Sheikh Al Azhar's Interview On Dream TV2

Honestly I am amazed , is this the Sheikh Al-Tayeb of Al Azhar !!?? Mona El-Shazly aired an interview with Sheikh Ahmed Al-Tayeb , the current Emam of Al Azhar in her show “10 PM” last Tuesday and it is must watch.

Sheikh Ahmed El-Tayeb

The interview was about the Alexandria Church attack and it covered a lot of points :

• Sheikh of Al Azhar is not angry from the angry slogans the young Christians at the Cathedral received him with on Sunday , on the contrary he understands their anger as Upper Egyptian ‘he is from Luxor by the way’
• The Mosque X Church race in Egypt must stop now.
• A historical fact most Salafi Sheikhs ignore : Prophet Mohamed “PBUH” let the Christians of Najran pray in his mosque in Madina.
• Muslims nowadays thanks to media and wrong concepts have introduced the priesthood in to their lives when they are asking for fatwas about everything in their lives.
• He meant every word he said about Benedict IXV’s statement , El-Tayeb wondered why the pope of Vatican did not speak about the murder of thousands of Muslims in Iraq were killed when his religion calls for Peace !!
• Still he will go to the Vatican if the Pope wants a real dialogue of peace and cooperation.
• His initiative ‘The Egyptian House’ will include all religions and sects in Egypt { Non Zionist Jews are mostly welcomed/ I do not know if he will welcome the Bahai’s or not}

Sheikh El-Tayeb represents in this interview the real moderate view of Islam. Despite he got plans to modernize Al Azhar to resort his role internationally and locally as moderate Sunni institution , I believe the good intentions are not enough as long as the Egyptian regime controls it.
Side note : I love how Mona reminded us wisely how the ruler of Egypt affects the relations between its people.

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