Top Sunni Muslim cleric condemns 'hateful' Paris attacks

The head of Sunni Islam's leading seat of learning, Cairo's Al-Azhar, today condemned "" attacks in Paris that killed more than 120 people and urged global unity against extremism.

"We denounce this hateful incident," Ahmed al-Tayyeb told a conference in comments broadcast by Egyptian state television. "The time has come for the world to unite to confront this monster.