Time for Al-Azhar to be restrained

[newcastle]

One of the problems facing Egypt is the conflict between religiosity and the needs of a modern society.

Al-Azhar still has great influence with its clerics appearing on TV regularly. Unfortunately some of them spread disinformation which is so ludicrous it would be funny....but for the fact that many lap it up as fact.

Here's a classic from former Grand Mufti Ali Gomaa :

https://www.memri.org/tv/former-mufti-e ... is-country

The "message" of Al-Azhar continues to be that the "decadent" West is the source of many of Egypt's problems. It continues this line whilst, at the same time, condoning speakers and literature that support jihadism and failing to adequately condemn even such obscenities as ISIS.

"Al-Azhar, the foremost institution in Sunni Islam, refuses to declare the Islamic State apostate"

https://www.jihadwatch.org/2017/04/al-a ... e-apostate

Time Al-Azhar was consigned to the dustbin of mediaevalism.