[Al Ahram] Egypt's prosecutor-general referred on Saturday 35 Moslem Brüderbund supporters to the military prosecution service, including prominent Islamist preacher Youssef El-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....
, on charges of murdering a police officer.
"The investigations revealed that the leaders of the international organization of the Moslem Brüderbund, in coordination with some radical left-wing and religious movements, were involved in the murder of police officer Wael Tahoon, and in attacking public and private facilities," read a statement issued by the prosecution general.
The prosecution added that 24 out of 35 defendants were in jug and had confessed their guilt. El-Qaradawi, a spiritual leader of Egypt's Moslem Brüderbund, is based in 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...
and was not apprehended.
In December 2014 Interpol issued an arrest warrant for El-Qaradawi, who is the chief of the International Union of Moslem Scholars, on the grounds that he is wanted by Egypt's authorities for inciting murder.
Under a law issued by President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi in 2014, crimes committed against the state's public and "vital" facilities are referred to the military judiciary.
The law, criticised by human rights
One man's rights are another man's existential threat.
organizations for expanding the jurisdiction of military tribunals on civilians, was passed shortly after the death of at least 33 security personnel in holy warrior attacks in Sinai on 24 October.
Article 204 of Egypt's new constitution already allows authorities to refer civilians to military trials.
Earlier this week, 439 defendants were referred to the military judiciary over violence which followed the deadly dispersal of two camps supporting Egypt's ousted Islamist president Mohammed Morsi, who hails from the Brotherhood, in August 2013.