[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Yusuf 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....
established the International Union of Moslem Scholars in Doha back in 2004 in order to bring to bring together Sunni, Shia, and Ibadi Moslem. However,
a clean conscience makes a soft pillow...
the union was quickly used as a political tool to prop up Islamist parties like the Moslem Brüderbund.
Egyptian-Qatar
...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates...
i hardline holy man Qaradawi was recently designated as a terrorist by Soddy Arabia
...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face...
, UAE, Bahrain and Egypt after years of supporting Lion of Islam groups and encouraging suicide kabooms.
The Union, which was established in 2004, set its goals to be civil rather than political, as stated by its president. But it appears in the statements of its officials that the union moved away from the demands of the people, and become a tool used for political reasons by its host Qatar.
The union recently issued a statement condemning the severing of ties between several Gulf and Arab countries with Qatar, describing the boycott as a blockage and siege and demanding it be lifted. The union also condemned the inclusion of Qaradawi, Ali al-Salabi, Sadiq al-Ghariani
...Libyan Moslem Brüderhood Grand Mufti since 2012. Issued a fatwa forbidding Libyan women from marrying foreign men. Issued a "fatwa against a UN Commission on the Status of Women's report because it urged governments to protect women and girls against violence" Aligned with the GNC govt...and others who were included in the Qatar-linked terrorism list, saying their designation on the list was done "without evidence or proof".
This is not the first time that the union has issued statements that violate its institutional work. Such actions were repeated a few months ago by a statement supporting the constitutional amendments that strengthened the powers of Turkish President Sultan Recep Tayyip Erdogan the First
... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him...
The union is financially supported by Qatar’s former Emir Sheikh Hamad Al Thani, and it has been based in Doha and has sought such populist rhetoric over the past 13 years since its founding to dominate the street and played an inflammatory role by issuing statements and positions of a partisan political nature, inciting chaos across the region in doing so.