Muslim Brotherhood Egypt & UK say Washington will not make decision against the group, just 'media remarks'.

Muslim Brotherhood Egypt & UK say Washington will not make decision against the group, just 'media remarks'. (EI).

Ibrahim Mounir, secretary of the Muslim Brotherhood international group, said no official steps or decisions have been taken by the US administration against the group, considering the US resolution to declare the group 'terrorist' only remarks made in media.

Speaking to Al-Masry Al-Youm, Mounir said a decision such as this one would be taken by the State and Defense departments. He indicated Arab demands on the US to take such a decision.

According to Mounir, the group is committed to peaceful ways and will not resort to violence, regardlessof the decision taken against it. Also, it will not engage in reconciliation negotiations with the current regime.

In related news, Mohamed Sudan, a leader with the group based in London, revealed communication between the group and US politicians, asking to clarify the truth about the group since it was established.

In remarks published on the MB official website, Mohamed Sudan said that US officials are saying the US administration will not issue such a decision and considering this as just 'media remarks'.

He added that the disbanded Freedom and Justice Party’s foreign relations committee is considering all options in case Washington taggs the group as terrorist. However, it would declare these steps after such decision is taken. He noted that violence is not included in its options.
Edited translation from Al-Masry Al-Youm

White House mulling Terrorist Designation for Muslim Brotherhood

White House mulling Terrorist Designation for Muslim Brotherhood. (NYTimes).

President Trump’s advisers are debating an order intended to designate the Muslim Brotherhood as a foreign terrorist organization, targeting the oldest and perhaps most influential Islamist group in the Middle East.

But the Brotherhood calls for a society governed by Islamic law, and some of its former members and offshoots — most notably Hamas, the Palestinian group whose stated goal is the destruction of Israel — have been tied to attacks. Some advisers to Mr. Trump have viewed the Brotherhood for years as a radical faction secretly infiltrating the United States to promote Shariah law. They see the order as an opportunity to finally take action against it.

Officially designating the Brotherhood as a terrorist organization would roil American relations in the Middle East. The leaders of some American allies — like Egypt, where the military forced the Brotherhood from power in 2013, and the United Arab Emirates — have pressed Mr. Trump to do so to quash internal enemies, but the group remains a pillar of society in parts of the region.

The proposal to declare it a terrorist organization has been paired with a plan to similarly designate Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, according to current and former officials briefed on the deliberations. Leaders of the corps and its Quds Force unit have already been put on a government terrorist list, but Republicans have advocated adding the corps itself to send a message to Iran.

“The goals of the Muslim Brotherhood,” Mr. Gaffney said in a recent interview with The New York Times, are “exactly the same as the Islamic State, exactly the same as the Taliban, exactly the same as, you know, Al Qaeda, Boko Haram, Al Nusra Front, on and on, Al Shabab. It’s about Islamic supremacism. It’s about achieving the end state that is their due.”

It is unclear what form a presidential order would take. Presumably, Mr. Trump could direct Secretary of State Rex W. Tillerson to review whether the Brotherhood should be designated. At his confirmation hearing, Mr. Tillerson grouped the Brotherhood and Al Qaeda together as “agents of radical Islam.”

In recent years, offshoots have joined the political system, including Ennahda, a party that belongs to the governing coalition in Tunisia and has eschewed extremism. Even in Turkey, a NATO ally, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s Justice and Development Party has long supported the Muslim Brotherhood. Read the full story here.

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Gulf Officials Blast MB 'Godfather' Al-Qaradawi: He Is The 'Mufti Of Suicide Attacks,'

Gulf Officials Blast MB 'Godfather' Al-Qaradawi: He Is The 'Mufti Of Suicide Attacks,' (Memri).

In recent weeks, officials in the Gulf have lashed out at Sheikh Yousuf Al-Qaradawi, head of the International Union of Muslim Scholars (IUMS) and a prominent spiritual leader of the Muslim Brotherhood (MB), for fatwas he issued in the past permitting suicide operations. The accusations came on the wake of the July 4, 2016 suicide bombings in Saudi Arabia.

