Keep this in mind when Obama announces billions in new aid for Egypt during his speech to the Islamic world.

(MEMRI) — Following are excerpts from a statement by former Mufti of Egypt Sheik Nasr Farid Wassel:

Sheik Nasr Farid Wassel: The martyr Bin Laden, Allah’s mercy upon him, waged Jihad for the sake of Allah against the Soviets and against America.

There was a call at the Al-Nour Mosque to pray for the soul of Bin Laden since he is a martyr. But I said that we were forbidden to pray for the soul of a martyr, and that Bin Laden lives on. He is not dead. “Do not consider those who were killed for the sake of Allah to be dead. They live on, sustained by their Lord.”

Therefore, I said, immediately after his martyrdom, that he was a martyr, and that he had been killed by the enemies.