Statement of the Al Azhar Islamic Research Academy on May, 11.

Al Azhar is also working globally through the Muslim Council of Elders, which is led by the Sheikh of Al Azhar and includes members from different nations of the Muslim world, to spread international peace. The Council, in cooperation with Al Azhar, has launched peace convoys to 15 nations throughout the world. Al Azhar has also established a digital observatory to monitor what ISIL publishes on social networks, where we discuss extremist ideas and refute their fatwas, that is, their religious rulings, in a number of languages, including English, French, Italian, German, Spanish and Chinese, in order to warn young men and women about the danger of ISIL’s ideology and prevent them from falling victim to that organization.