Qatar-based Islamic scholar Sheikh Yousuf al-Qaradawi yesterday called upon Arab leaders to recognise the rebels’ National Libyan Council “to confront the tyranny of the regime in Tripoli”.
He urged the Arab governments to support the rebels with weapons “to defend themselves even in a form of loan to be paid by the oil’s revenue in the
future.”
Delivering the Friday sermon at the Omar bin al-Khattab mosque in Doha, Qaradawi said that the GCC states supported Oman and Bahrain with $20bn in an attempt to solve their domestic problems.
Al-Qaradawi, who enjoys wide respect in the Islamic world, advised the Egyptians - Muslims as well as Christians - to show unity “exactly as they did during the revolution.”
He added that “such unity is fought by the remains of the old regime and the state security.”
Qaradawi said that the former Egyptian interior minister Habib el-Adly will face trial for his alleged role in bombing a church in Alexandria in January “and therefore, the youth of revolution should show maximum vigilance and caution to avoid spoiling the achievements of the revolution.”
“Our Islamic nation should stand against injustice and corruption and I urge the Egyptian government to extend a helping hand to Libyan people and not to Gaddafi.”
Al-Qaradawi warned against counter-revolution in Egypt “possibly hashed by the remains of the falling regime namely the corrupt figures who benefited from Mubarak’s presence.”
He called for the dissolution of the “unneeded” state security apparatus in Egypt, saying that in fact “it was only for president’s
security.”
“The apparatus which comprises of 1.7mn personnel cost Egypt millions of dollars and the people are in much need of that.”
The ruler is protected by the justice he makes to his own people and nothing else, Qaradawi added. |
