Terror-Supporting Sheikh: “Very Much in Tune”
The BBC slipped up in this one, a story about extremist terror sympathizer Sheikh Yusuf Al-Qaradawi, invited to Britain for a series of speeches to “mainstream” Muslim groups.
The BBC’s mistake? Well, they forgot that people like the Sheikh are only supposed to be supported by “a tiny minority of extremists:” Controversial preacher with ‘star status’.
It is particularly his views on suicide bombings that has courted controversy, but mainly in the West.
He has distanced himself from suicide attacks in the West but he has consistently defended Palestinian suicide attacks against Israelis.
Recently he told Al-Jazeera that he was not alone in believing that suicide bombings in Palestinian territories were a legitimate form of self defence for people who have no aircraft or tanks.
He said hundreds of other Islamic scholars are of the same opinion. In this respect, he is very much in tune with what the vast majority of people in the Arab world believe.