Al Azhar is the “chief centre of Islamic and Arabic learning in the world.” Four months ago, the Grand Sheikh of Al Azhar, Ahmad El-Tayeb, declared that Islam was a religion of peace, stating that “Islam doesn’t seek war, Muslims only fight back to defend themselves.” Out of the other side of his mouth, he […]
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Grand Sheikh of Al Azhar declares: “Islam doesn’t seek war, Muslims only fight back to defend themselves”
“Grand Imam of Al-Azhar Sheikh Ahmed El-Tayyeb has called for embracing morals as the sole way out of the world’s crises….Islam doesn’t seek war or bloodshed, and Muslims only fight back to defend themselves,” El-Tayyeb said. Try telling that to persecuted Christians and other religious minorities. In 2016, El-Tayyeb stated that “unrepentant apostates should be […]
Grand Sheikh of Al Azhar declares that Trump’s Jerusalem decision will lead to jihad terror
In a shocking video-taped CNN exclusive, the Grand Sheikh of Al Azhar, Sheikh Ahmed El-Tayyeb, hailed by many Sunni Muslims as the highest authority in Sunni Islamic thought, made some eyebrow-raising declarations. He referred to Jerusalem as “100 percent Arab” under Israeli occupation; He stated that “no religion” will support the declaration of Jerusalem as […]
Muslims may wear and pray to the Cross to deceive Christians, says Al Azhar cleric
An Arabic language video of an Al Azhar professor, Dr. Salim Abdul Galil, is instructive of how that Egyptian institution sees the relationship between Muslims and Christians. In it he discusses Koran 3:28: “Let believers not take for friends and allies infidels rather than believers: whoever does this shall have no relationship left with Allah—unless […]
Egypt: Lawyer accuses Al Azhar of promoting hate for Christians
During a televised Egyptian talk show that aired on January 18, lawyer Ahmed ‘Abdu Maher called for the “punishment of those who author books that promote strange and perverse ideas in Al Azhar.” As with many others before him, the lawyer denounced the Islamic world’s oldest and most prestigious university for continuing to radicalize […]
Al Azhar Grand Imam: Dissociate Islam from “extremist attacks”
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 […]
Muslim cleric: “The Islamic State is a byproduct of Al Azhar’s programs”
Sheikh Muhammad Abdullah Nasr, a scholar of Islamic law and graduate of Egypt’s Al Azhar University—regularly touted as the world’s most prestigious Islamic university—recently exposed his alma mater in a televised interview. After being asked why Al Azhar, which is in the habit of denouncing secular thinkers as un-Islamic, refuses to denounce the Islamic State […]
Al Azhar Grand Imam: Islam religion of peace, cooperation, and mercy
Before you break out the champagne, declare the jihad over and start singing John Lennon songs, remember that El Tayyeb when he said this was probably keeping his fingers crossed behind his back. He has shown himself over the years to be anything but a preacher of peace, cooperation and mercy: he has justified anti-Semitism […]
Al Azhar distributing free book dedicated to discrediting Christianity, the “failed religion”
Al Azhar—arguably the Islamic world’s most prestigious Islamic university—continues to incite Egypt’s Muslims against Christians. Most recently the university was exposed distributing a free booklet dedicated to discrediting Christianity, chock full of direct attacks on Christianity in general and the nation’s Coptic Christians in particular. Christianity is referred to as a “failed religion,” while Islam […]
Al Azhar “freely” promotes slaughter of Christians and infidels
Egypt’s Al Azhar University — seen by many as Sunni Islam’s most authoritative voice — continues to incite enmity for and violence against non-Muslim “infidels.” (So much for President Sisi’s exhortation before Al Azhar that its sheikhs and ulema reform Islam in a way that makes the Muslim world cease to be “a source of […]
Al Azhar refuses to denounce the Islamic State as “un-Islamic”
