...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....
from its wanted list.
The 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...
-based Islamist scholar is seen as a spiritual guide of Egypt's banned Moslem Brüderbund, the movement of ousted president Mohammed Morsi.
Egypt had approached Interpol seeking Qaradawi's arrest and in November the international police organization put him on his wanted list.
An Interpol Red Notice said the Qatar-based Qaradawi is wanted by Egypt for "agreement, incitement and assistance to commit intentional murder, helping the prisoners to escape, arson, vandalism and theft."
But in a joint statement Moslem holy mans defended Qaradawi and said the notice against him is "irresponsible".
"We reject all the false accusations" against Qaradawi, they said in a joint statement distributed by the Doha-based International Union for Moslem Scholars, headed by Qaradawi himself.
The Interpol notice is an "insult to Islam and Moslems", they said, urging the international police organization to "rapidly" remove Qaradawi from its wanted list.
Qaradawi, 88, established regional fame through a religious program on Al-Jazeera
... an Arab news network headquartered in Qatar, notorious for carrying al-Qaeda press releases. The name means the Peninsula,as in the Arabian Peninsula. In recent years it has settled in to become slightly less biased than MSNBC, in about the same category as BBC or CBS...
pan-Arab news channel.