Yusuf Al Qaradawi

IslamPreacherPropagandistSunni IslamPolitical IslamMuslim Brotherhood

Feb 2

EMAN website-03.jpg — **DOB:** 9 September 1926
**Died:** 26 September 2022
**Nationality:** Egyptian
**Location:** Doha, Qatar
**Ideology/Affiliation:** Muslim Brotherhood/Sunni Political Islam
**Type of Leader:** Preacher/Propagandist/Influencer

Biography

Al Qaradawi, who passed away on 26 September 2022, is an Egyptian Islamic theologian based in Doha, Qatar, and chairman of the International Union of Muslim Scholars. He is best known for his programme Al-Sharīʿa wa al-Ḥayāh, broadcast on Al Jazeera, which has an estimated audience of 40–60 million worldwide. Al-Qaradawi has long had a prominent role within the intellectual leadership of the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood, although he has repeatedly stated that he is no longer a member and twice (in 1976 and 2004) turned down offers for an official role in the organization.

He is the unofficial ideological leader within the Brotherhood and is currently listed as a terrorist by Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, Egypt and the United Arab Emirates, and is currently banned from entering the United States, the United Kingdom, France and Tunisia. France and the UK prevented his entry in 2012 citing his calls for carrying out suicice bomb attacks as the reason behind his ban to enter either country. In 2019, Google banned an app featuring an introduction by Al Qaradawi from its online store. The Euro Fatwa App, developed by the European Council for Fatwa and Research (ECFR), offers users a simple and concise guide “to enable the European Muslims to adhere to the regulations and manners of Islam and to fulfill their duties as Muslim citizens”, with Al Qaradawi’s introduction making references targeting Jews while discussing fatwas he made in the past.

Al Qaradawi is a co-founder of the widely read website islamonline.net - a medium where many of his fatwas are published. This website, with its reach, serves to spread his articles and fatwas amongst a wide range of audiences. He has also published over 100 books, with many featured as part of the Muslim Brotherhood’s educational curriculum.

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Evidence of Hate Speech/Incitement:

August 2016: Al Qaradawi stated that Shia Muslims are ‘heretics’, and vilified the Shia sect as attempting to invade Sunni communities across the Muslim world. Despite his sectarianism against Shia Muslims, Qaradawi previously stated -in 2006 - that it is a duty for all Muslims to support Hezbollah - a Shia militant organisation considered to be a terrorist group by many countries.

May 2013: Al Qaradawi called on all Muslims to head to Syria to fight in jihad against the regime, and due to his wide reach, many individuals were said to have travelled on his fatwa and other radical fatwas and help stoke the Syrian crisis further

May 2013: Al Qaradawi has also made no attempt to disguise his fatwas in unequivocally sectarian terms, with calls to fight the Syrian regime in being made through a sectarian lens. To this point, he stated “Alawis don’t pray and they don’t fast, and even if they did pray they don’t have mosques to do it in.” He also referred to Syrian President Bashar Al Assad as “more infidel than Christians and Jews”

January 2009: Al Qaradawi stated that Allah (God) imposed Hitler on the Jews to punish them, and that “next time, it will be at the hand of the believers”, with the last sentence in reference to Muslims.

June 2006: Al Qaradawi stated that gay people should be punished just like fornicators. Al Qardawi was said to have stated “What is fornication? It is a sexual perversion. A perversion cannot possibly be innate.”

August 2005: Al Qaradawi sanctioned suicide bombings as a justified tactic to be used in war in Iraq. Qaradawi stated that it is a duty for Muslims to become suicide bombers in Iraq.

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