Egypt .. Calls to Strip Citizenship from Muslim Clerics for Coordinating with Israel

Former Egyptian Ministry of Endowments official and Islamic writer Sheikh Saad Al-Faqi described the visit of a delegation of European clerics to Israel as a "complete crime".

He said in televised statements: "It is regrettable that those who claim to be Muslims provide a religious cover for the occupier who kills children, women, and elders and violates the state of Palestine".

Al-Faqi added: "The clerics' visit will be a curse haunting them throughout time and place", calling on their countries to "strip them of their citizenship and prosecute them judicially".

He also emphasized that this "disgraceful" act will not change anything, saying: "No matter how hard the Zionists try to whitewash their image, they are detested and stained with blood.. Normalization is a crime, and they should have adhered to the principles of the Islamic religion".

Al-Faqi sarcastically asked: "Did the clerics speak with the Zionists about the besieged Al-Aqsa Mosque? Did they talk to them about the children who were killed and the women whose lives were taken?", considering the visit a "sale of consciences at a cheap price".

Egyptian religious institutions launched a scathing attack on the visit of European clerics to Israel, with Al-Azhar stating that "those who described themselves as European clerics" who made the visit "do not represent Islam or Muslims".

Al-Azhar Sharif mentioned in a statement on Thursday that it "followed with great displeasure the visit of a group described as European clerics led by the so-called Hassan Shalgoumi, to the occupied Palestinian territories, meeting with the head of the occupying Zionist entity, and their suspicious and malicious talk about the visit aiming to establish coexistence and dialogue between religions, turning a blind eye to the Palestinian people's suffering from genocide, unprecedented aggression, massacres, and continuous killing of innocents for over 20 months".

In this context, the Grand Mufti of Egypt, Shawki Allam, said he watched with "great regret" the visit, which he described as "blameworthy", carried out by a "group of individuals who market themselves as religious figures, who sold their consciences at a cheap price, and falsely adorned themselves with the cloak of religion", according to him.