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| Qaradawi Says Sisi 'Soaked in Innocents Blood', Urges Vote Boycott |
| 2014-05-26 |
| [An Nahar] Influential Egypt-born holy man Youssef al-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.... on Sunday issued a fresh call to boycott the Egyptian presidential vote which ex-army chief Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, who ousted the elected Islamist leader, is expected to easily win. "Don't take part in electing a man who is soaked from head to toe in the blood of innocents," the Qatar-based backer of the Moslem Brüderbund said in a statement. The election on Monday and Tuesday caps more than three years of political turmoil that has seen two presidents ousted following mass protests, thousands killed in festivities and bully boy attacks, and an economy left in tatters. The now retired field marshal is expected to trounce his only rival, leftist leader Hamdeen Sabbahi, amid calls for a strong leader who can restore stability in the Arab world's most populous country. But true democracy, the ideal millions rallied and fought for in a 2011 uprising that overthrew strongman Hosni Mubarak ...The former President-for-Life of Egypt, dumped by popular demand in early 2011... , will have to wait, perhaps for a couple of decades, Sisi has said. Instead, he says he will work hard to restore the economy and fight "terrorism." Sisi has called for a high turnout in the election, billed by the military-installed authorities and the West as a milestone toward elected rule in the country of 86 million people. |
| Posted by:Fred |