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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 475

Muslim clerics

Sudanese cleric Sheikh Abdel-Rahman Hassan Hamed issuing a fatwa in support of normalization with Israel (video screenshot)
October 20, 2020, 6:48 am
Top Sudan cleric: There is no general Islamic opposition to salaam with Israel
After Sudan’s leading scholars ruled against normalization, their peer Abdel-Rahman Hassan Hamed assessed that Islamic principles are more flexible, and wrote a fatwa backing ties
By Raphael Ahren
Ahmad Al-Tayeb, Grand Imam of Al-Azhar in his office, in Cairo, Egypt, in 2015. (AP Photo/Mosa'ab Elshamy)
March 3, 2019, 5:43 pm
Egypt’s top Muslim cleric fuels debate by deeming polygamy an ‘injustice’
Islam allows men to take up to four wives as long as they are treated equally, and the practice is legal in most Islamic countries
By AP
Sheikh Younus Kathrada delivers a sermon at the Muslim Youth of Victoria in British Columbia (YouTube screenshot)
December 26, 2018, 1:46 am
Canadian imam: Saying ‘Merry Christmas’ is worse than murder
Younus Kathrada tells youths in British Columbia they should be offended by tenets of Christianity, with which there is ‘enmity,’ adds: ‘I’m not saying go out and just kill them’
By ToI Staff
Iraqi cleric Sheikh Salam Al-Askari gives a sermon on August 28, 2017 praising Jews. (Screenshot/MEMRI)
September 22, 2017, 6:26 pm
Iraqi cleric praises Jews, says Muslims seen as ‘world’s headache’
Shiite clergyman calls on Muslims to imitate Jews, who ‘were killed and burned’ by the Nazis, but emerged to win ‘respect of the world through science’
By ToI Staff
Israeli security forces remove metal detectors at the Lions' Gate, near a main entrance to the Temple Mount in Jerusalem's Old City, on July 24, 2017. (AFP/ Ahmad GHARABLI)
July 26, 2017, 9:42 pm
The metal detectors are gone, so how does Temple Mount security work now?
Netanyahu wants cops to use hand-held wands to check all worshipers. The police say they’ll check suspicious entrants. In practice, almost nobody is going in
By Judah Ari Gross
A Muslim man prays in front of a closed gate leading onto the Temple Mount in the Old City of Jerusalem on July 26, 2017. AFP/ AHMAD GHARABLI)
July 26, 2017, 6:03 pm
Muslim leader says Temple Mount protests to go on until measures removed
Cleric says police to be in touch with lawyer from Islamic group about resolving situation
By Agencies and ToI Staff
German Chancellor Angela Merkel delivers a speech on the second day of the 53rd Munich Security Conference in Munich, southern Germany, on February 18, 2017. (AFP/Christof Stache)
February 18, 2017, 6:01 pm
Merkel to security summit: Islam is not the source of terror
German chancellor tells Munich conference that Muslim clergy must fight back against ‘false’ reading of their religion
By ToI Staff and Agencies
Screen capture showing Palestinian cleric Sheikh Abd Al-Salam Abu Al-Izz in a video posted online November 16, 2016. (screen capture, MEMRI - The Middle East Media Research Institute)
November 23, 2016, 8:18 pm
Palestinian cleric urges Muslims to rise up, nuke Israel
Sheikh looks to Pakistan, says his coreligionists should not expect Trump to bring about hoped-for nuclear wars
By ToI Staff
In this Feb. 3, 2015 file photo, Egyptian clerics from the Al-Azhar institution rally to denounce terrorism and show solidarity with the Egyptian government and security forces at a mosque in central Cairo, Egypt. (AP Photo/Mosa'ab Elshamy, File)
August 12, 2016, 12:42 am
Uproar over Egypt’s policy of state-dictated Friday sermons
Crackdown finds resistance as Sissi government looks to tackle extremism by controlling what clerics can tell believers
By MAGGIE MICHAEL
An illustrative photo of a cat. (Nati Shohat/Flash90)
May 25, 2016, 6:52 am
Saudi cleric says pictures with cats are a no-no
Member of the Saudi Council of Senior Scholars forbids photography in general, let alone with animals
By ToI Staff
Sheik Saleheoldine al-Moussaoui (Photo credit: Youtube screen capture)
August 28, 2014, 3:57 am
Spanish imam: Allah, destroy all Jews
In Friday sermon, cleric says all Jews, Zionists are by nature treacherous and war-mongering and must be wiped out
By ToI Staff
An illustrative photo of Egyptian women waiting in line outside a polling station last December. (photo credit: AP Photo/Amr Nabil)
March 16, 2013, 10:45 am
131 countries adopt UN plan to combat violence against women
In surprise move, head of Egypt’s delegation ignores Muslim Brotherhood’s strong objections and signs on to the initiative
Illustrative: Women wearing burkas. (Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90)
February 4, 2013, 2:41 am
Fatwa causes outrage on Twitter
Saudi cleric posits that baby girls should wear the Islamic headscarf to prevent sexual assault
By Michal Shmulovich
Tricia Burke walks over debris which washed up onto her property in the wake of superstorm Sandy, Thursday, Nov. 1, 2012, in Brick, N.J. (photo credit: Julio Cortez/AP)
November 2, 2012, 12:45 am
Radical Muslim clerics say Sandy is God’s punishment
Moderates rush to criticize comments, defend American victims of violent storm
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