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On Ashura Day, Al-Azhar criticizes Sunni ‘hard-line stance’ on Shiites

The BBC story on the closing can be found at:
http://www.bbc.com/arabic/middleeast/2015/10/151022_egypt_hussein_shrine.shtml

Here is reaction from Moqtada al-Sadr
http://arabic.cnn.com/middleeast/2015/10/23/iraq-shia-moqtada-alsadr-egypt

and from inside Egypt
http://www.shorouknews.com/news/view.aspx?cdate=24102015&id=609802a2-b60a-4770-852c-6c0eb52a0275

For the Azhar fatwa on Shiism (in Arabic), see
https://ar.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%81%D8%AA%D9%88%D9%89_%D8%B4%D9%84%D8%AA%D9%88%D8%AA

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