For all its talk about “combatting radicalism,” Al Azhar University—perhaps Sunni Islam’s most authoritative voice—will not even denounce the Islamic State as “un-Islamic.” When pressed on it, an Al Azhar spokesman, Abbas Showman, recently said: “As an official entity, Al Azhar has never in all its history proclaimed anyone or any organization as un-Islamic …. […]
Qatar, Bahrain, UAE ban “Noah” film; Al Azhar says it violates Islam
This kind of censorship is routine when it comes to something deemed “un-Islamic” in a Muslim country. A far greater cause for concern is the self-censorship that the Western media increasingly practices in regard to things that offend Muslims: for example, the near-universal unwillingness to reprint the Muhammad cartoons, which despite the furor they caused […]
Al Azhar Scholar: Christian Copts Will Pay Jizya
During a recent interview, Dr. Mahmoud Shu”˜ban, a professor at Al Azhar University, made clear that the Copts, Egypt’s Christian minority, will pay the jizya“”what is often referred to in the West as an Islamic “poll tax.” According to the Al Azhar professor, “If non-Muslims were to learn the meaning of “˜jizya,” they would ask […]
Egypt arrests blogger who criticized Al Azhar
“Summoned for questioning by state security.” By Jailan Zayan for AFP: CAIRO — Egyptian police have arrested a blogger who posted comments critical of the country’s Islamic authorities, a security official said Tuesday, a day after a leading media watchdog ranked Egypt as one of the world’s top “enemies of the Internet.” Abdel Karim Nabil […]
Al Azhar Plans TV Channel to Promote Islam
From AKI, EGYPT: SUNNI AUTHORITY PLANS TV CHANNEL TO PROMOTE ISLAM, with thanks to Skeet Street. Cairo – The most authoritative Sunni Muslim academic body, the al-Azhar University, is planning to launch a satellite TV channel with the aim of countering “anti-Islam onslaughts” and fighting “radical Islamic thoughts” broadcast on other Arabic satellite channels. The […]
Al Azhar demands dhimmitude from Vatican: apologize for the Crusades
“Al-Azhar — The Vatican: Official apologies demanded,” from the Morocco Times, with thanks to LGF: Egyptian highest religious authority Al-Azhar has requested the Vatican to present official apologies on Christian crusades carried out against Muslims seven centuries ago. Sheikh Fawzi Zafzaf, President of the Interfaith Dialogue Committee of Al-Azhar, said during a press conference that […]
Al-Azhar says Sharia forbids joining Muslim Brotherhood, accuses it of ‘immorality, aggression and terrorism’
Entities all over the Muslim world has been cracking down on the Muslim Brotherhood, all while the Brotherhood and its affiliates expand their influence throughout the West. The highly publicized Holy Land foundation trial – the largest terrorism financing trial in the history of the United States — exposed an extensive list of Brotherhood operatives […]
Grand Sheikh of al-Azhar: Nothing should be more important than waging jihad in Allah’s way
“Reactions in the Muslim world to the recent publication of the cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad in the French magazine Charlie Hebdo were very harsh.” This was clearly evident, but it should serve as an exhibit of what normative Islam teaches regarding the penalty for blasphemy. Those who proclaim that Islam is inherently a “religion […]
Egypt: Grand Sheikh of al-Azhar refutes claim that Islam allows Muslim women to marry non-Muslim men
The issue of interfaith marriage has arisen again this week among several Islamic leaders, reflecting a tug of war inside Islam and renewed efforts to keep Sharia provisions rigidly in place. Supremacism and expansionism are central to Islam, while mass Muslim migration, globalism and the Internet have had impact not only upon Western countries, but […]
Al-Azhar Grand Imam: ‘We reject calling terrorism Islamic,’ stop using this term, it hurts the feelings of Muslims
El-Tayyeb is focusing on non-Muslims using the term “Islamic terrorism,” but what about when Muslims speak as if Islam encourages warfare and violence against unbelievers? Among the modern-day Muslims (and some from the recent past) who would disagree with El-Tayyeb’s statement are these: “Jihad was a way of life for the Pious Predecessors (Salaf-us-Salih), and […]