Controversy over Salah’s Christmas greeting

Mohamed Salah unleashed criticism on social networks after sharing a photo of his family celebrating the Christmas holidays, as he has repeated every year since he signed for Liverpool, and this time caused discontent to many Muslim Internet users to the point that Islam’s largest body responded to the controversy.

The origin of this controversy lies in the Christianization of the Christmas holidays, which do not exist in the predominantly Muslim religion of Egypt, the country of Salah’s birth, as well as in most Arab countries, which have Islam as their confession. . major.

Salah’s social networks were flooded with criticism on the photo in which he appeared with his wife and two daughters, dressed in Christmas clothes in front of the Christmas tree, while some comments in Arabic supported the star of the Egyptian team. for this Christmas snapshot.

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Some of the users attacked the Egyptian player on social networks with comments like “a picture like this will bring you closer to the English, but you will lose many of your Muslim fans from the Arab world”, “Enough bowing to the West, you are a role model for young Muslims” and called him an “infidel”. Few comments supported or defended Salah.

In addition, many users attacked Salah for not supporting the teams of Saudi Arabia or Morocco in the World Cup and not celebrating events related to the Muslim religion in the same way; criticism to which the player reacted by remaining silent.

Dar al-Ifta supports Salah

For its part, Egypt’s Dar al-Ifta, the largest Egyptian Islamic advisory body, spoke on social networks about the controversy that is unleashed on every holiday related to Christians and indicated that “there is no prohibition in Sharia, to greet non-Muslims on their holidays, this is not a departure from Islam as some extremists claim”.

“Greeting the country’s partners on their holidays is part of good neighborliness, returning greetings and coexistence, and they are noble human principles required in Sharia and Sunna, practiced in the Prophet’s biography,” added he. the Dar al-Ifta statement.