“Qaradawi, as I’ve written many times, is probably the leading moderate Islamist, and the most popular Islamist public intellectual, in the Arab world today…. Qaradawi, for all his Muslim Brotherhood roots, has spent the last few decades preaching a moderate, tolerant form of Islamism which places dialogue, toleration, and democracy at the center of Islamic political theory.”
US political scientist Abu Aardvark defends Yusuf al-Qaradawi against the outbreak of Islamophobic hysteria in the British press prompted by Dr al-Qaradawi’s visit to London.