The first to voice the accusations was UAE Foreign Minister 'Abdallah bin Zayed, who, in two tweets, blamed Al-Qaradawi for suicide attacks and called to hold him to account for his role in encouraging them. Responding to this on his own Twitter account, Al-Qaradawi called bin Zayed a "devil" but refrained from addressing the accusations themselves. It should be noted that after Twitter twice removed Al-Qaradawi's response he reposted it on his Facebook page. [1]

Bin Zayed's comments were echoed by two other Gulf officials: Bahraini Foreign Minister Khalid bin Ahmed Aal Khalifa and UAE State Minister for Foreign Affairs Dr. Mohammed Gargash. Several articles in the Gulf press joined the attack on Al-Qaradawi, calling him "the Mufti of Suicide" and "the Sheikh of Fitna," and some Egyptian papers known from their anti-MB position also published articles against him.

The accusations against Al-Qaradawi sparked a heated debate on social media. As evidence for their validity, users pointed to a video from 2012 in which the sheikh justified suicide operations in Syria. Asked whether it was permissible to carry out a martyrdom operation against regime loyalists even if civilians may be harmed as a result, Al-Qaradawi said that this was allowed as long as the group (that carried out the attack) deemed it necessary.[2]

This is not the first time that various Arab media, especially those opposing the MB, have blamed this movement – and Al-Qaradawi as one of its prominent ideologues – for ISIS's violence in the Arab world.[3] In fact, Egypt and some other Arab countries have designated the MB a terrorist organization. 

However, this is the first time official Gulf elements have fingered Al-Qaradawi as responsible for ISIS's terrorism and for suicide operations. This may stem from their desire to rebuff Western claims that the source of Sunni extremism is the Wahhabi stream, dominant in Saudi Arabia, and shift the blame to the MB, which is regarded by many in the West as a more moderate Islamic movement.

It should be noted that even prior to 2012 Al-Qaradawi sanctioned suicide operations, especially in Palestine. In 2001 he responded to a fatwa by then-Saudi mufti 'Abd Al-'Aziz bin 'Abdallah Aal Al-Sheikh that forbade suicide operations even against an army occupying Muslim land. Al-Qaradawi stated in reply to this fatwa that operations by Muslim suicide bombers were a legitimate form of resistance, "heroic acts of martyrdom and sacrifice," and one of the noblest kinds of jihad for the sake of Allah.

He clarified: "These operations are the furthest [thing] from suicide and the ones who carry them out are not suicides by any measure. A suicide is someone who kills himself for selfish reasons, while one who sacrifices himself [a fida'i] does this for the sake of his religion and ummah. [He] fights the enemies of Allah using a new weapon that God has placed in the hands of the oppressed as a means of resisting the tyranny of the strong and the haughty."[4] 

As stated, in 2012 Al-Qaradawi permitted suicide operations in Syria provided that "the group [carrying out the attack]" deems it necessary, without explaining exactly what this means. In 2015, after he was accused of sanctioning suicide operations in Egypt following the ouster of president Muhammad Mursi, Al-Qaradawi's office issued a statement meant to clarify his stance on this issue.

It said that, in his book Fiqh Al-Jihad from 2009 the sheikh had clearly stated that he permitted suicide operations only in Palestine and nowhere else. The statement clarified further that, now that the Palestinians had obtained sophisticated weapons, suicide operations were no longer valid even in Palestine.[5] 

However, Al-Qaradawi's fatwas sanctioning suicide operations are still interpreted in some Muslim circles as a blanket permission for attacks of this kind. It should also be stressed that these fatwas still appear on his website.

This report will review the recent accusations against Al-Qaradawi.

