Houston Chronicle pushes Muslim Brotherhood-linked groups as “moderate”

ISNA, for its part, has admitted ties to the Muslim Brotherhood and Hamas.

The Muslim Brotherhood “must understand that their work in America is a kind of grand Jihad in eliminating and destroying the Western civilization from within and ‘sabotaging’ its miserable house by their hands and the hands of the believers so that it is eliminated and Allah’s religion is made victorious over all other religions.” –

Mohamed Akram, “An Explanatory Memorandum on the General Strategic Goal for the Group in North America,” May 22, 1991, Government Exhibit 003-0085, U.S. vs. HLF, et al. P. 7 (21).  JW

From the Global Muslim Brotherhood Daily Report

RECOMMENDED VIEWING: Qaradawi Video Compilation

MEMRI has produced two video compilations of some of the extremist statements of Youssef Qaradawi. The first collections contains Qaradawi’s statements about Europe and the US as well as about Israel and Jews. Some of these statements have been discussed in previous posts including Qaradawi stating:

• Islam will conquer Europe through peaceful means.

• Hitler was divine punishment for the misdeeds of the Jews and that the Holocaust was exaggerated.

• He desires to end his life in the service of Jihad by visiting Israel and throwing a bomb, becoming a “martyr” in the process

• Calling for the death of all Jews.

• Calling for the collapse of the US if it doesn’t end its “unjust ways.”

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zWppx61BJUw[/youtube]

The second collections contains various statements by Qaradawi on social issues such asdiscussing the killing of homosexuals and stating that beating is “suitable” for some wives.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FuAlVMZcsUU[/youtube]

Youssef Qaradawi is often referred to here as the most important leader of the global Muslim Brotherhood, an acknowledgement of his role as the de facto spiritual leader of the movement.

In 2004, Qaradawi turned down the offer to lead the Egyptian Brotherhood after the death of the Supreme Guide. Based in Qatar, Sheikh Qaradawi has reportedly amassed substantial wealth through his role as Shari’ah adviser to many important Islamic banks and funds. He is also considered to be the “spiritual guide” for Hamas and his fatwas in support of suicide bombings against Israeli citizens were instrumental in the development of the phenomenon. Qaradawi has written that all Jews and all Muslims will fight each other in a final battle in which Muslims will emerge victorious.

Recent posts have discussed the awarding of a Fulbright award to Qaradawi’s daughter as well as the role of Qaradawi in Qatar’s Education City which was recently visited by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. The MEMRI report on Education City noted that the advisory committee of the Faculty of Islamic Studies at Education City is chaired by Qaradawi and also includes Dr. Sherman Jackson, a US professor with many ties to the US Muslim Brotherhood including serving as a former member of the Fiqh Council of North America, a part of the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA). A previous post also discussed the likelihood that Qaradawi is a board member of the International Institute of Islamic Thought (IIIT), an important part of the US Muslim Brotherhood

Other links:

• ANALYSIS: The Global Muslim Brotherhood And Al-Aqsa Mosque Incitement
• BREAKING NEWS: Middle East News Portal Says Qaradawi Intervening In IslamOnline Strike

BREAKING NEWS:

Daughter of Youssef Qaradawi Nominated For Fulbright Award

Isn’t that how Obambi got into Harvard?

Gulf media is reporting that the daughter of global Muslim Brotherhood leader & FGM advocate Youssef Qaradawi has been nominated for a scholarship under the new Fulbright Science and Technology Award. According to a report in the Gulf Times: Muslim Brotherhood Report

BREAKING NEWS: Tariq Ramadan To be Keynote Speaker At CAIR-Chicago Banquet

In what now appears to be a developing U.S. tour , the Chicago chapter of the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR) has annouced that global Muslim Brotherhood leader Tariq Ramadan will be the keynote speaker at its 6th Annual Banquet on April 10, 2010. According to the CAIR announcement:

Chicago is pleased to announce that Professor Tariq Ramadan will be the keynote speaker at its 6th Annual Banquet… Continue reading

Pamela has him all sussed out:

No pretense anymore. No pretending. Their man is in the White House and they are going for the throat. Unindicted co-conspirator, Muslim Brotherhood front CAIR (in Obama’s Chicago) is hosting the first US appearance of previously banned jihadist Tariq Ramadan. Evil is circling the wagons.

