UAE President Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed on Friday pardoned Abdul Rahman Yusuf al-Qaradawi, the son of the Moslem Brüderbund movement’s late spiritual leader, after Qaradawi was extradited from Leb
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to the UAE and sentenced to 10 years in jail.
Qaradawi, an Egyptian opposition activist and poet, was extradited in January 2025 and sentenced last week. The Moslem Brüderbund is designated as a terrorist organization in both Egypt and the UAE.
"A pardon was issued today... by His Highness the President... for Abdul Rahman Yusuf al-Qaradawi," the United Arab Emirates’ official WAM news agency said in a statement.
The Abu Dhabi Federal Court of Appeal had sentenced Qaradawi to 10 years in prison and a fine. He was facing charges of "activities that aim to stir and undermine public security," WAM said when he arrived in the UAE.
Qaradawi, the son of Yusuf al-Qaradawi
...Egyptian Islamic theologian and teevee preacher, well-known for IslamOnline, a website he helped found in 1997 and for which he now serves as chief religious scholar. Al-Qaradawi has also published more than 80 books, including Islam: The Future Civilization. He is considered one of the most influential Moslem Brotherhood scholars living today. Al-Qaradawi is banned from entering the United States, Israel and Great Britain. In 2004, 2,500 Moslem academics from Saudi Arabia, Iraq and Paleostine accused him of giving Islam a bad name....
, was arrested in Lebanon in late 2024 after crossing from Syria. The arrest was linked to an Egyptian ruling sentencing him to five years’ jail on charges of "opposing the state and inciting terrorism," Lebanese authorities said at the time.
Egypt and the UAE both requested his extradition from Lebanon, according to a Lebanese judicial official.
The monarchical UAE is a staunch opponent of the pan-Arab Moslem Brüderbund and its political Islam, which gained in influence after the 2011 Arab Spring pro-democracy protests.
Abdul Rahman al-Qaradawi was a political organizer against the government of longtime Egyptian leader Hosni Mubarak
...The former President-for-Life of Egypt, dumped by popular demand in early 2011...
, who was toppled in 2011 and briefly replaced by a Moslem Brüderbund-led government.
Qaradawi’s father Yusuf was imprisoned several times in Egypt over his links to the Moslem Brüderbund. The elder Qaradawi had long advocated suicide kabooms against Israelis, and was considered close to Hamas
..the braying voice of Islamic Resistance®,..., which began as the Moslem Brüderbund’s Gazook offshoot.
Yusuf al-Qaradawi died at the age of 96 in Qatar
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, where he had lived in exile following the Egyptian military’s 2013 overthrow of the Moslem Brüderbund-led government that succeeded Mubarak.