The French revolutionary Robespierre once observed that: "clerics are to virtue what charlatans are to medicine." Here is this Egyptian fundamentalist cleric, Yusuf Al-Qardawi: he rails and yells regularly, and yet if he is ever summoned by an Arab prince or a king, he rushes in a second to pay homage. (He once was humiliated at UAE airport and yet would not dare say a bad word about UAE ruler). He claims to be disturbed by the sufferings of the Palestinians, and yet says not a word about the Qatari friendship with Ariel Sharon. HE after all is very close to the corrupt Qatari prince. And here he is accusing the French government of hostility to Islam. I would take him more seriously if he speaks against the House of Saud and their intolerance and fanaticism.