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Sunni conference in Chechnya, Russia, Sunni clerics exclude Wahhabi Salafis from Sunni Islam | |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 73784532 United States 06/02/2017 05:50 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | For the first time, Saudi Arabia is being attacked by both Sunni and Shia leaders. The Saudis step deeper into trouble almost by the week. Swamped in their ridiculous war in Yemen, they are now reeling from an extraordinary statement issued by around two hundred Sunni Muslim clerics who effectively referred to the Wahhabi belief – practiced in Saudi Arabia – as “a dangerous deformation” of Sunni Islam. The prelates included Egypt’s Grand Imam, Ahmed el-Tayeb of al-Azhar, the most important centre of theological study in the Islamic world, who only a year ago attacked “corrupt interpretations” of religious texts and who has now signed up to “a return to the schools of great knowledge” outside Saudi Arabia. This remarkable meeting took place in Grozny and was unaccountably ignored by almost every media in the world. [link to www.independent.co.uk] Saudi clerics have reacted angrily to recent remarks by Egyptian Grand Imam of al-Azhar, Sheikh Ahmed al-Tayeb, who excluded Salafists from Sunnis during a religious conference in Chechnya, Russia. (Al-Azhar is Sunni Islam’s most prestigious and biggest university) [link to www.presstv.ir] |
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