Latest Muslim Brotherhood 'Godfather' Qaradawi Sermon Further Antagonizes Qatar’s Gulf Neighbors...how will they react?(GMBR).
Media in the UAE is reporting that the latest sermon by Global Muslim Brotherhood leader Youssef Qaradawi has furthered threatened relations between Qatar and its Gulf neighbors. According to a report in The National:
February 22, 2014 The fiery sermon last Friday by Qatar-based Egyptian cleric Yousuf Al Qaradawi, in which he repeated attacks on Saudi Arabia and the UAE, threatens to further sour relations between Qatar and its neighbours, wrote Abdel Bari Atwan, editor-in-chief of the news website Rai Al Youm.
Many thought that Saudi Arabia’s threats to close its border and airspace and even freeze its relations with Qatar would prompt Doha to ‘silence’ Al Qaradawi and prevent him from giving sermons.
The cleric was also behind the crisis with the UAE which, three weeks ago, he accused of being against Islamic rule. The Saudi threats appeared in a London-based newspaper with close connections to Saudi Arabia and the UAE.
The cleric was also behind the crisis with the UAE which, three weeks ago, he accused of being against Islamic rule. The Saudi threats appeared in a London-based newspaper with close connections to Saudi Arabia and the UAE.
As the last fiery sermon showed, these threats have failed to stop Al Qaradawi from attacking Saudi Arabia, the UAE and the rule of Field Marshal Abdel Fattah El Sisi in Egypt. Sheikh Al Qaradawi would not make his blistering attacks again without consent from Qatari authorities, according to the writer.
The UAE had summoned the Qatari ambassador in Abu Dhabi to protest against the previous remarks made by Al Qaradawi that it deemed insulting to the UAE. The Sheikh’s latest diatribe is likely to further anger many. ‘Were you angry at me because of two lines I said about you. What if I gave an entire sermon just on your scandals and injustices,’ Al Qaradawi said in his sermon in Doha last Friday.
That most recent sermon was broadcast on a state television and smashed the reconciliation deal and the pledges made by Qatar’s Emir, Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, to King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia with Kuwait in attendance, during a tripartite meeting in Riyadh in December last year.
The Qatari Emir vowed to stop backing the Muslim Brotherhood in the Gulf and Egypt, stop Al Jazeera’s campaigns against the Egyptian authorities and adhere to the line of the GGC States.
The first is withdrawing their ambassadors to Doha and expelling Qatar’s ambassadors from Riyadh and Abu Dhabi, and possibly also from Manama and Kuwait.
Secondly, closing the borders and airspaces with Qatar. This action amounts to a siege because Saudi Arabia is the Qatar’s only land gateway to the world.
Thirdly, freezing Qatar’s membership in the Arab League and then the Gulf Cooperation Council.
Egypt’s authorities are particularly agitated by Qatar’s policies and that may play a pivotal factor in freezing Qatar’s membership of the Arab League.
The sermons of Al Qaradawi have added oil to an already blazing fire and surprises should be expected in the coming weeks, the writer concluded.Hmmmm........Read the rest here.
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