:ore 12:14 ragazzi, non se ne va più …è un articolo del Telegraph on line con un’autorità religiosa sunnita moderata che che denuncia il nuovo colonialismo alleato di Israele per impossessarsi del Medio Oriente —sono riuscita a mettere il titolo!

Pubblicato il 24 Febbraio 2015 da Chiara Salvini

 

 

 

 

Telegraph.co.uk

 

Tuesday 24 February 2015

Moderate Sunni Islam leader blames Zionism and ‘new colonialism’ for Middle East collapse

Sheikh Ahmed al-Tayeb, the Grand Imam of Al-Azhar University, appears to blame Israel and by implication the US for chaos in Arab world
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Richard Spencer

By , Middle East Editor

8:36PM GMT 23 Feb 2015

The leading “moderate” authority in Sunni Islam has blamed Zionism and the “new colonialism” for the collapse of the Middle East, further undermining western efforts to secure the region’s stability.

Sheikh Ahmed al-Tayeb, the Grand Imam of Al-Azhar University, the premier source of religious authority in Islam, was speaking at a counter-terrorism conference in Saudi Arabia, as part of efforts to encourage the Muslim world to join forces against terrorism.

However, he seemed to blame Israel and by implication the United States for the chaos in the Arab world.

“We face major international plots targeting Arabs and Muslims,” he said. The plots wanted to break up society “in a way that agrees with the dreams of the new world colonialism that is allied with world Zionism, hand in hand and shoulder to shoulder.

“We must not forget that the only method used by new colonialism now, is the same that was used by colonialism in the past century, and its deadly slogan is ‘divide and conquer’.”

Al-Azhar University has been a key bastion of support for the regime of Abdul Fattah al-Sisi, the Egyptianpresident, whose overthrow of the Muslim Brotherhood’s Mohammed Morsi it backed in 2013.

However, despite western hopes that together they would be a force for “moderate” Islam, both the Grand Imam and the military-backed regime have promulgated the same conspiracy theories about western responsibility for the Middle East’s woes as many Islamists.

In his speech, given in Mecca alongside Saudi Arabia’s Grand Mufti, he used codewords for America like “the new colonialism” to suggest it was responsible for revolutionary turmoil both in Egypt and elsewhere.

“It is now exploiting areas of turmoil and sectarian divides, and it has succeeded, unfortunately, in tampering with this nation as its cunning and treachery and authoritarianism allows,” he said.

“The results of this cunning tampering were that Iraq was lost, and Syriawas burned, and Yemen is being torn apart, and Libya has been destroyed. There is still a lot up their sleeves that only God knows, and from which we seek refuge with God.”

All sides in Egypt’s internal conflicts between the Muslim Brotherhood, supporters of the army, and secular Left-wing activists have relied on a steady stream of anti-American invective over the years, despite the fact that whoever was in power was happy to accept American military support, including financial backing.

Egypt is fighting its own war against militant Islamism, both in the Sinai,where it is facing a long and bloody insurgency, and in neighbouring Libya, where it bombed territory held by Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (Isil) after the killing of at least 20 Egyptian Christians. However, the government is also in alliance with hardline Salafi Islamists despite the Salafi roots of Isil’s ideology.

 

 

The Grand Imam did call for education reform as a way to tackle the “misguided” form of Islam that led people to Isil.

“The only hope for the Muslim nation to recover unity is to tackle in our schools and universities this tendency to accuse Muslims of being unbelievers,” he said, referring to the way Isil dismisses its rivals.

However, Al-Azhar has done little itself to counter traditional views of Islamic practice. In condemning Isil’s murder of the Jordanian pilot Lt Moaz Kasaesbeh earlier this month by burning him to death, the Grand Imam said those responsible should be “killed, crucified or have their limbs amputated”.
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