Posted on 03/17/2016 6:36:37 PM PDT by marshmallow
The Grand Imam of Al-Azhar, Sunni Islam's highest seat of learning, spoke before Germany's Parliament on Tuesday, addressing topics of interfaith dialogue and combating terrorism
The Grand Imam of Al-Azhar, Sheikh Ahmed Al-Tayeb, told the German Parliament on Tuesday that Christianity was the first to provide sanctuary to Islam, saying that without it the religion would have been eradicated at its inception.
"Christianity was the first to provide sanctuary for Islam; without Abyssinia [modern day Ethiopia] and its Christian king who protected [the first Muslims], Islam would have been destroyed in its cradle ," he told the Bundestag.
The sheikh was referring to the early companions of Prophet Muhammad, who fled Mecca to Ethiopia after facing persecution and torture for their Islamic faith at the hands of the prophet's enemies.
'Combating intercontinental terrorism'
The Grand Imam also called for unity to defeat terrorism and extremism, while urging interreligious peace during his Tuesday address to the German parliament.
Sheikh Ahmed Al-Tayeb told the Bundestag that Islam has never justified "terrorist crimes," stressing that Muslims have suffered the largest losses in what he described as a "deadly epidemic."
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Taqiyya and nothing more delivered to the gullible Germans.
Satan’s ideology should’ve been eradicated at its conception. Aborted without mercy.
Well then. That should make up for all the Rapes. Cool.
This must fit the warniing Jesus gave - don’t throw your pearls before swine, lest they overrun you.
Everbody makes mistakes.
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