At the Center for Security Policy, we’ve been following Qaradawi’s career with special interest– not just his notoriously wide-ranging fatwas and over 100 publications on Shariah, but the scandal of his involvement as a Shariah-compliant finance authority to many of the world’s biggest banks. Now, thanks to the uprising in Egypt, Americans are learning about this dangerous man.

“Shariah and Life,” Qaradawi’s tv program on Al-Jazeera has about 60 million viewers across the Muslim world. The article aptly describes him as a “hypermarket of dogma,” or “Islam’s spiritual ‘Dear Abby,’” referring to the variety of topics he opines on. Of course, when Quaradawi discourses on, say, the Jews (asking Allah “to kill the Jewish Zionists, every last one of them”), it’s crucial to know that these fatwas are not just his personal opinion; they have a weight of law.

Who else– aside from the Sheik’s 60 million viewers– holds Quaradawi in high esteem? The Muslim Brotherhood. He can be considered their informal spiritual leader, though he’d turned down that title when it was offered in favor of his internet and tv careers in Qatar. He was also banned from his home country of Egypt by the Mubarak regime, who corrected believed he’d lead a jihadist popular uprising. He’s also banned in this country for his exhortations to murder US servicemen.

Shockingly, Qaradawi is known as a ‘moderate’ by some analysts in the US and Europe. An example of such moderation: “The only thing that I hope for is that as my life approaches its end, Allah will give me an opportunity to go to the land of Jihad and resistance, even if in a wheelchair. I will shoot Allah’s enemies, the Jews, and they will throw a bomb at me, and thus, I will seal my life with martyrdom. Praise be to Allah.”

http://bigpeace.com/dreaboi/2011/02/17/muslim-brotherhoods-endgame-qaradawi-returns-to-egypt/