Gulf Officials: The MB, Headed By Al-Qaradawi, Are To Blame For Suicide Attacks

On July 4, 2016, several hours after the series of attacks in Saudi Arabia, UAE Foreign Minister 'Abdallah bin Zayed tweeted: "We should hold to account those who incited and permitted to kill people and [to perpetrate] the suicide attacks." In a later tweet he explicitly pointed the finger at Al-Qaradawi: "Do you remember that [the former Saudi mufti], the honorable sheikh ['Abd Al-'Aziz] bin Bazz, forbade suicide attacks? Do you remember that the MB's mufti, [Yousuf] Al-Qaradawi, permitted them?"[6]

Other gulf officials supported bin Zayed's position. UAE Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, Dr. Mohammed Gargash, tweeted: "Those who justified suicide attacks and issued fatwas [permitting them] are responsible for the current situation. Thousands of innocent people have died because of [their craving] for influence and power which is disguised as religion." He added: "These people must take responsibility for the chaos and violence that they helped to ignite... The MB's historical affinity for violence and bloodshed is documented and known..."[8]

Two days later, Bahraini Foreign Minister Khalid bin Ahmed Aal Khalifa likewise responded to Al-Qaradawi's reply and supported his UAE counterpart, tweeting: "The devils who were unchained are those who tried to destroy the heart of the [Muslim] ummah and its strongest fortress. Now they are blaming the righteous leaders for their own faults."

Articles In Gulf Press: Al-Qaradawi And His Ilk Prefer To Sacrifice Other People's Sons On The Altar Of Their Bloody Struggles; 'The Suicide Belts [Al-Qaradawi Permitted In His] Fatwas Have Come Back To Harm The Muslims Themselves' Read the full story here. 

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Muslim Brotherhood 'Godfather' Qaradawi Regrets Trying To Reconcile Sunnis & Shiites.

Muslim Brotherhood 'Godfather' Qaradawi Regrets Trying To Reconcile Sunnis & Shiites. HT: GlobalMuslimBrotherhoodReport.

Saudi media is reporting that Global Muslim Brotherhood leader Youssef Qaradawi has “expressed his regret again over the years he spent trying to reconcile Sunnis and Shiites.” According to the Asharq Al-Awsat report:

The Egyptian preacher Yusuf Al-Qaradawi who is also the President of the International Union of Muslim Scholars (IUMS) expressed his regret again over the years he spent trying to reconcile Sunnis and Shiites. 

He launched a sharp attack on Shitte religious authorities and praised Saudi Arabian scholars who realised the true nature of Lebanese Hezbollah’s secretary general early on. He added that the Saudi Arabian scholars were more mature than him with regards to their stance on Shiites. 

Al-Qaradawi also commented on the deep crisis faced by the Muslim Brotherhood and called on its leaders to hold comprehensive elections at home and abroad to overcome their current crisis. 

Al-Qaradawi reposted a clip of himself filmed during a conference to help the Syrian people which was held in Qatar. The clip showed Al-Qaradawi addressing a group of Sunni scholars and religious leaders whilst saying that the idea of rapprochement between sects has worked in favour of the Shiites and that the Sunnis have not benefited from it at all. 

He added that “after this long period of time I do not see the benefit of rapprochement between Sunnis and Shiites. The Sunnis lose and the Shiites gain.” 

In what appears as the most important acknowledgement of the depth of the split in the Muslim Brotherhood’s ranks in Egypt, Al-Qaradawi called the group to hold comprehensive elections in Egypt and abroad to overcome the current crisis facing the Muslim Brotherhood. 

He also called on the conflicting parties to stop bickering until elections are held. However, former members of the group played down the importance of Al-Qaradawi’s initiative and told Asharq Al-Awsat that the group’s crisis has exceeded its regulatory limits and argued that the announcement of the initiative itself is a sign of failure. Hmmm.......Someone has a hard time digesting Iran's success.

Read the full story and more on the Muslim Brotherhood here.

Egyptian paper claims Muslim brotherhood 'godfather' Qaradawi and Youssef Nada,struggle to mend internal rift.

Egyptian paper claims Muslim brotherhood 'godfather' Qaradawi and Youssef Nada,struggle to mend internal rift. (EI).

Senior figures from the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood are struggling to preempt a possible breakdown of the 87-year old organization caused by a leadership struggle between its elders and youth.

Brotherhood sources have said that Youssef Nada, the organization’s former foreign affairs commissioner, and Youssef al-Qaradawi, a prominent group supporter and a Qatar-based preacher, are in talks with top leaders to mend the growing rift which has seen the younger cadres planning elections for the organization’s top board.

According to the sources, the pair is in contact with acting Supreme Guide Mahmoud Ezzat and the so-called, youth-led “Administrative Commission”, the latter which has called for allowing younger figures to lead the organization.

