Offenders of Islam should be killed, Egyptian Grand Imam says

A top Egyptian Muslim cleric Grand Imam of Al-Azahar Mosque Dr. Sayed Tantawy said today that the person who drew posters placed in the West Bank city of Hebron depicting the prophet Mohamed as a pig stamping on the Koran (the Muslim holy book) must be killed.

Palestinian shopkeepers found the posters on Sunday on about 20 storefronts near a Jewish settlement enclave in Hebron. Dozens of Palestinians took to the streets of the divided city in protest.

"Anyone who is proved to have drawn this ugly picture of the prophet of Islam … should be killed according to Islamic law," Dr. Sayed Tantawy, grand Imam of the Cairo based Al-Azhar mosque, Islam’s most prestigious seat of learning, told reporters.