Cairo - Al-Azhar's Council of Senior Scholars, on Tuesday, rejected claims accusing it of fostering extremism and sectarianism and said that Al-Azhar's curriculums are the only guarantors of spreading righteous Islamic dogma. In an official statement released following a meeting, headed by the grand imam of Al-Azhar, Ahmed El-Tayyeb, to discuss several issues, the council described itself as "the only ones mandated to teach righteous Islamic dogma that spreads peace and stability between Muslims themselves and between Muslims and others." "The proof of this is the millions who have graduated from Al-Azhar whether in Egypt or worldwide and who call for peace, and it is a falsification of people's awareness and a defamation of its teachings to accuse it of nurturing terrorists," the statement read.