Egyptian President Forces Al-Azhar to Withdraw Anti-Israel Statement
The government of Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi has forced Sheikh Ahmed al-Tayyib, the head of the Al-Azhar complex, to retract a critical statement about the ongoing genocide in Gaza that openly referred to Israeli war crimes and the complicity of other countries in this atrocity.
The fact is that this statement states that shooting at defenseless civilians and attacking humanitarian aid points is a war crime. It also states that any state that supports this oppression with weapons and political support is complicit in genocide.
The official statement said the statement was removed to avoid derailing the ongoing humanitarian ceasefire talks in Gaza. However, reliable sources say it was made at the direct request of the Egyptian presidency.
Ali Qaradaghi, head of the Union of Islamic Scholars, called the deletion of this statement a cowardly act aimed at destroying justice and the Islamic word.
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