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Sheikh Yusuf Al-Qaradawi speaks to a crowd as he leads Friday prayers in Tahrir Square in Cairo, Egypt, on February 18, 2011.
(AP Photo/Khalil Hamra, File)
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Sheikh Yusuf Al-Qaradawi speaks to a crowd as he leads Friday prayers in Tahrir Square in Cairo, Egypt, on February 18, 2011.
(AP Photo/Khalil Hamra, File)
Interpol issues arrest warrants for more than 40 senior Muslim Brotherhood figures
Cairo, Asharq Al-Awsat—Interpol issued arrest warrants for more than 40 senior Muslim Brotherhood-affiliated figures, including head of the Doha-based International Union of Muslim Scholars Sheikh Yusuf Al-Qaradawi. “Egyptian authorities succeeded in persuading...Caption:
Egyptian-born cleric Sheikh Yusuf Al-Qaradawi talks during a news conference in Algiers March 28, 2007. (Reuters/Zohra Bensemra)
Opinion: Qaradawi’s Double Standards
Dr. Yusuf Al-Qaradawi criticized the US-led fight against the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) earlier this week. In a tweet, he said: “I oppose ISIS in its ideological path and its methods of action, but I will never agree that the country to fight it should be...Caption:
(From L, Top) European Union representative Pierre Vimont, United Nations special envoy in Iraq Nickolay Mladenov, Japanese Ambassador to Iraq Kazuya Nashida, Chinese Foreign Minister Li Baodong, British Foreign Minister Philip Hammond, Lebanese Foreign Minister Gebran Bassil, Qatar foreign minister Khaled al-Attiyah, Turkish Foreign Minister Melvut Cavusoglu, Arab League chief Nabil al-Arabi, (From l, Middle) Danish Foreign Minister Martin Liddegaard, Dutch Foreign Minister Frans Timmermans, Canadian Foreign Minister John Baird, Jordanian Foreign Minister Nasser Judeh, Foreign Minister of United Arab Emirates Sheik Abdullah Bin Zayed al Nahyan, Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry, Spanish Foreign Minister Jose Manuel Garcia-Margallo, Norwegian Foreign Borge Brende, Czech Foreign Minister Lubormir Zaoralek, German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier, (From L, Front) Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, Saudi Arabian Foreign Minister Prince Saud al-Faisal, Kuwaiti Foreign Minister Sheikh Sabah Khaled al-Sabah, Iraqi Foreign Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari, Iraqi President Fuad Masum, French President Francois Hollande, French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius, US Secretary of States John Kerry, Italian Foreign Minister Federica Mogherini, Belgian Foreign Minister Jean-Arthur Regibeau, Bahrain’s Foreign Minister Khalid bin Ahmed Al-Khalifa pose for a group photo at the International Conference on Peace and Security in Iraq on September 15, 2014 at the French Foreign Ministry in Paris on September 15, 2014. The leaders of France and Iraq on September 15 urged swift action against Islamic State militants, with President Francois Hollande warning there was “no time to lose” as he opened an international conference to shore up an anti-jihadist coalition. AFP Photo/Pool/Michel Euler)
Opinion: Déjà Vu All Over Again
The campaign that is being waged by some Islamists, backed by some nationalist and left-wing writers and a new generation of their students, against the new international alliance against religious terrorism reminds us of the cynicism and skepticism that dominated the...Caption:
Islamic State of Iraq and Syria fighters march through the streets of the Syrian town of Tel Abyad on January 2, 2014. (Reuters/Yaser Al-Khodor)