...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....
has called on Sunni Moslems to join the rebels fighting the Syrian regime, as he lashed out at Leb's Hizbullah for sending its men to fight the mostly-Sunni bully boyz in Syria.
Qaradawi, a controversial figure in the West but who has millions of supporters, mostly from the Moslem Brüderbund, also hit out at Iran for backing the Syrian regime of
Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneckal-Assad
Before going into the family business Pencilneck was an eye doctor. If he'd stuck with it he'd have had a good practice by now...
"Every Moslem trained to fight and capable of doing that (must) make himself available" to support the Syrian rebels, the holy man said at a rally in Doha late Friday.
"Iran is pushing forward arms and men (to back the Syrian regime), so why do we stand idle?" he said, branding Hizbullah, which means the party of God in Arabic, as the "party of Satan".
Hizbullah, a close ally of Iran and the Syrian regime, is openly engaged in the fight against the rebels in Syria. It has also fought for years against Israel, arch rival of Iran and Syria.
"The leader of the party of the Satan comes to fight the Sunnis... Now we know what the Iranians want... They want continued massacres to kill Sunnis," Qaradawi said.
"How could 100 million Shiites (worldwide) defeat 1.7 billion (Sunnis)?" he exclaimed, "only because (Sunni) Moslems are weak".
The holy man blamed himself for previously backing Hizbullah and its leader His Eminence Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah
The satrap of the Medes and the Persians in Leb...
who gained popularity after steadfastly leading his group in the fight against Israel in 2006.