Muslim Council of Elders chairman and Al Azhar Grand Imam Dr Ahmad Al Tayyeb yesterday criticised foreign interference in the affairs of some countries – especially Arab – to turn them into a popular market for arms trade to provoke sedition and ethnic strife as well as religious and sectarian conflicts.
He also expressed condolences to the Moroccan people in the devastating earthquake that killed more than 2,000 people as he opened an international meeting on ‘The audacity of peace’. The meeting, promoted by the Community of Sant’Egidio, was held in the German capital, Berlin.
Dr Al Tayyeb pointed out the greed of some rich and powerful people who spread corruption on earth, destroy the environment, and hold poor countries accountable for the consequences of their crimes. He noted the grave and long-standing injustice, depriving the Palestinian people of their rights to live on their land, pointing to the silence of the civilised world regarding this long-standing human tragedy.
“World peace is closely linked to the peace of peoples, and that the logic establishing that the whole can be safe only if the part is safe, equally establishes that there is no peace in Europe without peace in the Middle East, especially peace in Palestine,” he said. Similarly, ‘there is no peace in Asia without peace in Africa, and there is no peace in North America without peace in South America’, he added.
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