In sanctioning Ramadan, the Obama administration presents itself as a threat to national security…Atlas Shrugs

Thanks  but no thanks, Yusuf!  We don’t want any of it. Because what you call freedom is what we call slavery….

Thanks to Translating Jihad

Yusuf al-Qaradawi and Muslim Tolerance

Qaradawi gives a fair account of what lsam has in store for us:

This is from a BBC interview with Shaykh al-Qaradawi, which was published on BBC Arabic on 6 Feb, entitled “Al-Qaradawi to BBC: Freedom Is Produced by the Application of the Shari’ah.” I saw bits and pieces of this translated to English on other news sites, but I never found the entire article, so here you go. I found the last two paragraphs to be the most interesting, where on one hand he compares the lack of freedom of religion in the Hijaz to the fact that the Vatican doesn’t allow proselyting in its territory, but then on the other hand he goes on to say that there should be no proselyting of other faiths at all among Muslims. So why even waste the time with the Vatican comparison, if there’s no freedom of religion in Islam at all?

The president of the International Union of Muslim Scholars Yousuf al-Qaradawi said that his opposition to building the wall (i.e. the wall between Egypt and Gaza) is rooted in his application of the principle of fiqh which prohibits the doing of something halal (permissible) when its end result is haram (forbidden).

Al-Qaradawi, in a meeting held with his colleague Hassan Mouawad aired on the BBC television program “At the Heart Of”, added that the issue of building the steel wall between Egypt and the Gaza Strip is not just connected to Egypt’s national security. He explained that Egypt also has an Arab and Islamic responsibility to defend the Gaza Strip, which it governed for a time, confirming that he does not want Egypt to withdraw from its Arab, national, and Islamic role.

Concerning the controversy which was caused after he called for the stoning of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, al-Qaradawi said that he was responding to a question about his opinion on “Abbas’s invitation to the Israelis to raid Gaza,” which occurred several months ago and was brought up recently by Abbas.

He clarified that his response was predicated on Abbas’s remarks, and that it was not simply to rule that Abbas should be executed, but that he specifically should be stoned. For he is the president of all of Palestine, and “the president that calls for his own people to be attacked is not worthy to live, but must be stoned by his people.”

Al-Qaradawi also responded to a question about the distribution of posters in the West Bank which showed him shaking hands with rabbis, saying that he does not deny the fact, for “the Jews are People of the Book, and we recognize them together with the Nazarenes (i.e. Christians).”

He added that he welcomes the Jews that stand against Zionism, but he is against dealing with Jewish rabbis if they are Israelis, for he rejects all Jews that accept Israel. On that vein, he refused to attended a Jewish-Christian-Islamic dialogue forum because he does not accept sitting on the same stage with Jews that recognize Israel.

“A Necessary Act”

Regarding suicide operations which some Palestinian factions have carried out, al-Qaradawi said that he sees them as a necessary act. He added that this is necessary because the Palestinians are unable to obtain effective weapons. He indicated that those that carried out these operations were trying to target Israeli soldiers and not civilians. However, concerning the suicide operations carried out in public markets, his response was that “they (i.e. the suicide bombers) are not flawless, and they may make mistakes.”

The president of the International Union of Muslim Scholars said that he has evidence of what he describes as Shi’a raids. Al-Qaradawi explained that the Shi’a have not complied with what they agreed to in meetings between “leaders of the two sects” (i.e. Sunni and Shi’a) to not attempt to propagate their doctrine in a land that is purely of the other sect (i.e. Shi’a and Sunni leaders apparently agreed to not preach their doctrines in countries controlled by the other sect).

However, he confirmed that he sees no contradiction in this position and his invitation to get together with them, “for we call for a coming together with other religions, both those of the Book and those not of the Book, so therefore how can we not extend this same invitation to Muslims in whom we see some ‘innovation’ (i.e. Islamic term referring to apostasy).”

Regarding the contradiction between his call to support Hezbollah and his description of its general secretary Hassan Nasrallah as a Shi’a extremist, al-Qaradawi said that it was a response to “Nasrallah’s failure to respond to the attacks on al-Qaradawi from the Shi’ites,” when he accused them of not fulfilling their agreement in the reconciliation forums “Between the Two Sects.” However, he acknowledged that Nasrallah was not among those extremists.

