Al-Marsad newspaper: Al-Azhar newspaper defended a circulating picture of Al-Azhar Sheikh Ahmed Al-Tayeb during his return from a medical trip in Germany, with the book “The Fall of the West” by Moroccan thinker Hassan Ori next to him.
Al-Azhar’s defense came in response to Dr. Khaled Montaser, who posted the photo via “Twitter” and tweeted: “First, a thousand thanks be to God for the safety of the Sheikh of Al-Azhar following his return from a treatment trip or examinations in France, but I have a simple question and respectfully, the book that the eminent Imam reads in The American plane is entitled (The Fall of the West), which is the infidel West.
In turn, the editor-in-chief of Al-Azhar newspaper, Ahmed Al-Sawy, responded to Khaled Montaser regarding the book, saying that the Sheikh of Al-Azhar: “It raises the wrath of the pretenders of knowledge and enlightenment who have only read in the picture and their minds immersed in superficiality and formalism, and their perceptions of (the suffocation) in their minds and in which they use everything It befits what is not befitting the manner of the film character, my aunt France.”
He adds: “The truth is that the Imam’s interest in reading on this subject coincides with the great interest of great Western thinkers, writers, and research centers, which, over the last decade at least, have been intensely interested in coining this term and promoting it officially, until those who do not read the perceptions of thinkers, researchers and philosophers regarding the decline or Western decline have become Civilized, he is the reactionary who lives in his intellectual coma, and whoever reads and delves into this matter is the progressive who keeps pace with the world and the ideas it produces.”
First of all, I thank God for the safety of the Sheikh of Al-Azhar following his return from a medical trip or examinations in France, but I have a simple question and with all respect. A pill or a violin, we can go back to it! pic.twitter.com/lOJxYJlyey
– Khaled Montaser (@khaledmontaser) August 20, 2022
