Muslim scholar Qaradawi passes away
DOHA, Qatar/ ANKARA (AA) – Influential Muslim scholar Sheikh Yusuf al-Qaradawi died on Monday at age 97, according to his official Twitter account.
The Doha-based International Union for Muslim Scholars (IUMS) also confirmed the scholar’s death in a statement on its website.
Qaradawi, an Egypt-born cleric who was based in Qatar, was the founder of the IUMS.
He was the spiritual leader of Muslim Brotherhood.
Qaradawi was highly critical of the coup that overthrew Egypt’s first democratically elected president, Mohamed Morsi, in 2013, according to Al-Jazeera.
Qaradawi condemned the 9/11 attacks in the United States by jihadist militants from al-Qaeda and backed the pro-democracy uprisings against the leaders of Egypt, Libya and Syria during the Arab Spring, according to BBC.
But he also called on Muslims to fight Americans in Iraq following the 2003 invasion and claimed that Islam justified Palestinian suicide bomb attacks against Israelis during the second Palestinian intifada that began in 2000.
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