Date of source: Saturday, November 10, 2001
The Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI) issued a report titled "Egypt’s Al-Azhar Clerics: We declare war on America," The title implies that many if not most Azhar scholars declared war on America. Dr. Abdel Mo’ti Bayoumi stressed that this was certainly not true. He said that the report...
Date of source: Sunday, October 28, 2001
The United Arab Emirates denied
yesterday that the responsible authorities had been aware that sheikh Youssef Al-Qaradawi had been prevented from
entering the Emirates. They assured that what had happened was a single mistake and disapproved and felt sorry
about what he said about him not being...
Date of source: Saturday, October 27, 2001
Abu Dhabi airport authorities prevented Dr.
Youssef Al-Qaradawi from entering the Emirates, after he showed his Qatari identification, which he uses to pass
into the Gulf-Countries. Al-Qaradawi thought this was a direct instruction from Washington.
Date of source: Monday, October 29, 2001
The fatwa concerning the legal position of Muslim-American military men with regard to participating in the American attacks on Afghanistan was issued before the start of the attacks. However, because it reached American-Muslim military men after the war had started it was wrongly understood to...
Date of source: Wednesday, October 10, 2001
Thousands of students demonstrated in the universities of Egypt, condemning the American attacks on Afghanistan. They held a massive conference, during which they phoned Dr. Youssef Al-Qaradawi, who made a statement on the telephone, saying that terrorism was an American fabrication and that what...
Date of source: Saturday, October 13, 2001
Sheikh Youssef Al-Qaradawi criticized the attitude the ministers of foreign affairs of the Islamic countries adopted in the Doha conference. He observed that it did not express the feelings of the Islamic street and that he was hoping the Islamic ministerial conference would declare its opinion...
Date of source: Monday, October 1, 2001
Many fatwas were issued by Muslim scholars from different Islamic countries concerning the expected American attacks against Afghanistan. They were all to the effect that any cooperation between an Islamic country and the USA to attack Afghanistan or any other Arabic or Islamic country, with the...
Date of source: Tuesday, September 25, 2001
Sheikh Youssef Al-Qaradwi, the head of the European Fatwa Council, said that the Islamic Research Center did not acknowledge him. But the former rector of the Azhar, Dr. Abdel-Mo’ti Bayoumi and Dr. Mustafa Al-Shoka’a denied this and stressed that Al-Qaradawi is a great scholar and that there was no...
Date of source: Friday, March 31, 2006
The author believes that Islam rescued eastern Christianity from being exterminated during the Byzantine period. He then says it is ingratitude of the Egyptian church to begin a policy of Christianizing Muslims.
Date of source: Saturday, March 18, 2006
A report of a conference hosted by Bahrain in March in support of the Prophet Muhammad in the aftermath of the Danish cartoons crisis.