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CNN Transcript Mar 1, 2009 2009

The photo of the pope kissing Sheik Ahmed el-Tayeb of Cairo's al-Azhar institute, the pre-eminent theological school of Sunni Islam, had been on Benetton's website all day but was pulled about an hour after the Vatican's protest.

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For the time being, the Muslim Brotherhood wants to ensure that al-Azhar does not reflexively support a government which they do not control.

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The head of the al-Azhar Islamic university, the chief qadi, the clerics of different mosques, are government-appointed.

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Clearly, the Muslim Brotherhood does wish to seize control of Egypt's Islamic institutions, and they have been infiltrating al-Azhar for many years, with considerable success among faculty, but not at the highest levels of authority, due to government appointment of the Grand Shaykh, etc.

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His comments came one day after al-Azhar, the primary seat of Islamic learning in the Sunni Muslim world, said it was halting the biannual inter-religious dialogue with the Vatican.

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The Grand Sheikh of al-Azhar, Ahmed el-Tayeb, says his words were distorted and stressed that, "no one is above the law."

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More prestigious still, his grandfather was the Grand Imam of al-Azhar, Egypt's and Sunni Islam's most revered university.

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A picture of Pope Benedict XVI embracing Sheik Ahmed al-Tayeb , the imam of the al-Azhar mosque in Cairo, was hung from a bridge near the Vatican early Wednesday.

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Should the Muslim Brotherhood subsequently come to dominate the government, I would expect them to reassert government authority over al-Azhar

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