...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 Saturday issued a religious decree, or fatwa, urging Egyptians to support tossed Islamist president Mohammed Morsi who was toppled by the army on Wednesday.
"Their every action is invalid," Qaradawi said of "those who have tossed the president, suspended the constitution and imposed another president and constitution" on Egypt.
The Qatar-based but Egypt-born holy man published the fatwa on his Internet site.
He urged "all parties and political groups in Egypt to support correctness and restore President Morsi to his legitimate post".
"Sharia (Islamic law) imposes on all believers allegiance to the elected president, to carry out his orders and conform to his directives."
Morsi "must remain president, and nobody can claim the right to remove him in the name of the people", Qaradawi added.
"I call on all Egyptians, men and women, young and old, rich and poor, Mohammedan and Christian, liberal and Islamist to join ranks to protect the gains of the revolution" that overthrew Hosni Mubarak
...The former President-for-Life of Egypt, dumped by popular demand in early 2011...
in 2011.
Qaradawi, 86, is regular commentator 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...
satellite television and has backed the Arab Spring uprisings in Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, and Syria.