On the other hand, a number of Azhar scholars and leaders of the Coptic Orthodox Church vehemently rejected images showing U.S. soldiers urinating over the dead bodies of the Afghan Taliban Movement fighters, describing the act as "ugly, barbaric and violating respect for humans".

Muhammad Ra'fat 'Uthmān, a member of the Azhar's Islamic Research Academy, said that the soldiers' peeing over the dead bodies is clashing with lip service about human rights and freedoms.

Archpriest Salīb Mattá Sawirus, a member of the Millī (Community) Council, called for bringing those U.S. soldiers to trial before criminal and international courts. [Ahmad al-Buhayrī and 'Imād Khalīl, al-Misrī al-Yawm, Jan. 15, p. 4]