The Muslim Council of Elders, headed by the Grand Imam Dr. Ahmed El-Tayeb, Sheikh of Al-Azhar Al-Sharif, condemned the show held during the opening ceremony of the 2024 Paris Olympics, which represented “an insult to Christ, peace be upon him, and to the lofty status of prophecy, and did not respect the feelings of believers in religions, morals, and lofty human values,” stressing its permanent rejection of all attempts to harm religious symbols, beliefs, and sanctities.
The Muslim Council of Elders said in a statement that sporting events should be a platform to celebrate cultural diversity and promote mutual respect among peoples, warning against the danger of exploiting these occasions to normalize insults to religion, promote destructive societal diseases that are outside of human nature, and impose a lifestyle that is inconsistent with sound human nature.
The statement explained that the Human Fraternity Document, signed by the Grand Imam of Al-Azhar, Chairman of the Muslim Council of Elders, and His Holiness Pope Francis, Pope of the Catholic Church, in Abu Dhabi in 2019, called on world leaders, decision-makers, thinkers, philosophers, religious figures, artists, media professionals and creatives everywhere to confront all forms of cultural and moral decline, and to rediscover the values of justice, goodness, peace, human brotherhood and coexistence, and to affirm their importance as a lifeline for all, and to seek to spread these values among people everywhere.
For its part, Al-Azhar Al-Sharif condemned "the scenes of abuse that dominated the opening of the Olympic Games in Paris."
Al-Azhar stressed in a statement on Sunday that "insulting Jesus Christ or any prophet is extremism and reckless barbarism that does not respect the feelings of believers in religions, morals, and lofty human values."
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