The Shaykh of Al-Azhar, Sayyid Tantawi, who has been out of it for at least the last 15 years and who once threw an ash tray at a reporter because she dared ask him a question that he did not like, is at it again. He now said that anybody who spreads false rumors about the health of Husni Mubarak is akin to those who slandered `A'ishah, wife of Muhammad.