Ezzat, sources said, has rejected a dialogue with the youth front until it stops making statements in the organization’s name. He also demanded that the youth “hand over the media outlets it dominated over the past period”, referring to the Brotherhood website the younger leaders took over forcing the older guard to build their own website. 

Meanwhile, Essam Tallima, a Brotherhood member, said the group is in need of a new by-law and Guidance Bureau. Hmmm........The MB slowly going ISIS style?

Related: What are the leaders of the Muslim Brotherhood fighting for?

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Video - U.S. VP Biden presents former Yusuf al-Qaradawi’s deputy Sheik Abdallah bin Beyah At the UNGA.

Flashback 2013:

Sheikh Abdullah bin Bayyah, who serves as vice-president of an organization that supports the terrorist group Hamas and whose president sanctioned the killing of American soldiers in Iraq, has met with senior Obama administration officials at the White House.

Bin Bayyah is the principal deputy to Sheikh Yusuf al-Qaradawi, the Muslim Brotherhood’s chief Sharia jurist and the driving force of the International Union of Muslim Scholars (IUMS). In addition to being behind the 2004 fatwa calling for the killing of American troops and other personnel serving in Iraq, Qaradawi also promotes suicide bombing against Israel.

The Investigative Project on Terrorism reports that in 2011, Bayyah made a statement on his Arabic-language website where he criticized the West for placing Palestinian terrorist groups such as Hamas, Palestinian Islamic Jihad and others in the same category as al-Qaeda.

In a posting on his website Shaykh Abdullah bin Bayyah revealed that he met at the White House on June 13 with Gayle Smith, senior director of the National Security Council, and Rashad Hussain, President Obama’s special envoy to the Organization of the Islamic Conference, among other officials.

The posting originally stated that the "national security adviser" was at the meeting, without naming him directly, though that part of the post was removed shortly thereafter when it was revealed that National Security Adviser Tom Donilon was not in fact at the meeting.

Among the topics the posting says bin Bayyah addressed at the meeting was how to "lift the injustices from vulnerable peoples such as the Syrian people, the Palestinians and the Muslims in Myanmar" and for the U.S. to do more to aid the Syrian revolution.

According to bin Bayyah’s website’s account of the meeting, it was the White House who asked for an audience with him.

A senior Obama administration official confirmed that the meeting took place, but declined to confirm whether all the officials listed by bin Bayyah’s website, including the American "national security adviser," were in attendance.

The official claimed that the meeting was set up to learn about bin Bayyah’s efforts to "counter the al-Qaeda narrative."



In granting bin Bayyah a visa, White House officials ignored his radical statements as well as his close connection to Qaradawi.

IUMS's hostility toward Israel, and its support of terrorists, is well documented. Considering that this information is readily available on the internet, it would not have been too difficult for White House officials to uncover that both Bin Bayyah and the IUMS support Palestinian terrorism and Israel's destruction. Hmmmm.....It seems the love from the Obama 'Admin' is still strong for #Israel's enemies. Source. More on the Sheikh's past can be read here.......Amazing coincidence that the Sheikh resigned from Qaradawis MB Club once the Obama White house was inviting him.

Muslim Brotherhood 'Godfather' Qaradawi Referred To Military Court Over Murder Of Police Officer .

Muslim Brotherhood 'Godfather' Qaradawi Referred To Military Court Over Murder Of Police Officer. (CairoPost).

September 6, 2015 Egypt’s acting Attorney General Aly Omran referred Saturday 35 alleged Muslim Brotherhood members to the military prosecution for involvement in the murder of a senior police officer in April, Youm7 reported.

Out of 35 defendants, 24 are in custody while the other 11 including Islamist preacher Yusuf al-Qaradawi are fugitives.

They are accused of assassinating the chief investigation officer of the Matariya Police Station colonel Wael Tahoun and his driver in a drive-by shooting in April 2014.

They defendants are also charged with orchestrating and carrying out several bombings in Cairo following the dispersal of pro-Muslim Brotherhood sit-in at Rabaa al-Adaweya Square in August 2013.

