The intense fighting at Qusayr between the forces of Bashar Assad and Hizballah vs. Al Nusra and the Free Syrian Army is igniting sectarian sentiment in the Islamic world. The influential cleric and spiritual leaders of the Muslim Brotherhood Qaradawi has called on Sunnis to go fight Jihad in Syria. He singled out Hezbollah in his call for Jihad.
Influential Muslim cleric Youssef al-Qaradawi has called on Sunni Muslims to join the rebels fighting the Syrian regime, as he lashed out at Lebanon’s Hizbullah for sending its men to fight the mostly-Sunni insurgents in Syria.
Qaradawi, a controversial figure in the West but who has millions of supporters, mostly from the Muslim Brotherhood, also hit out at Iran for backing the Syrian regime of President Bashar Assad.
“Every Muslim trained to fight and capable of doing that (must) make himself available” to support the Syrian rebels, the cleric said at a rally in Doha late Friday.
“Iran is pushing forward arms and men (to back the Syrian regime), so why do we stand idle?” he said, branding Hizbullah, which means the party of God in Arabic, as the “party of Satan”.
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“The leader of the party of the Satan comes to fight the Sunnis… Now we know what the Iranians want… They want continued massacres to kill Sunnis,” Qaradawi said.
This gets better by the day!
Tags: Arab Spring, Syrian War, Youssef al-Qaradawi
