Right, even though Judaism predates Islam by 4000 years and Christianity predates Islam by 700 years.
A Glimpse into the Mindset of Sheikh Ahmed al-Tayeb, The Grand Imam of al-Azhar
Sheikh Ahmad el-Tayeb has repeatedly pronounced Jews and Christians as unbelievers on official Egyptian TV. He claimed, “a Jew or a Christian considers me an unbeliever and I too consider him an unbeliever.”
As Sheikh Ahmad el-Tayeb declares Jews and Christians unbelievers, an open enticement to killing and to terrorism, he simultaneously refused to pronounce (members of) ISIL unbelievers, but said “they are believers, monotheists and people of the kiblah (i.e., people who pray facing towards Mecca), and it is not permitted to pronounce a Muslim an unbeliever regardless of his sins.
In another lengthy interview about leaving Islam or reversion riddah, Sheikh Ahmad el-Tayeb stated that a Muslim who leaves Islam is a danger to society under all circumstances; that the act of leaving Islam is not a matter of freedom of belief; does not belong to civil rights, human rights, or civil law, but is a status in Islamic law whose punishment should be exclusively decided based on Shari‘a; that the Muslim who leaves Islam is lacking sight and insight amaa al bassar wal basira; and that reversion is a crime and a danger to .
When al-Azhar’s Sheikh spoke about current international terrorism, he held the West responsible saying, “the American veto concerning the Palestinian-Zionist conflict is one of the most important causes of international terrorism, for enticing terrorism and for even participating in it in one form or another.”
In another conference on the same topic of international terrorism, he reiterated that criminal terrorist organizations are executing worldwide schemes, behind which lies Zionist support which aims to destroy anything non-Zionist.”
Similar to what all Muslim Sheikhs do, Sheikh Ahmad el-Tayeb persistently attacks Judaism and Christianity, stating that both the Torah and the Gospel texts have been altered by the Jews Yahude and Christians Nassarah. In one of the interviews, he negated the existence of Judaism and Christianity as religions in their own right emphasizing that there is only one true religion called Islam and that Judaism and Christianity are mere manifestations of this true religion, Islam.
In one of his interviews, al-Azhar’s Sheikh explicitly stated that insults aimed at companions of the prophet Muhammad expose the person who said (such insults) to (be considered) as having left Islam, i.e., he considers any mere critique of Mohammad’s companions equivalent to leaving Islam and an act of enmity against it worthy of execution according to Islamic jurisprudence. (see links).
In more than one interview on Muslims in the West, al-Azhar’s Sheikh delineated conditions for Muslims to assimilate in the West; they are to keep their Islamic identity, culture and values, and to absolutely not deviate from their religion or Shari‘a.
Al-Azhar and its Sheikh, Ahmad el-Tayeb, hold a position that constrains women’s rights. When Tunisia recently announced that it was discussing equality between women and men in inheritance laws, al-Azhar issued a severely worded statement against Tunisia accusing the Tunisian regime of contradicting Islamic Shari‘a, and the Deputy of al-Azhar, Abbas Shewman, dared to say that equality harms women and is against their interests!
In the majority of his speeches, Sheikh Ahmad el-Tayeb condemns what he calls Islamophobia in the West. After every terrorist attack perpetrated by Muslims in the West, al-Azhar’s Sheikh issues statements warning against Islamophobia and against attacks on Muslims, as if the problem is Islamophobia and not Islamic terrorism!
Sheikh Ahmad el-Tayeb believes that Islam is a religion, a state, and a Shari‘a that should be applied. The ruler is the supreme imam of the Islamic state. This positions Sheikh el-Tayeb outside the framework of the modern secular state and places him within the framework of a religious state that governs according to Islamic Shari‘a, and solely within Islam’s values and culture.
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Right, even though Judaism predates Islam by 4000 years and Christianity predates Islam by 700 years.
Well that does it. If the Grand Imam says the Pope’s a good guy, I guess the Pope’s okey dokey.
I’m not sure bergoglio would differ with anything the sheikh said that you related in your comment.
This Pope is a dope.
The Muzzies will behead Pope Francis last.
Revelations 13.3
And I saw one of his heads as it were wounded to death; and his deadly wound was healed: and all the world wondered after the beast.
Imams have no idea what the difference is between consciousness and conscience, having little of the first and none of the second. The pope probably doesn’t either.
This Pope is not a Christian.