Nadene Goldfoot
Long ago in 1961, 64 years ago, Qatar hosted a man dedicated to the destruction of Israel; Qaradawi. Yusuf al-Qaradawi. Yusuf al-Qaradawi (Arabic: يوسف القرضاوي, romanized: Yūsuf al-Qaraḍāwī; or Yusuf al-Qardawi; 9 September 1926 – 26 September 2022) was an Egyptian Islamic scholar based in Doha, Qatar, and chairman of the International Union of Muslim Scholars.
One 35-year-old Egyptian cleric, who had already been imprisoned by both King Farouk and Gamal Abdel Nasser as a Muslim Brotherhood member, was sent to the small emirate of Qatar in 1961. Qatar was probably the least and poorest of those Arab Gulf states at the time. That young man, Yousuf Al-Qaradawi (1926-2022), who died last week in Doha at the age of 96, would rise to great heights as he tied his fate and ideology to that of an increasingly wealthy and ambitious princely family.
The Al Thani family, the ruling royal family of Qatar, was a key supporter of Yusuf al-Qaradawi. They granted him Qatari citizenship in 1969 and provided financial support for his travels and activities, particularly his visits to Muslim Brotherhood-affiliated organizations around the world according to a post on the Maydan website. Qaradawi was also protected by the Al Thani princes and given a diplomatic passport.
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By 1977, Qaradawi laid the foundation for the Faculty of Shari'ah and Islamic Studies at the University of Qatar and became the faculty's dean. Al-Qaradawi would flourish with the Muslims, founding the Faculty of Islamic Law (Sharia) at Qatar University in 1977 at age 55, writing and teaching, and building up networks of like-minded contacts and allies throughout the region. In the years before the Muslim Brotherhood was seen as a threat by Gulf states, he was rewarded by governments other than Qatar. In 1994, he received the King Faisal Prize in Islamic Studies from Saudi Arabia. In 2000, he was awarded the Dubai International Holy Quran Award for Islamic Personality of the Year, an award established by Dubai's ruling family.
Some of his views, such as his condoning of Palestinian suicide bombings against Israelis, caused reactions from governments in the West: he was refused an entry visa to the United Kingdom in 2008, and barred from entering France in 2012.
He lectured from Qatar to Muslims all over by TV, radio, whatever could be used against Israel. According to Qaradawi, the verses in the Quran that tell Muslims to break ties with Jews and Christians (Al-Maidah 5:54-55) refer to those people who were hostile to Islam and waged war against Muslims. This means that Muslims are not allowed to help or be friends with people who are hostile towards Islam, even if it means going against their own interests.
In August 2005, The Wall Street Journal reported that the Dublin-based European Council for Fatwa and Research, of which al-Qaradawi was president, had used the antisemitic Protocols of the Elders of Zion in its theological deliberations. Al-Qaradawi's remarks were sharply criticized by the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), which accused him of inciting violence against Jews.
In a 9 January 2009 sermon during the Gaza War, shown on Al-Jazeera, Qaradawi prayed for Allah to take revenge on the "enemies of Islam", specifically the Jews, whom he described as treacherous, aggressors who have spread much tyranny and corruption. He asked Allah to annihilate them completely, without sparing any of them]
In his Friday sermon broadcast on Qatar TV on 26 April 2013, Qaradawi announced that he would not participate in next year's interfaith dialogue if Jews were invited, stating that there should be no debate with those who have committed injustice. He cited a verse from the Quran which says that there should be no debate with the People of the Book except in a way that is best, and went on to say that the Jews have committed great injustice and that "their hands are soiled with blood". Note: Muslims are perfect, of course, in his mind, doing nothing.
Qaradawi's statements were described as incitement to genocide in a Jewish Political Studies Review article, which connected his belief in Jewish conspiracies to the appeals to violence against them.
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Qaradawi asserted that Hitler meted out divinely sanctioned punishment to the Jews and called for Muslims to impose a similar punishment, calling openly for genocide. His appeals for genocide were coupled with paranoid conspiracy thinking that identifies the Jews as the greatest enemies of Islam; alleging a Jewish plot to take over the entire Middle East, including Mecca and Medina; blaming the Jews for the abolition of the Islamic Caliphate in 1924 and the spread of communism; and accusing the Jews of planning to tear down the al-Aqsa Mosque so as to build a Jewish Temple in its place. (The Jewish Temple is a possibility but not tearing down the Mosque---though that might be an idea to place on the table.)
Defending bombings against Israeli civilians, al-Qaradawi told BBC Newsnight in 2005 that:"An Israeli woman is not like women in our societies, because she is a soldier.""I consider this type of martyrdom operation as an evidence of God's justice." "Allah Almighty is Just; through His infinite Wisdom He has given the weak a weapon the strong do not have and that is their ability to turn their bodies into bombs as Palestinians do."
In an interview with the newspaper Al Raya in April 2001, al-Qaradawi declared that suicide (or "martyrdom") bombings conducted by Palestinians against Israelis "are not suicide operations. These are heroic martyrdom operations, and the heroes who carry them out don't embark on this action out of hopelessness and despair but are driven by an overwhelming desire to cast terror and fear into the hearts of the oppressors."
On 8 May 2013, Qaradawi visited Gaza and gave a speech in support of Hamas. He asked all of the Palestinian people to work with other Arab people and Muslims around the world to destroy Israel, saying inflammatory things such as "Our wish should be that we carry out Jihad to death" and "We should seek to liberate Palestine, all of Palestine, inch by inch."
An Anti-Defamation League report in 2011 said that al-Qaradawi had voiced his desire to see Jerusalem conquered in a fatwa in which he claimed that it was the Muslims' duty to "defend" Jerusalem with "their lives, their money and all they possess, or else they will be subject to Allah's punishment."]
Remember; he's blaring all his frustrations of hatred of Jews to all the Muslims that are tuned in to his rants and ravings. Yusuf Qaradawi's television program, Ash-Shari'a wal-Hayat (Sharia and Life), on Al-Jazeera, had an estimated 60 million viewers. Some reports suggest even higher viewership figures, with some citing 700-800 million worldwide.
To answer the question of what Trump would do; Israel decided what to do. A new round of negotiations for a Gaza ceasefire and hostage deal between Hamas and Israel began in Qatar on Saturday after the Israeli military launched its new expanded offensive in the Gaza Strip, according to both Israeli and Hamas officials. Hamas confirmed a new round of talks was underway. Terror group official Taher al-Nono told Reuters that both sides were discussing all issues without “preconditions.”
Update: 5/20/25; 6:30am
Qatari Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Mohammed Al-Thani said that negotiations between Israel and Hamas have reached a dead end, blaming Israel. He said, "One side seeks a comprehensive agreement for Gaza, while the other insists on a partial deal. We have not been able to bridge the gap." Meanwhile, in remarks made at the Jerusalem Post Conference in New York, Adam Boehler, U.S. President Donald Trump's envoy for hostage affairs, said progress was being made. “We’re getting closer to a deal. If Hamas presents a legitimate offer and is ready to release hostages, we’re open to it. I do think we're closer [to a hostage deal] than we ever were, and part of that is because of movement that the IDF and Israel did on the ground—it strengthens our hand.”
Resource:
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Sheikh-Tamim-ibn-Hamad-Al-Thani
https://www.memri.org/reports/al-qaradawi-qatars-islamist-empire-builder
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