Spinning al Qaradawi

The Guardian yesterday published a fawning profile of Sheikh Yusuf al-Qaradawi, describing him as, "a complex, international figure, whose religious pronouncements address the dilemmas confronting Muslims in the modern world." Al-Qaradawi is in the headlines because, while in London to convene the European Council for Fatwa and Research and announce the establishment of the International Council of Clerics, he is being monitored by the government for evidence of hate speech.

While the Guardian frantically spins words to portray al-Qaradawi as a nuanced Islamic jurist rather than a slick Islamist, Armies of Liberation, Daimnation, Mick Hartley, Solomnia, and MEMRI give a decidedly more accurate picture of his global activities in the Islamist war against tolerance and plurality.