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(IPT News)- During the past month, Imam Yusuf al-Qaradawi, spiritual guide to the Muslim Brotherhood, has called on Muslims to acquire nuclear weapons to terrorize their enemies. He also boycotted an interfaith meeting with Jews on grounds he believes they support murdering Muslims in Palestine, and he additionally said Muslims are permitted to kill Israeli women because they serve in the army.
This continues Qaradawis long-established support of violent jihad. But despite this record, he has been embraced as a moderate Muslim by his defenders in the West and the Arab world. In a September interview, former London Mayor Ken Livingstone said the fact that Sheikh Qaradawi has been banned [from Britain] is a disgrace; he is one of the leading progressive voices in the Muslim world. Livingstone blamed a huge smear campaign organized by Zionists.
In America, John Esposito, a religious scholar who is close to the Brotherhood, has called Qaradawi a supporter of a reformist interpretation of Islam and its relationship to democracy, pluralism and human rights. The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) and prominent Islamists like Tariq Ramadan, grandson of Muslim Brotherhood founder Hasan al-Banna, have expressed similar sentiments about Qaradawi.
Barrie Osborne, producer of Hollywood blockbusters like The Lord of the Rings and The Matrix, has hired Qaradawi as a consultant for a movie about the Prophet Mohammed. Last month, Qaradawi was given a medal for public service by King Abdullah of Jordan.
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