No More Calling Jews “Pigs” (For Now) Sheikh Muhammad Sayyid Tantawi, spiritual head of al-Azhar University and the leading Sunni imam in Egypt, has convened al-Azhar’s Islamic Research Academy, which issued a new fatwa, or edict, regarding use of the descriptor “monkeys and pigs” in reference to Jews. According to the new ruling, it is now forbidden to describe “present day Jews as ‘monkeys and pigs’,” reports Albawaba.com, the Arab news web portal. This ruling would seem to represent a major shift in Tantawi’s view: last year, he delivered a sermon - like so many others delivered by various religious...
