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Top Muslim body warns new Muhammad cartoons will ‘stir hatred’
2015-01-14
Apparently they have not fully absorbed President al Sisi's message about the dangers to Islam.
[IsraelTimes]. Al-Azhar center says drawings set to be published in Charlie Hebdo
...A lefty French satirical magazine, home of what may well be the majority if the active testicles left in Europe...
magazine are an ‘unjustified provocation’


Islam’s most prestigious center of learning, on Tuesday warned that new cartoons published by French satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo will only serve to “stir up hatred.”

The drawings “do not serve the peaceful coexistence between peoples and hinders the integration of Moslems into European and Western societies,” the Cairo-based body’s Islamic research center added in a statement.

The latest edition of Charlie Hebdo magazine that is to go on sale on Wednesday features a cartoon of the Prophet Muhammad and mocks the Islamist gunnies who murdered many of its staff last week.

Al-Azhar was among the first Moslem groups to condemn last Wednesday’s attack on the offices of Charlie Hebdo by Islamist gunnies who killed 12 people, including five cartoonists.

At the time, it condemned the “criminal attack” and said “Islam denounces any violence.”

Earlier on Tuesday, however, Egypt’s state-sponsored Islamic authority, Dar al-Ifta, denounced as a provocation the new cartoons in Charlie Hebdo.

“This action is an unjustified provocation against the feelings of 1.5 billion Moslems,” it said.

“This [magazine] edition will result in a new wave of hatred in French and Western society. What the magazine is doing does not serve coexistence and the cultural dialogue Moslems aspire to.”
Posted by:trailing wife

#13  They would have to find one first. A sane Iman that is,
Posted by: CrazyFool   2015-01-14 20:23  

#12  West should support the most sane immam and get some counter fatwas going pronto.
Posted by: rjschwarz   2015-01-14 18:45  

#11  Another aspect:

Al Azhar is effectively the body that decides what mainstream Sunni Islam is and what it isn't.(*)

Given these statements why exactly shouldn't the great majority of 'peaceful,' mainstream Muslims share in the responsibility for these attacks by islamofascistic death squads.

They're just implementing Al Azhar's doctrine: Sharia must be enforced in the West.

(*) The same applies to Qom and Shiites respectively.
Posted by: Elmerert Hupens2660   2015-01-14 15:17  

#10  Moderate Muslims (if there are any) will not respond with violence over such cartoons.

Radical Muslims are already radical. The cartoons just push them over the edge so they are easier to spot and remove.

I see no downside to publishing the cartoons.
Posted by: rjschwarz   2015-01-14 15:09  

#9  The Egyptians are effectively telling the World that believe Western nations are subjugated satellite states.

In a sane world this would be the time for Western ultimatum to the Arab-Islamic world:

You will officially declare your recognition of and respect for the freedom and sovereignty of all Western nations. The declaration will be unequivocal and without reservation.

Failure to issue such a declaration will provoke a declaration of war.
Posted by: Elmerert Hupens2660   2015-01-14 15:01  

#8  Actually, as far as stirring hatred, you Imams have been doing just fine at that yourselves, with fatwas against everything, including snowmen, and your support of terrorists like MILF in the Philippines, Al Qaeda, ISIS, and Boko Haram.
Posted by: OldSpook   2015-01-14 14:27  

#7  Yeah?

Well fuck you and your goat raping shit stained prophet, asshole.

You can take your 7th century barbaric religion and shove it.
Posted by: DarthVader   2015-01-14 11:19  

#6  Publishing the Koran is the event that stirs hatred.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles   2015-01-14 10:47  

#5  Be careful what you wish for. It took the West far too long to react to Nazism, but the final results were not pretty.
Posted by: European Conservative   2015-01-14 10:39  

#4  If cartoons stir up hatred, whadda think massacres of infidels do? Keep it up and eventually you WILL have a war on all Muslims.
Posted by: Bobby   2015-01-14 07:35  

#3  "just how much more hatred they can possibly stir up."
These kinds of statements have multiple functions. Warning infidels not to insult their gods is a minor function. The major function is to stir up the base of would-be killers and recruit more jihadis without obviously appearing to do so.
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418    2015-01-14 07:24  

#2  Apparently they have not fully absorbed President al Sisi's message about the dangers to Islam.
WTF? Give them time & they'll take care of that "messenger" in their traditional Egyptian manner, a la Anwar Sadat.
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418    2015-01-14 07:22  

#1  ...Well, this dude is going to have to explain to me just how much more hatred they can possibly stir up. These monsters already commit mass murder because of cartoons, have children execute prisoners, and behead aid workers. I think they've shot right past hatred here and gone on to, "F%@k you, that's why." A couple more cartoons aren't going to make any difference except to the useful idiots who are still desperately trying to justify the actions of these barbarians.

Mike
Posted by: Mike Kozlowski   2015-01-14 07:18  

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