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 the Palestinian territories. (AFP/POOL/Eddie Keogh)

Sheikh Mohammed Sayyed Tantawi, the smiling old gentleman next to Tony Blair, has stated that Islam commands Muslims to commit suicide bombings against Jews and against coalition troops in Iraq.

Nice tapestry.