Head of Sunni Islam's Al-Azhar Says IS are 'Criminals'
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The head of Egypt's Al-Azhar, Sunni Islam's highest seat of learning, said Monday that jihadists of the Islamic State were "criminals" serving a "Zionist" plot to "destroy the Arab world."
"These criminals have been able to transmit to the world a tarnished and alarming image of Muslims," Sheikh Ahmed al-Tayyeb said.
"These fundamentalist terrorist groups, whatever their names, and their backers are colonial creations that serve Zionism in its plot to destroy the Arab world."
Al-Azhar is Egypt's top religious authority and runs a university long seen as the most prestigious center of Sunni Muslim learning.
It espouses a different school of theology within Sunnism than the radical Salafi views of the Islamic State and other jihadist groups, and has backed a government crackdown on Islamist opposition.
08 September 2014, 16:36
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this voice also accuses, primarily and rightly so, the Maliki and especially Assad regime who released the terrorists from jails and bought the oil that helped with financing ISIS and left them alone as they fought the other rebels for him, while he was bombing the hell out of civilians and branding anyone who opposed him terrorist like his pappy used to do in Lebanon.
09 September 2014, 14:27
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he couldn't help though but blame the jews.
even when the arab sounds just about right, he blames someone else for the problem of his muslims. they can never seem to accept responsibility for their own dilemmas, always blaming. always someone elses fault.
