out of this fools mouth…

    This is the reaping 666

  11. Jacques says

    Nov 24, 2015 at 5:50 am

    Never trust Islamists, they hide behind TAQIYYA (Lying, Dissimulation, Hiding the truth, hypocrisy), that sacred religious practice of lying. When they profess of telling the truth they are indeed lying. Not all Islamists are terrorists? All terrorists are Islamists!

  12. Jim says

    Nov 24, 2015 at 9:25 am

    Dissociate NAZISM from the Holocaust while you’re at it…

  13. Angemon says

    Nov 24, 2015 at 11:19 am

    Egypt’s top Muslim cleric issued an impassioned appeal Saturday to disassociate Islam from extremist attacks, saying Muslims themselves had suffered most from “the catastrophe of terrorism.

    Did he explain why and how ISIS “misunderstands” islam? He didn’t? Then he’s just putting salad dressing on a turd and saying it’s salad because, well, it has salad dressing on it so what else could it be?

  14. Jim Peters says

    Nov 24, 2015 at 11:22 am

    We face a sociopathic, psychopathic religion. They proclaim a goal of peace( as they define it i.e. all non-believers are dead, submitted or paying protection money) and speak of loving others ( only if you are Islamic, their idea of humanity is only Islamic humanity) and some of us suck up this nonsense. The Imams are telling the truth as they have been taught it or they are lying because they are commanded to do so. All of this means one thing: nothing they say can be trusted. Yes, I do believe that all of them will eventually go nuts because they only attack when they have the upper hand. When their numbers are sufficient, usually 10% or more in any society, they will act up. If they don’t act up, then other Muslims will notice and punish them. Don’t expect any Muslims to be “good” Muslims. Their law demands our extermination.
    The time to act is now. Barry says that if we attack them, we will only make them madder. By not attacking them, we are only making them stronger and certainly bolder. This Islamic evil must be eliminated. We have the ability but one man is stopping the military. Where is Congress and other leadership? Why is this happening right under our noses. The outrage of the public is being ignored.
    Do we have a King or a president who is supposed to answer to us?

  15. JAS says

    Nov 25, 2015 at 5:01 pm

    Maybe these muslim preachers should tell the muslim terrorists to disassociate islam from their primitive savagery and endless mass murder… they are the ones who scream “allahu akbar” while slaughtering innocent people! It wasn’t a western idea to turn islam into a murder incorporated branch office. Islam has earned the reputation it so richly deserves. Muslims can whine and blubber about being victims as much as they want, they aren’t convincing anyone… Islam is the most hideous, retrograde cult on the earth and it must be destroyed! Thankfully, every day millions more see islam for the grisly death cult it truly is, in spite of the obfuscation and lies of the ‘progressives’, liberals and defeatocrats among us! And now obama is herding more thousands of so-called refugees.. (98% muslims) into the USA to complete his “fundamental transformation all of our nation into a huge south side of Chicago complete with govt failure and rampant crime wave. Thanks, Hussein !

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