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Sunday 22 Nov 2015 - 09:42 Makkah mean time-10-2-1437
Image from Ahram online.
Cairo, (IINA) - Egypt's Al-Azhar, said in a statement on Saturday that it strongly condemns the "callous, terrorist" attack on a hotel in Mali's capital that killed more than 20 people, Ahram Online news reported.
The militant gunmen on Friday attacked the Radisson Blu Hotel in Bamako, before Malian special forces stormed the building and freed 170 hostages after a nine-hour siege.
The Islamic body Al-Azhar said in the statement that such "wretched deeds" has nothing to do with Islam, calling for "unity in the face of terrorist organizations."
Separately on Saturday, during a gathering of top Islamic scholars Al-Azhar, Grand Iman Sheikh Ahmed Al-Tayeb condemned the Mali assault and last week's deadly attacks in Paris that killed at least 130 people.
"Terrorism has no religion or identity. It's a grave injustice and a blatant bias to attribute what's happening now, of bombing and destruction crimes, to Islam," the senior official told the meeting at Cairo's Al-Azhar headquarters.
"Terrorism often evolves from social, economic and even political ideologies," he added.
Al-Tayeb urged the Arab and Muslim world to combat terrorism through education, media and a "religious discourse that mirrors the reality of Islam and Sharia."
SM/IINA
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