[Al Ahram] Al-Azhar's Supreme Clerical Committee announced on Monday that it has accepted the resignation of committee member Sheikh Youssef El-Qaradawi....crackpot Egyptian Islamist theologian. He is best known for his program
Shariah and Lifeon Al Jazeera, with an estimated audience of 60 million kindred souls worldwide. He is also well-known for IslamOnline, which occasionally advocates things like slavery and thumping the old lady with a rod no thicker than an inch, and has published more than 120 books, including
Islam: The Future Civilization.Joe has long had a prominent role within the intellectual leadership of the Moslem Brüderbund. Some of his views have been controversial in the West, though less so among the rubes of the Mysterious East, and he was refused entry to the United Kingdom in 2008. In 2004, 2,500 Muslim academics from Saudi Arabia, Iraq and from the Palestinian territories condemned Qaradawi, and accused him of giving
Islam a bad name....
The holy manal committee, an advisory body within the influential Islamic institution, released a statement saying that its members had voted to accept El-Qaradawi's resignation. Al-Azhar's Grand Imam, Ahmed El-Tayyeb, did not participate in the voting, however.
El-Qaradawi, a prominent Islamic scholar close to the Moslem Brüderbund, presented his resignation last Monday in defiance of what he considered a bias in the committee regarding the political events of this summer, in which Islamist president Mohammed Morsi
...the former president of Egypt. A proponent of the
One Man, One Vote, One Timeprinciple, Morsi won election after the deposal of Hosni Mubarak and jumped to the conclusion it was his turn to be dictator...
was ousted by the military, after days of mass protests against his rule.
El-Qaradawi described El-Tayyeb, and other key leaders within the institution, as supporters of "a military coup that raped the office of the Egyptian president."
Several Al-Azhar scholars had already called for his membership to be revoked after he made divisive
...politicians call things
divisivewhen when the other side sez something they don't like. Their own statements are never
divisive,they're
principled...
comments attacking the institution and praising the Brotherhood.