Crimes committed against public facilities, military and police institutions are handled by the military judiciary, according to law issued by President Abdel-Fatah al-Sisi in November 2014 following an armed attack that killed at least 30 security personnel in Sinai.

Egypt has witnessed a significant rise in militancy since the military-backed ouster of Islamist President Mohamed Morsi in July 2013 following mass protests against his rule. According to the Interior Ministry, militant attacks have killed more than 500 security personnel since then.

Former Bosnian Grand Mufti Mustafa Ceric Shows True Colors; Calls Notorious Anti-Semite Salah Sultan “Pride Of Humanity”

Former Bosnian Grand Mufti Mustafa Ceric Shows True Colors; Calls Notorious Anti-Semite Salah Sultan “Pride Of Humanity” HT: GMBR.

In two recent Twitter postings, former Bosnian Grand Mufti Mustafa Ceric has revealed to the world that his frequent characterization as a moderate Islamic voice is not deserved. 

At the beginning of April, Dr. Ceric tweeted that the notorious anti-Semite and Muslim Brotherhood figure Salah Sultan is a “pride of humanity.” The tweet in question was as follows:

April 7, 2015 6:04 am” #EgyptianCourt is a shame for Egypt & Islam, a shame for humanity, dr Salih Sultan is pride of humanity

Dr. Sultan (aka Salah Sultan), who Dr. Ceric believes is a “pride of humanity”,  is in fact an individual deeply tied to the both the Egyptian and Global Muslim Brotherhood who was recently sentenced to death by an Egyptian court along with other senior Brotherhood leaders for inciting chaos and violence during the events following the deposition of former President Mohamed Morsi. 

Dr. Sultan was formerly resident in the US but left following media reports about his extremist statements which led the authorities there to suspend his application for American citizenship. 

Dr. Sultan has a long history of making extremist and antisemitic statements. 

In perhaps the most egregious example, during an April 2010 interview on a Hamas TV station he accused Jews of using Christian blood for Matzoh (substitute for bread used during the Jewish holiday of Passover) in an example of what is called “blood libel”, the accusations that Jews use human blood in religious rituals. 

Other of Dr. Sultan’s extremist statements include accusations that the US planned 911 as a pretext for terrorizing the world and asserting that Jews have entered Egypt in order to commit crimes including deliberately infecting Egyptian girls with AIDS.

Dr. Ceric’s lionization of such a virulent anti-Semite would appear to be at odds with his participation in Holocaust remembrance events but consistent with his long-time association with Global Muslim Brotherhood leader Youssef Qaradawi who has his own history of virulent anti-Semitism. 

Although he has made recent statements that would seem to put him at odds with Qaradawi and some of his religious rulings, Dr. Ceric remains a member of the European Council for Fatwa and Research (ECFR), headed by Qaradawi. 

As recently as November 2012, Dr. Ceric was part of a Gaza delegation sponsored by Qaradawi’s International Union of Muslim Scholars (IUMS) which has hate preachers of its own on its board including Safwat Hegazi and which also includes Salah Sultan.

It is not only on the subject of Jews where Dr. Ceric has revealed his sympathies. On May 28, another of his tweets suggested that Dr. Ceric had allied with Qaradawi by declaring that the Armenian genocide at the hands of the Turks to be “controversial” and resigning from the board of an organization that issued a statement commemorating the events:

May 28, 2015 8:41 AM – I am resigning Elijah Board & ask #RabbiAlone to erase my name on the list regarding controversial ArmenianGenocide

On May 25, the Elijah Board had issued a statement titled “Statement on the Occasion of the 100th Anniversary of the Armenian Genocide” that was said to have been signed by 65 world religious leaders. As the GMBDW reported in late April, Youssef Qaradawi had joined the US Muslim Brotherhood in declaring his support for Turkey on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the genocide. The GMBDW judges that support for the Turkish position on the Armenian genocide by these Global Muslim Brotherhood leaders was a recognition of the significant role that Turkey has played in recent years a a Brotherhood patron.

