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May 4, 2012 0

Qaradawi Beats Drums Of War Against Israel in Friday Sermon

Dur­ing his Fri­day ser­mon in the Qatari cap­i­tal of Doha on April 27, rad­i­cal Mus­lim Broth­er­hood cleric Sheikh Yusuf Al Qaradawi denied Israel’s right to exist and called on Arabs and Mus­lims to fight the Israelis.

“Israel thinks it’s set­tled on the land. And we say, by God, you Israelis shall never set­tle on our land. You will remain strangers, you will remain immi­grants,” Qaradawi said. “They must…they must return to their coun­tries, we believe in that, they can­not set­tle here….The Israelis will def­i­nitely dis­ap­pear and get out of this coun­try, and we are wait­ing for this day, we must pre­pare our­selves, and pre­pare our youth. We shall not surrender.”

After say­ing that the Pales­tini­ans “can­not fight alone” because “the Israelis have weapons enough to fight the entire Arabs,” he asked, “Why the Arabs are not fighting?…We call upon all to unite, to tell the Pales­tini­ans we are with you, the least to do is to say to the Pales­tini­ans we are behind you”

Qaradawi also expressed regret that while Mus­lims fail to sup­port their Pales­tin­ian broth­ers, Jews from around the world strongly sup­port Israel with money and weapons, and in pol­i­tics and the media. “The Jews in the entire world, all of them, with the excep­tion of a small group, sup­port Israel.”

Qaradawi ended his ser­mon, which was broad­cast live on Qatar’s offi­cial tele­vi­sion sta­tion, by pray­ing that God destroys the Israelis and enables the Pales­tini­ans to achieve vic­tory “over the ene­mies of God and [the Palestinian’s] enemies.”

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March 7, 2012 1

Dubai Police to Issue Arrest Warrant for Radical Qatar-based Cleric

The chief of police in Dubai announced plans to issue an arrest war­rant for the rad­i­cal Mus­lim Broth­er­hood cleric Sheikh Yusuf Al Qaradawi. The deci­sion comes in response to Qaradawi’s recent crit­i­cisms of the rulers of the United Arab Emi­rates (UAE).
In his March 4th tele­vi­sion pro­gram, “Shariah and Life,” Qaradawi said that UAE lead­ers shouldn’t treat their cit­i­zens like “slaves” and described the lead­er­ship as “…not Gods. They are humans with money.” He also crit­i­cized the UAE’s posi­tion on the upris­ing in Syria and accused the author­i­ties of deport­ing Syr­i­ans who oppose the regime of Pres­i­dent Bashar Al Assad.
Qaradawi, who lives in Qatar, is banned from vis­it­ing the UAE but that didn’t seem to deter him. He specif­i­cally said: “If I can’t go to Emi­rates, then I can talk to them from this platform.”
The UAE is a Gulf state and a mem­ber of the Gulf Coop­er­a­tion Coun­cil (GCC) which also includes Qatar. Qaradawi’s state­ments seemed to vio­late what polit­i­cal observers describe as a “Sheiks’ agree­ment” not to crit­i­cize GCC mem­ber states.

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February 10, 2012 0

Hamas Leader Haniyah Joins Emerging Network of Islamists

Hamas leader Ismail Haniyah became an offi­cial mem­ber of the Inter­na­tional Union of Mus­lim Schol­ars (IUMS) on Feb­ru­ary 5, accel­er­at­ing Hamas’ ambi­tions to gain sup­port and pub­li­cally align itself with emerg­ing Islamist move­ment in the region. 

IUMS Mem­ber­ship Cer­tifi­cate to
“Pres­i­dent of the Pales­tin­ian Gov­ern­ment“
Ismail Haniyah   

The Qatar-based IUMS, which is chaired by rad­i­cal cleric Sheik Yusuf al-Qaradawi, describes itself as a “pan-Muslim body,” work­ing on “safe­guard­ing the Mus­lim iden­tity and bridg­ing the gap between the peo­ples and their rulers in the Islamic countries.”  

Haniyah mem­ber­ship was announced dur­ing a cer­e­mony held at the IUMS head­quar­ters in Doha. At the cer­e­mony, Haniyah received a cer­tifi­cate describ­ing him as the “Pres­i­dent of the Pales­tin­ian gov­ern­ment” and con­firm­ing his mem­ber­ship in in the orga­ni­za­tion. Other Islamist lead­ers in the Arab world, who adhere to the Islamist ide­ol­ogy of the Mus­lim Broth­er­hood, joined the IUMS as well.

Qaradawi’s sup­port for Hamas is well estab­lished. In 2009, he report­edly allo­cated $21 mil­lion to Hamas to buy apart­ments and plots of land in Jerusalem to “build char­i­ta­ble insti­tu­tions to broaden its base in the city,” accord­ing to the Israel Secu­rity Agency Shin Bet. Qaradawi, who has demon­strated con­sis­tent sup­port of ter­ror­ist groups that seek to under­mine a peace­ful res­o­lu­tion of the Palestinian-Israeli con­flict, pre­vi­ously trans­ferred tens of mil­lions of dol­lars to Hamas directly through the Saudi-based Union of Good, an umbrella orga­ni­za­tion of over 50 char­i­ties worldwide.

Dur­ing a ses­sion of an IUMS con­fer­ence in Cairo on Feb­ru­ary 1, Dr. Salah Sul­tan described the recent civil unrest and church bomb­ings in Egypt as the “acts of Jews.”

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