Qaradawi call to fight Switzerland minaret ban Publish Date: Saturday,5 December, 2009, at 12:33 PM Doha Time By Anwar Elshamy Sheikh Yousuf al-Qaradawi Islamic scholar Sheikh Yousuf al-Qaradawi yesterday urged the Muslim community in Switzerland not to surrender to what he called a "racist ban" on minarets, saying that Muslims around the world should support their brethren in Europe. In his Friday sermon, Sheikh Qaradawi said that the vote for a ban on the construction of minarets over mosques in Switzerland was mainly fuelled by an anti-Islam campaign launched by the far right. "It is the extremist rightists who exploited Islamophobic sentiments to instigate voters against Islam and support such a racist ban in the referendum," Sheikh Qaradawi told a congregation at the Omar bin al-Khattab Mosque in Khalifa Town. "It is the duty of all Muslims to support their brethren in Europe by all legal and moral means while Muslims in Switzerland should not give in to the ban and challenge it through courts and rights groups," he added. Sheikh Qaradawi, who is the chairman of the Dublin-based International Union for Muslim Scholars, also criticised Muslim preachers for what he saw as a "failure to introduce the true image of Islam" to the world. "This failure helped the Islam haters and extremists to distort the image of Islam and boost Islamophobic sentiments. We should preach the Islamic principles of justice, equality and mercy among all people," he said. Qaradawi, who is also the head of the European Fatwa Council, warned against a new surge in racism around the world. "Racism should be history. The world cannot turn back once again so that the white man can be the master of the world," he added. He also dismissed fears of "Islamisation of Europe" as "baseless". "Fears of Islamisation of Europe are only a claim extremists make to frighten the public from Islam. I wonder how Europe can be Islamised if the majority of the 50 Muslim states do not apply Shariah laws," he said. Back <http://www.gulf-times.com/site/topics/article.asp?cu_no=2&item_no=330094&ve rsion=1&template_id=36&parent_id=16> to Article Homepage <http://www.gulf-times.com/site/topics/index.asp?cu_no=2> -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of [email protected] Sent: Thursday, December 03, 2009 6:53 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Is-lam] Bls: Bls: LDII Menegakkan Kemurnian Agama IslamdiIndonesia Maaf ikut komen, Pak Waluyo sepertinya jawaban anda sekedar normatif karena kenyataan tidak seperti itu. Saya punya family tetap lebih memilih koran sebagai alas ketimbang sajadah yg kami tawarkan. Meskipun bagi kami sudah maklum karena itu prinsip kalian dan silaturahim tetap tdk terganggu. Powered by Telkomsel BlackBerryR -----Original Message----- From: Budi Waluyo <[email protected]> Date: Thu, 3 Dec 2009 07:20:39 To: <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [Is-lam] Bls: Bls: LDII Menegakkan Kemurnian Agama Islam di Indonesia _______________________________________________ Is-lam mailing list [email protected] http://server03.abangadek.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/is-lam _______________________________________________ Is-lam mailing list [email protected] http://server03.abangadek.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/is-lam
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