Statues of Birds on the University Wall

Question:
Your Eminence the Shaykh, may Allah keep you safe. There are lights on the wall of Imam Muhammad ibn Saud Islamic University, located on Al-Wazir Street, and above those lights are small bird statues. There are many of them along the length of the wall, and this is the beginning of the university. How do you overlook them? And what do people say? Some of the common people, when they saw them, mocked them. And how do you claim that statues and images are forbidden when they are present at Imam University?

Answer:
We have heard about this. We are looking into this matter with the officials. There is no doubt that placing statues everywhere is wrong, whether in a university or elsewhere. Any image on a wall, at a door, on a table, or in any place, there is no doubt that it is wrong, whether the image is of a bird or any other animal; it is all wrong. And there is no doubt that it must be removed. Yes.