The Al-Azhar’s newspaper Sawt Al-Azhar (Voice of Al-Azhar) page on Facebook published part of an interview with the Al-Azhar Grand Sheikh Ahmed al-Tayeb that took place in 2019, talking about Al-Azhar’s position on wife-beating and beating others in general, after the issue was recently raised. The page said that it published “the part that MBC Masr did not want to broadcast”, while discussing the issue of beating, especially wife beating, and Al-Azhar’s position on it. “I hope to live until I see that beating an Arab Muslim is a crime, and the one who hits is punished like a criminal,” he added. There is no such thing as beating with conditions with the aim of discipline, and there is no such thing as beating with a Miswak,” he continued. Editor-in-chief of “Sawt Al-Azhar” newspaper, Ahmed al-Sawy, responded to the statements of the President of the National Council for Women, Maya Morsy, where she attacked Tayeb.

Source: Egypt Independent February 03, 2022 19:55 UTC