The accusation against Yusuf al-Qaradawi that he had called for the abduction and killing of US civilians in Iraq, during talk to the Egyptian Journalists’ Syndicate in Cairo at the end of August, has received widespread coverage, despite the fact that Dr al-Qaradawi himself immediately denied the accuracy of the report in an interview with Al Jazeera.

Abu Aardvark reveals that leading Egyptian journalist Fahmi Huwaydi obtained a recording of the Cairo meeting and was able to confirm the truth of Qaradawi’s denial. Abu Aardvark also complains that “a number of American magazines and newspapers have expressed no interest in this information when I presented it to them. As I feared, the conventional wisdom has congealed around a lie”.

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