DOHA: Egypt’s famed Arabic daily Al Ahram has attacked Doha-based eminent Islamic scholar Dr Yusuf Al Qaradawi.
Abdula Nasser Salama, Al Ahram’s editor-in-chief, in his column on December 29, severely criticised Dr Al Qaradawi, who is head of the International Union of Islamic Scholars, and Dr Mohammed El Baradei, former head of International Atomic Energy Agency, and said they were destabilising the country and implementing foreign agenda.
“These two elderly leaders have come from abroad with different agendas. One is calling (referring to El Baradei) for abolition of the constitution endorsed by the public in a recent referendum without respect for people while the other (referring to Al Qaradawi) said he led a demonstration in Al Azhar University against Syria.”
Syria is facing a sectarian conflict and not people’s revolution by any means. The demonstration amounts to dragging Egypt into intervening in others’ internal affairs’ said Salama in his column.
He also accused Dr Al Qaradawi of influencing simple-minded Egyptians with his concerns over Sunni–Shia conflict, and described him as suffering from ‘dementia and hallucinations’ and he called upon the two “elders” Al Baradae and Al Qaradawi to go back from where they had come.
Meanwhile, Salama’s writing has triggered strong reaction from political parties and supporters of Dr Qaradawi as they feel he has insulted the eminent cleric.
The Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs in Cairo has issued a statement yesterday signed by Dr Saleh Din Sultan calling for legal action against Salama.
Some other scholars and experts also have called for legal action against Salama through social networks and other media. The Peninsula
