During an open discussion at Cairo University held on December 2, Dr. Ahmed al-Tayeb, the Sheikh and Grand Imam of Al Azhar — and thus Egypt’s foremost authority on all things Islamic — was again asked why Al Azhar refuses to issue a formal statement denouncing the Islamic State of lapsing into a state of kufr, that is, […]
Muslim cleric: Christians must pay the jizya or move out
The headline to this Breitbart piece says that al-Maqdisi was addressing Egypt’s Christians, but actually he says: “Today, the Islamic state rules over vast areas in Syria and Iraq despite the campaign against it by the crusader infidels. Christians carry on living in those regions over which the Islamic state governs. No one has expelled […]
Egypt: Another Coptic Christian soldier dies in his military unit under “mysterious circumstances”
A familiar scene recently took place in Egypt: yet another Coptic Christian soldier was killed in his (Muslim majority) unit. Bishoy Nata‘i Bushri Kamal, 21, was found dead in his military unit in Cairo under “mysterious circumstances.” The military told the family that he was found hanging, and thus committed suicide. However, Sami Bushri, the […]
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 Muslim cleric suspected in Russian plane crash
Al-Masri is a former professor at Al-Azhar University in Cairo. In October 2001, right after 9/11, the New York Times called Al-Azhar “the revered mosque, the distinguished university, the leading voice of the Sunni Muslim establishment.” It quoted a Muslim cleric: “Al Azhar is the only institution in the world that has learned the moderate […]
Egyptian TV host to atheist: “We don’t want any atheists or infidels here”
This exchange doesn’t ever get anywhere close to being a rational discussion. Its very failure to do so, however, is yet another illustration of the deep hostility Islam inculcates toward opposing viewpoints: “Muhammad is the apostle of Allah. Those who follow him are merciful to one another, harsh to disbelievers” (Qur’an 48:29). There is no […]
The downed Russian flight and Sisi’s Egypt
I was recently interviewed by JD Hayworth on Newsmax TV. We discussed the significance of the downed Russian flight over Sinai — including how it ultimately belies ISIS’ weakness vis-a-vis heavy Russian bombardments — and the amorphous nature of Islamist groups in Sisi’s Egypt and elsewhere. The segment begins right around the 3-minute mark in […]
Georgetown’s John Esposito Shills for Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood
John Esposito, founding director of the Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding (ACMCU) at Georgetown University, has signed an open letter to British Prime Minister David Cameron opposing his invitation to Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi to Britain this week for talks. The letter stipulates that: While not necessarily supporting deposed President [Mohamed] […]
Egypt: Christian tortured for refusing Islam
A Christian man was abducted and tortured for refusing to convert to Islam last week in Egypt. Fayiz Fouad, a Coptic Christian, was kidnapped as he was returning from a visit to the St. George Coptic Orthodox Monastery in Qena. His vehicle was forcefully stopped in a Nag Hammadi village that he had to cross […]