{"id":3167,"date":"2013-12-04T07:23:33","date_gmt":"2013-12-04T07:23:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/wp3\/?p=3167"},"modified":"2013-12-04T07:23:33","modified_gmt":"2013-12-04T07:23:33","slug":"egypt-qaradawi-quits-al-azhar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sunnionline.us\/english\/2013\/12\/04\/3167\/","title":{"rendered":"Egypt: Qaradawi quits Al-Azhar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"images\/stories\/news3\/yousef-qardavi.jpg\" border=\"0\" style=\"float: right; margin: 5px;\" \/>Prominent Qatar-based cleric Yusuf Al-Qaradawi resigned from the governing body of Egypt\u2019s Al-Azhar on Monday in protest at the head of the institution\u2019s support for the country\u2019s military-backed government.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>  <!--more-->  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The cleric posted a message on his Facebook and Twitter accounts saying that he was quitting Al-Azhar\u2019s Senior Scholars Committee \u201cin the name of the great Egyptian people,\u201d and accused its leader, Sheikh Ahmed Al-Tayeb, of \u201cabusing the authority of the office to support the military coup.\u201d<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Qaradawi, a supporter of the Muslim Brotherhood, has been a fierce critic of the toppling of Brotherhood-backed former President Mohamed Mursi earlier this year by the Egyptian armed forces following mass protests against him and the Brotherhood.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">His resignation comes only a day before the draft of a new constitution was presented to Egypt\u2019s interim president, Adly Mansour. The new document, which will be the subject of a referendum later this month, replaces one passed by Mursi last year.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The 50-strong committee that drafted the new constitution included Sheikh Tayeb. It held its final meeting on Monday, the same day Qaradawi announced his resignation.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u201cWe have waited for the Sheikh of Al-Azhar to return to the correct path and to disassociate himself from the tyrant regime,\u201d Qaradawi\u2019s statement said. <\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">He called on \u201cfree sons and scholars of Al-Azhar\u201d to \u201cquit that institution that has become a dead corpse.\u201d<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Qaradawi, 86, left Egypt for Qatar in 1961 after being imprisoned by the Free Officers government led by Gamal Abdel Nasser. Despite his absence from the country, he was able to amass a considerable following in Egypt thanks to his appearances on the Qatar-based satellite news channel Al-Jazeera.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Source: <em><strong>Asharq Al-Awsat<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prominent Qatar-based cleric Yusuf Al-Qaradawi resigned from the governing body of Egypt\u2019s Al-Azhar on Monday in protest at the head of the institution\u2019s support for the country\u2019s military-backed government.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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