Egypt’s Al-Azhar Slams Desecration of Jesus at Opening of Paris Olympics
They depicted the Last Supper of Jesus Chris (AS).
“The scenes portray Jesus Christ (AS) in an offensive image that involves disrespect to his person and to the high status of prophecy, in a barbaric, reckless manner that vexes believers in religions and travesties morals and noble human values,” Egypt’s top Sunni Islamic institution said in a statement on Sunday.
Al-Azhar underscored its permanent rejection of all attempts to disrespect any of Allah’s prophets, the statement added.
“The prophets and the messengers are the best of Allah’s creation. He chose them and preferred them over all other creation to carry the message of goodness to the worlds,” the statement read.
“Al-Azhar, and nearly two billion Muslims behind it, believe that Jesus (AS) is the Messenger of Allah. The Quran reads, Jesus is Allah’s “Word through Mary and a spirit from Him” (4: 171),” the statement continued.
Allah also described Jesus in the Noble Quran as “honored in this world and the Hereafter, and he will be one of those nearest (to Allah)” (3: 45). Allah counted him among the Messengers of Resolve (five greatest prophets).
Muslims believe that disrespecting Jesus (AS) or any other prophet is a sin and a shame on the perpetrators of this heinous abuse and those who accept it.
Al-Azhar warned against the danger of exploiting global events to “normalize insults” to religion and promote homosexuality and transgenderism.
It also calls for unity which is necessary to confront this deviant and low trend that aims to exclude religion and deify lowly sexual desires that spread health and moral diseases, impose an animalistic lifestyle that contradicts sound human nature, and thus forcibly normalize it in societies by all possible and impossible means and methods.
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A group of drag queens and dancers performed a parody of Leonardo da Vinci’s “Last Super,” at the opening ceremony of Olympics Games in Paris, a scene that stirred the controversy and anger of Christians and Muslims worldwide. The ceremony organizers apologized to the Catholic Church and other Christian churches for this scene.
Source: egypttoday.com
