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Ahmad Al-Tayyib is no radical on the fringes of Islam; he’s president of Sunni Islam’s highest center of learning, Al-Azhar University in Cairo, and the former mufti of Egypt. And he supports suicide bombings. Under the right conditions, of course. For example, when killing Jews. Notice the religious basis for ...
LGF, Video, MEMRI TV, Egypt, Al-Azhar, Al Azhar, Islam, Suicide Bombing, Terrorism, Militant Islam
The former dean of Al-Azhar University (the highest center of Sunni Islamic learning in the world) has issued a fatwa declaring that if a husband and wife are completely naked during sex, the marriage is annulled. It’s religiously sanctioned mental illness, on a grand scale. According to the religious edict ...
Egyptian authorities nabbed a suspected suicide bomber on his way into Israel to commit mass murder, after he generously offered to give a sick man one of his kidneys—because he wouldn’t be needing it any more. ISMAILIA, Egypt, March 19 (Reuters) - Egyptian security sources said on Monday a suspected ...
Egypt, Islam, Al-Azhar, Al Azhar, Terrorism, Suicide Bombing
Who says Islam denies rights to women? Egypt top cleric says women presidents okay under Islam. CAIRO (AFP) - Egypt’s top cleric declared that Islam does not bar women from becoming heads of state, denying press reports that had earlier attributed to him the opposite position. On January 27, the ...
Egypt, Islam, Al-Azhar, Al Azhar, Terrorism, Sheikh Ali Gomaa, Misogyny, Women's Rights
Earlier this week, shortly before Tony Blair arrived for his photo op with Sheikh Tantawi, Muslim Brotherhood students at Al-Azhar University held a demonstration wearing masks and showing off their martial arts skills: The Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood’s karate army. More at The Big Pharaoh: MB Militia? UPDATE at 12/16/06 ...
Egypt, Islam, Al-Azhar, Al Azhar, Terrorism, Mohammed Sayyed Tantawi
Britain’s Prime Minister Tony Blair (L) is presented with a tapestry from the Grand Imam of Al-Azar Mohammed Sayyed Tantawi (C) at his headquarters in Cairo. Blair urged foreign powers to back Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas’s call for early elections to break the political stalemate and factional violence in ...
Egypt, Islam, Al-Azhar, Al Azhar, Terrorism, Mohammed Sayyed Tantawi
As Rusty Shackleford points out, this story is getting almost no notice in mainstream media, but in the recent terror sweep in Egypt an American Islamic student (at the world’s highest center of Sunni ideology, Al-Azhar University) was arrested: American Among Terror Plotters in Egypt.