Sheikh Al-Azhar warns of risks of Islamophobia

Cairo - Grand Imam Dr. ‘Ahmed Al-Tayeb’ Sheikh Al-Azhar explained that the phenomenon of Islamophobia risks if religious institutions do not work in the East and the West together to address them, those risks will launch sails toward Christianity, Judaism and all religions, either sooner or later, demanding the religious institutions in the east and west to stand together up to the phenomenon of the abuse of Islam.

On Tuesday, ‘Al-Tayeb’, in his speech in the conference of Al-Azhar and the Council of Elders of Muslims, emphasized that critics of religions, atheists, and advertisers of the death of the gods, and the followers of communism and Nazism, and those seeking to bring globalization in place of nations and others, many of which are coming strongly and declare explicitly that the religion is the first to be removed from their way; because in their view it is the source of wars, there is no solution but to remove religion from the surface of the earth.

He continued: "These groups are silent the silence of the graves on those slain in the civil wars which were triggered by atheists and secular governors at the beginning of the last century and at the middle of it, although religion was not the cause of those wars, and that history has not harvested from the victims of religion since the era of pre-Islam to the present one-tenth of those victims who have been lost by millions for the sake of false prophecies.”