However, as we have long reported Dr. Ceric is known to have had extensive Islamist ties since the time of the 1992-1995 Bosnian War. Dr. Ceric headed the Zagreb office of the Third World Relief Agency that sent funds and financed arms shipments to the Bosnian mujahedeen and which had extensive ties to a variety of Islamist groups and individuals including Osama Bin Laden and Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman, the radical Egyptian cleric who was convicted of planning several terrorist bombings in New York. 

Recent US State Department cables characterize Dr. Ceric as deeply ambitious and known for “shady business dealings” including accepting substantial sums of money from wealthy supporters for the building of his private residence.  The cables also say that Dr. Ceric is among those who were heavily criticized “for past efforts to placate both extremist elements and silence their more moderate, secular critics.” The cables also indicate that ironically,he adopted the language of the Muslim Brotherhood in describing the 2008 events in Gaza by describing the Israeli military action there as “genocide.” Read the full story here.

For our profile on Mustafa Ceric, go here.

Huma Abedin Clinton aide’s emails face disclosure suit.

Huma Abedin Clinton aide’s emails face disclosure suit.(WT).

The emails of Huma Abedin, the top personal aide to former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, are now facing a disclosure lawsuit after the State Department failed to turn them over in response to an open-records request.

Judicial Watch, a conservative public interest law firm that uses open-records laws to pry information loose, had filed a request to get a look at Ms. Abedin’s emails during her four years at the State Department. News outlets have reported that Ms. Abedin also used the private email server Mrs. Clinton set up to handle government business, but the status of her messages is unclear.

It’s one of a number of open-records requests Judicial Watch filed after the email scandal broke, and Tom Fitton, president of the organization, said they’ve been stonewalled on all of them, so now they’re turning to the courts.

“We’re churning through these,” he said. “The scandal at the State Department is more than about Hillary Clinton. There are others involved.”

The State Department said it wouldn’t comment now that Judicial Watch has filed a lawsuit — though it had struggled to explain its procedures even before the lawsuit was filed, and the status is of Ms. Abedin’s emails remains unclear. Hmmm.....The Muslim Brotherhood club must be sweating bullets. Read the full story here.

Related: JUDICIAL WATCH FILES LAWSUIT AGAINST STATE DEPARTMENT FOR RECORDS ABOUT HILLARY CLINTON’S IPAD AND IPHONE

Qatar-based Muslim Brotherhood 'Godfather' Qaradawi urges protests in Egypt on uprising's anniversary.

Qatar-based Muslim Brotherhood 'Godfather' Qaradawi urges protests in Egypt on uprising's anniversary.(AlAhram).

A Qatar-based Muslim cleric called for protests in Egypt on the anniversary of the country's Jan 25 uprising against Hosni Mubarak and said Mohamed Morsi is Egypt's "legitimate" leader, in a speech that may worsen relations between Qatar and Egypt.

Sheikh Youssef al-Qaradawi, an Egyptian-born cleric who has close links to the Muslim Brotherhood, has been critical of Egypt's government, accusing President Abdel Fatah El-Sisi of betrayal for ousting President Mursi in 2013, a Muslim Brotherhood leader.

Qaradawi's outspoken support for the Islamist movement has contributed to a diplomatic rift between Qatar and its Gulf Arab allies and Egypt, who consider the Islamist group a security threat and supported Morsi's overthrow.

Since then, Qaradawi has refrained from delivering Friday sermons. But this has not stopped him from criticizing Egypt's rulers during conferences or by statements often sent by email.

"I call on the people of Egypt, all those capable to go out of their houses on this great occasion ... Egyptians should go out and express that they don't want anything but the revolution they had started," Qaradawi said in a video recording posted on his Twitter account on Sunday.

A source close to Qaradawi confirmed that the cleric is still in Doha and the recording of the message posted took place in Qatar.

In recent months, Qatar has taken steps to improve relations with Cairo, such as suspending broadcasts by the Qatari-owned al Jazeera television network of an Egypt-focused channel. But Qatar still hosts a number of Islamist figures, including Qaradawi, a continuous source of irritation to Egypt. Hmmmm......Anyone believing Qatar has stopped their MB Support needs a medical.

Turkish “Intellectuals” Demand Support For MB 'Godfather' Qaradawi: ‘Amounts to harm befalling moderate Islam in general,’

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Turkish “Intellectuals” Demand Support For MB 'Godfather' Qaradawi: ‘It also amounts to harm befalling moderate Islam in general,’ (GMBR).

