Al-Azhar Al-Sharif condemns these featured scenes at Olympic Games opening ceremony in Paris and sparked widespread international anger. The scenes portray Jesus Christ (pbuh) 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.
Al-Azhar underscores its permanent rejection of all attempts to disrespect any of Allah’s prophets. The prophets 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. Al-Azhar, and nearly two billion Muslims behind it, believe that Jesus (pbuh) is the Messenger of Allah. The Quran reads, Jesus is Allah’s “Word through Mary and a spirit from Him” (4: 171). Allah also described him in the Noble Qur’an as “honored in this world and the Hereafter, and he will be one of those nearest (to Allah)” (3: 45). He counted him among the Messengers of Resolve. Muslims believe that disrespecting Jesus (pbuh) or any other prophet (peace be upon them all) is a sin and a shame on the perpetrators of this heinous abuse and those who accept it.
Besides, Al-Azhar warns the world of the danger of exploiting global occasions to normalize the abuse of religion and promote destructive and shameful societal diseases, such as 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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