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February 16, 2011       Share:    

Source: http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,745526,00.html

The Voice of Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood

(Der Spiegel-Germany) Alexander Smoltczyk - Muslim televangelist Youssef al-Qaradawi, 84, the father figure of Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood, says what the Brotherhood in Egypt thinks. Al-Jazeera television has been broadcasting Qaradawi's program "Shariah and Life" every Sunday for the past 15 years to some 60 million Muslims. Qaradawi advocates establishing a "United Muslim Nations" as a contemporary form of the caliphate and the only alternative to the hegemony of the West. He hates Israel and would love to take up arms himself. In one of his sermons, he asked God "to kill the Jewish Zionists, every last one of them." Former Egyptian President Nasser imprisoned Qaradawi three times because of his Islamist activities, and in 1961 he went into exile in Qatar.

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