While the West gets pounded with emotionally charged accusations of historic colonialism and the Crusades, brute slavery is happening today, while willful blindness prevails in the face of political correctness. A female Al-Azhar University theology professor, Suad Saleh, described the rules of historic Islamic ownership of women and girls captured in war. She stated, according […]
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 […]
Leading Muslim body calls airing of Muhammad cartoons “odious terrorist act”
A lack of perspective and common sense that increasingly afflicts not just al-Azhar, but the entire world. Just for the record: drawing or publishing or displaying cartoons is an innocuous act by any objective standard. Murdering people who do those things — that’s an odious terrorist act. “Key Muslim body Al-Azhar condemns ‘sick’ Mohammed cartoons,” […]
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 Sheikh: “Islam cannot prevail and spread by means of weapons”
Al-Tayeb says here that “what the Islamist armed movements are doing is wrong.” However, rejoicing over his “moderation” may be premature: 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 […]
Islamic State relied on Egyptian-Salafi book to behead 21 Copts in Libya
Dr. Ahmed Karima, professor of Sharia at Al Azhar University, Egypt, recently exposed the fact that the Islamic State received its justification to slaughter 21 Coptic Christians in Libya from a book titled (in translation) Christians in the Koran. The author of said book is Mahmoud Lutfi ‘Amr—president of Damanhur’s Ansar al-Sunna al-Muhammadiya, that is, […]
State Dept tweets speech by Muslim cleric who blames Mideast unrest on “world Zionism”
The people at State who are responsible for this probably didn’t see anything amiss. They probably believe much the same thing, even if they wouldn’t state it in the same lurid terms: they likely think that if Israel would just go away, peace would prevail in the Middle East. “State Department Tweets Speech by Cleric […]
Egyptian TV host: Nobody dares admit that the Islamic State’s crimes are based on Islamic sources
Will the international media and Barack Obama now excoriate Ibrahim Issa for “blaming all Muslims for the crimes of a few,” which is their knee-jerk accusation to anyone who dares suggest that Islamic sacred texts contain incitement to hatred and violence? Will an investigation be opened into “Islamophobia” on Egyptian television? “Egyptian TV Host Ibrahim […]
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 […]