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==Proclamations==
Following [[Pope Benedict XVI]]'s [[Regensburg lecture|quotation of a Byzantine emperor in a lecture]], the Grand Mufti called the pope's statement "lies", adding that they "show that reconciliation between religions is impossible".<ref>[http://www.netzeitung.de/spezial/derpapst/440836.html "
In 2007, the Grand Mufti announced plans to demolish the [[Green Dome]] and flatten the dome.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/mecca-for-the-rich-islams-holiest-site-turning-into-vegas-2360114.html|quote=A pamphlet published in 2007 by the Saudi Ministry of Islamic Affairs, endorsed by Abdulaziz Al Sheikh, the Grand Mufti of Saudi Arabia, stated that "the green dome shall be demolished and the three graves flattened in the Prophet's Masjid".|title=Mecca for the rich: Islam's holiest site 'turning into Vegas'. Historic and culturally important landmarks are being destroyed to make way for luxury hotels and malls, reports Jerome Taylor|work=[[The Independent]]|author=Jerome Taylor|date=24 Sep 2011|access-date=19 September 2017|archive-date=16 June 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170616174556/http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/mecca-for-the-rich-islams-holiest-site-turning-into-vegas-2360114.html|url-status=live}}</ref>
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On 25 September 2015, one day after the [[2015 Mina stampede|Mina crowd crush disaster]] which (according to the Associated Press) killed at least 1,399 foreign Muslims performing Hajj, Al Sheikh publicly told [[Muhammad bin Nayef]], then-[[Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia]], that he was "not responsible for what happened", and "as for the things that humans cannot control, you are not blamed for them. Fate and destiny are inevitable." Prince Muhammad was also [[Ministry of Interior (Saudi Arabia)|the country's interior minister]], responsible for safety in Mecca, and the Grand Mufti's words immunized the Crown Prince from possible public criticism within Saudi Arabia, which set the official death toll for the Mina tragedy at fewer than 800 deaths.<ref name=AlJazeera26Sept>{{cite news|work=Al Jazeera|date=September 26, 2015|access-date=October 8, 2015|url=http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2015/09/saudi-grand-mufti-hajj-stampede-human-control-150926080554917.html|title=Saudi Mufti: Hajj stampede beyond human control|archive-date=September 28, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150928182940/http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2015/09/saudi-grand-mufti-hajj-stampede-human-control-150926080554917.html|url-status=live}}</ref>
In January 2016, while answering a question on a television show in which he issues fatwas in response to
In September 2016, the Grand Mufti ruled that Iranians are not Muslims and are "sons of the [[magi]]".<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/saudi-arabia-grand-mufti-iran-sunni-muslims-hajj-a7229416.html|author=Matt Payton|title='Iranians are not Muslims', says Saudi Arabia's Grand Mufti|publisher=[[The Independent|Independent]]|language=en|date=September 7, 2016|access-date=October 23, 2017|archive-date=October 23, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171023115812/http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/saudi-arabia-grand-mufti-iran-sunni-muslims-hajj-a7229416.html|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.firstpost.com/world/saudi-cleric-calling-iranians-non-muslims-and-deriding-zoroastrians-is-religion-based-persecution-2995110.html|title=Saudi cleric calling Iranians 'non-Muslims' and deriding Zoroastrians is religion-based persecution - Firstpost|website=www.firstpost.com|date=8 September 2016|access-date=2017-11-20|archive-date=2017-11-19|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171119154035/http://www.firstpost.com/world/saudi-cleric-calling-iranians-non-muslims-and-deriding-zoroastrians-is-religion-based-persecution-2995110.html|url-status=live}}</ref> The Grand Mufti was on a list of religious scholars included on a death list by ISIS.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.memri.org/reports/isis-launches-campaign-calling-kill-prominent-islamic-clerics-such-yousuf-al-qaradawi-saudi |title=ISIS Launches Campaign Calling To Kill Prominent Islamic Clerics Such As Yousuf Al-Qaradawi, Saudi Mufti 'Abd Al-'Aziz Aal Al-Sheikh, Former Egyptian Chief Mufti 'Ali Gum'a |date=February 14, 2017 |number=Special Dispatch No.6781 |website=MEMRI |access-date=February 25, 2017 |archive-date=June 28, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180628015920/https://www.memri.org/reports/isis-launches-campaign-calling-kill-prominent-islamic-clerics-such-yousuf-al-qaradawi-saudi |url-status=live }}</ref>
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