Tuesday, September 20, 2011

Yusuf Al-Qaradawi

Yusuf Al-Qaradawi is one of the most repulsive figures on TV.  And his weekly religious show on Aljazeera (which I am sure is watched by millions) is a theater of the sectarian fanatics.  This graduate of the lousy Ikhwan of Egypt (who hated Nasser much more than they hated Israel, and who were a tool in Saudi-US hands during the war--which side were you on during the Cold War? House of Saud or their enemies?), is a mere tool of Qatari Emir.  Don't think he cares about the people of Syria.   Only a few years ago, he showered praise on Bashshar: hell, he kept praising Bashshar and "his Sunni wife" long after protests broke out in Syria.  The sectarian fanatic host of the show asked Qaradawi in the last episode: is it not disturbing to refer to the uprisings in the region as "Arab revolutions" when that term is pleasing to Arab nationalists?  I kid you not.  Qaradawi sounded as dumb as Ahmadinajad when he asserted that Islam is the "motor" (or engine) of the revolutions.