On issues of freedom, al-Qaradawi said that he does not see a contradiction between his faith in freedom of belief and religion, and his rejection of building (non-Muslim) churches in the Hijaz, “For the Hijaz is Islamic private property, and this property cannot be violated, just as mosques cannot be built in the Vatican.”

He also confirmed that there is no contradication, in his opinion, between his faith that “freedom is produced by the application of the shari’ah,” and his rejection of any proselytizing of other religions among Muslims, “and this should be the position of every Muslim.” However, he does not oppose the conversion of a Muslim to another religion, but only after his being called to repent.

“Reformist” Sheikh who is just fine with suicide bombings in Israel condemns them in Russia

Jihad Watch/Great comments!

Not that there ever was one…

Following are excerpts from a sermon by leading Sunni cleric Sheikh Yousef Al-Qaradhawi, who heads the International Unionfor Muslim Scholars (IUMS). The sermon aired on Qatar TV on October 30, 2009.

To view this clip on MEMRI TV, visit http://www.memritv.org/clip/en/2267.htm.

To view the MEMRI TV page on Sheikh Al-Qaradhawi, visit http://www.memritv.org/subject/en/589.htm .

“No Pope Has Ever Apologized to the Muslims for What Happened To Them in the Crusader Wars”

Sheikh Yousef Al-Qaradhawi: “We halted this Islamic-Christian dialogue. We were preparing for the third summit, when the new pope came into office and delivered his famous speech, affronting Islam, the Prophet of Islam, the Koran, the Islamic nation, and the history of Islam, without justification and without any preliminaries. He alleged that the Prophet Muhammad did not make any contribution other than spreading Islam by the sword. This is an utter lie.  (Qaradawi doesn’t tell us why  facts are lies when it suits him/ed)

Interesting link:

• Some Jews and Muslims take Interfaith Work to a new level

“Therefore, we, in the International Union of Muslim Scholars, demanded, on more than one occasion, that he apologize, in one way or another, or else we would halt the dialogue with the Vatican. Indeed, I’m sad to say, the man did not utter a word of apology. Even if some Muslims tried to say it’s enough if he says I-don’t-know-what… He did not say anything straightforwardly.

“The Vatican apologized to the Jews, who said that Christ was a liar, that he was the son of a prostitute, that his mother was not a virgin, and that he was fathered by Joseph the carpenter. They absolved the Jews, who organized and took part in his killing. They exonerated the Jews of the spilling of the blood of Christ.

“No pope has ever apologized to the Muslims for what happened to them in the Crusader wars, which were hostile wars. They came to our countries from Europe, and did what they did in the nine Crusades. Therefore, we have halted our dialogue with these people, with the Vatican.” (The pope has no business apologizing to muslims. The crusades were defensive wars, and  were unable to re -conquer the former Christian and Jewish countries around the Mediterranean which the muslim armies had conquered/ed)

“We Recognize Christianity… But These [Christians] Do Not Recognize Us”

“Let me tell you, with regard to the Christians, in general, there is a problem, which I raised at the third conference, held in Doha, as well as at the interfaith dialogue conference in Mecca, convened by the Saudi monarch a year and a half ago.

“I said: Brothers, the problem is that [although] we recognize Christianity, and we recognize Christ, his holy book, and his religion… A Muslim’s faith is not complete unless he believes in this, because it is incumbent upon him to believe in every book that was sent down and in every prophet who was sent [by God]. ‘And what was given to Moses and Jesus and other prophets from their Lord – we make no distinction between any of them, and to Him do we submit.’

“But these [Christians] do not recognize us. [They say]: “Muhammad was a liar. The Koran is a fabrication. They created the Koran and attributed it to Allah.’

“These things have practical implications. We were at a conference in Cairo, called The Christians of the Middle East. I wanted to say, in the closing statement: ‘The people of the divine religions agreed…’ But [the Christians] said: ‘Stop!’ I asked: ‘What is it?’ They said: ‘We do not recognize Islam as a divine religion. It is not a divine religion.’ They agreed to say all kinds of things, but not that Islam is a divine religion. I wanted to include another sentence, about ‘Godly values.’ They said: ‘No, we do not recognize Islamic values as being Godly. They are human values, brought by a guy who claimed to be a prophet.’ I exploded and said: ‘So what are we convening for? If you do not recognize our religion and our values as divine, what are we meeting for? Go away.’ And I left the meeting.”