A Turkish news portal is reporting that a group of scientists, journalists and writers is calling on Turkish authorities and Muslim countries to support Youssef Qaradawi after the international police agency INTERPOL issued a “Red Notice” for him based on an Egyptian request. According to the report:

January 10, 2014 After a red alert was issues for Qaradawi from Interpol, a group of scientist, journalists and writers from Turkey have said that they will not leave Qaradawi alone. They join more than 300 global Islamic scholars intellectuals and leaders who have signed a statement saying that any harm that befell Sheikh al-Qaradawi would amount to harm befalling them.

‘It also amounts to harm befalling moderate Islam in general,’ the signatories added. 

Scholars and intellectuals lashed out at the recent addition of the prominent cleric’s name to Interpol’s wanted list, describing the move as an ‘irresponsible’ act and an ‘insult’ to Islam and Muslims. 

The statement reads, ‘Yousf al-Qaradawi, in a legitimate elected election in 2012, Mohammad Morsi was ousted by a military coup in 2013, replaced by Egyptian President Abdulfettah es-Sisi and has since had a digified attitude. At the same time, Qaradawi has shared the joint pain of Muslims and has since persistently defended the Palestinian cause and has issued a fatwa that it is obligatory for Muslims to engage in jihad against the Zionist regime’. 

The statement called on Turkish authorities and Muslim countries to support Qaradawi, the Chairman of the International Union of Muslim Scholars.

Read the rest here.

The report goes on to identify the individuals who signed the statement.

In December 2013, the GMBDW was the first Western media to report that the international police agency INTERPOL had issued a “Red Notice” for Youssef Qaradawi which states that the Global Muslim Brotherhood leader was “wanted by the judicial authorities of Egypt for prosecution / to serve a sentence.” As we have often noted, a 2011 report report authored by the GMBDW editor concluded that since 2006, Turkey has become a new center for the Global Muslim Brotherhood and Hamas. Hmmm....Pretty obvious the new HQ of the muslim Brotherhood and Terrorist Hamas is 'Sometimes NATO and U.S. ally' Turkey.

For a profile of Youssef Qaradawi, go here.

Egypt Seizes Muslim Brotherhood 'Godfather' Qaradawi Assets.

Muslim Brotherhood R Us.

Egypt Seizes Muslim Brotherhood 'Godfather' Qaradawi Assets.(GMBR).

Saudi media is reporting that Egypt has seized the assets of Global Muslim Brotherhood leader Youssef Qaradawi. According to an  Asharq Al-Awsat report

Cairo, Asharq Al-Awsat—Egypt has seized the assets of controversial preacher Yusuf Al-Qaradawi, seen as the ‘spiritual guide’ of the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood organization, according to a judicial source. Qatar-based Qaradawi is currently wanted in Egypt, after being charged by state prosecutors of inciting violence in his televised sermons.

The source, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said the move was part of a mass seizure of assets of 112 members of the Anti-Coup Alliance group, which was formed to protest the Egyptian military’s ousting of Muslim Brotherhood-backed president Mohamed Mursi in July 2013.

‘These people are implicated in several cases related to funding terror plots and inciting acts of violence,’ the source added.

Dozens of attacks, including bombings and shootings, have targeted Egypt’s army, police and security personnel since Mursi’s ouster, acts the Egyptian authorities claim are being funded and organized by members of the now-banned Brotherhood. The group denies the accusations.

The assets seized by the state include all the personal property, real estate, funds and deposits in Egypt belonging to the 112 individuals, the source said.

Read the rest here.

In January 2014, the GMBDW reported that Egypt had  charged Qaradawi, along with the deposed President Mohammed Morsi and 129 other individuals, on charges of organizing prison breaks during the 2011 uprising. 

In December 2013, the GMBDW was the first Western media to report that the international police agency INTERPOL had issued a “Red Notice” for Youssef Qaradawi which states that the Global Muslim Brotherhood leader was “wanted by the judicial authorities of Egypt for prosecution / to serve a sentence.”

For a profile of Youssef Qaradawi, go here.