Top Muslim cleric lashes out against abortion, globalization

From his seat in Egypt, the leading religious authority in Sunni Islam has lashed out at supporters of abortion rights, sexual reassignment and globalization, saying they aim to “annihilate all Abrahamic religions.”

In a meandering address to a conference held Tuesday, Grand Sheikh Ahmed el-Tayeb, head of Egypt’s Al-Azhar, suggested that terrorism was not a local phenomenon but the result of an international conspiracy, one that includes “many of those advocating human rights, global peace, coexistence, freedom, equality and other concepts that are mandated in international charters.”

He went on to accuse the West of condoning Christian and Jewish extremism while only highlighting acts of violence committed in the name of Islam.

 

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