I Cannot Find “One Practical Thing That These Conferences Have Achieved for the Benefit of the Islamic Nation”

“Brother, there is a problem with our dialogue with these people, who look at our Prophet, our Koran, and our nation this way, while we flock to them, and do not achieve a thing. Give me one practical thing that these conferences have achieved for the benefit of the Islamic nation. I cannot find a thing.”

Al-Qaradawi Center for “Moderation”

Al Qaradawi, the “reformer”, the voice of “moderation”: will he reform this?

In an amazing bit of irony, a Qatari government fund is creating the Al-Qaradawi Centre for Islamic Moderation and Renewal, named after leading Sunni scholar and self-proclaimed “Mufti of martyrdom operations” Yousef Al-Qaradawi. claims that the center will direct its “moderation” towards “politicians and economists,” train imams, and show the “huge difference between terrorism and jihad.”

Yet all of these stated goals directly contradict Al-Qaradawi’s statements in support of terrorism, his desire to overthrow capitalism, and his position as a leading member of the Muslim Brotherhood.

Director Hasan Khalifa is a professor of Comparative Religion at Cairo University and a great admirer of Al-Qaradawi. He stated that the organization “would direct its works at politicians and economists to help them promote moderation in their respective areas.”

“Reformer” Qaradawi

In the realm of politics, there are numerous examples of Al-Qaradawi’s “moderation.” He has openly permitted the killing of American troops in Iraq and praised the “heroic deeds” from “Hamas, Jihad, Al-Aqsa Brigades, and others.” Reports by prominent London newspaper Al-Sharq Al-Awsat, repeated Israeli claims that Al-Qaradawi was funding “the heart of Hamas,” the Al-Islam Charity, through his Welfare Coalition. He has also pledged to fight the United States if it attacked Iran, stating:

“When America threatened it [Iran], I said I am against America. Iran has the right to possess peaceful nuclear power, and if America fights it, we would stand up against it [America].”

To top it all off, Al-Qaradawi has proclaimed himself the “Mufti of martyrdom operations” and stated:

“I have been affiliated with a group considered by Zionists as their first enemy; it is the Muslim Brotherhood that has provided and still provides martyrs for the cause of Palestine.

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More coming every day…

Crazy Sheikh Goes Ballistic on Obama for Mentioning Koran and Torah Together

Vicious Babushka

• The result of centuries of first cousin marriages on display:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ryw26pzABzY[/youtube]

• Talking Jesus: Obama Outdoes Bush

By: Dr. Paul Kengor…and so did Bill Clinton; where’s the media outrage?….more

• Obama and the “Two State Solution”

By: Louis Rene Beres Repeating past mistakes. ….more

• U.S. Reform Rabbis tell Israel that Obama Knows Best

Qaradawi needs a mufti muzzler!                         

* Qaradawi:  “The last punishment was carried out by Hitler, this was divine punishment for them. Allah willing, the next time will be at the hand of the believers.” Sheikh al-Qaradawi, 82, has previously justified suicide bombing targeting Israeli women and children, and supported the stoning of homosexuals.

 He was refused a visa to enter Britain last year 

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For the comical Inayat Bunglawussi of the “Islamophobia Watch” site anything and anyone critical of Islam or Islamic headbangers is heresy, ‘anti-Muslim racism’ or plain old ‘Islamophobia’.

Al Jizz, the Qatar owned Al Qaeda megaphone, has been in the news lately for giving hatepreacher Sheik Yusuf al Qaradawi ample airtime to let off steam, which doesn’t necessarily advance the spread of Islam among irritated infidels. Anything that could make it harder for the Religion of Peace to establish itself behind enemy lines, in infidel lands, the bilad al kuffar, is deplorable and all barriers must be dismantled. Bungla sees this as his own personal jihad, therefore, everything exposing the Islamic agenda is evil and amounts to a ‘witch hunt’- happy hunting Bungla!

Another MEMRI-inspired witch-hunt of Qaradawi