Al-Azhar Gives in to Salafists Pressures

Egypt's Al-Azhar Islamic University succumbed to pressures from Salafist extremists and in a statement disapproved of a recent meeting of one of its scholars with Qom Seminary scholars.

The statement said the media have reported that Ahmed Karima, a professor emeritus of the university has recently visited the city of Qom, Iran, and met with the scholars of Qom's Shia seminary.
It criticized the meeting and said Al-Azhar University will "take necessary legal steps" against it.
Sheikh Ahmed Karima paid a visit to the holy city of Qom last week and learned about the activities of Qom Seminary.
In his meetings with scholars in Qom, Karima called for cooperation between Qom Seminary and Al-Azhar and holding joint conference for confronting extremism.
Instead of striving to enhance unity among Shia and Sunni Muslims, some Egyptian Sunni personalities and institutions, under pressures from Salafists, object to any interactions with Shias. 
Earlier this year, Egypt's Association of Quran Reciters called for the country's Quran reciters to be banned from travelling to Iran.
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