AFP, 8 Sep 2014 – Egypt’s Al-Azhar, Sunni Islam’s highest seat of learning, said Monday that jihadists of the Islamic State were “criminals” serving a “Zionist” plot to “destroy the Arab world.”
“These criminals have been able to transmit to the world a tarnished and alarming image of Muslims,” Sheikh Ahmed al-Tayyeb said.
“These fundamentalist terrorist groups, whatever their names, and their backers are colonial creations that serve Zionism in its plot to destroy the Arab world.”
