Qaradawi’s IUMS has long history of terrorism, extremism

CAIRO – 25 November 2017: After a long history of terrorism and extremism, the Arab Quartet declared the International Union for Muslim Scholars (IUMS) as a terrorist organization on Thursday, after the violations of its head, Yusuf Al-Qaradawi, and its shelter in Qatar.

Since its beginning in 2004, the International Union of Muslim Scholars became one of the many organizations taking over Muslims’ affairs and directing them towards a narrow political agenda.

IUMS is financially supported by Qatar’s former Emir Hamad Al Thani, and it has been based in Doha. It has sought such populist rhetoric over the past 13 years to dominate the streets and played an inflammatory role by issuing statements and positions of a partisan political nature, inciting chaos across the region.

IUMS has always been used as a religious and political cover for many prominent individuals tied to the global Muslim Brotherhood throughout the world. It includes more than 42 members from Arab and non-Arab countries to perform the agenda of the Qatari regime.

Although IUMS was established to be international platform for Muslims, Qaradawi changed its destination to become an international platform for terrorism and extremism.

Qaradawi and MB used IUMS against Egypt, as well as Arab countries, in disagreement, incitement, assistance to commit murder, helping prisoners to escape, arson, vandalism, theft and support of terrorism.

On December 5, 2014, Interpol issued a Red Notice alert, seeking the arrest of Qaradawi, at the request of the Egyptian government, on charges including incitement and assistance to commit intentional murder. Qaradawi’s support of terrorism led the United States to ban him from entering the country in 1999. Britain barred his entry in 2008 and France in 2012.

Colonel Hatem Saber, expert in fighting against international terrorism, stated that IUMS is a nucleus of these militant groups that have appeared nowadays, including ISIS, Al- Qaeda and others.

It is clear that the founding leaders are the source of all these terrorist groups, indicating that the Qatari regime uses IUMS as international leverage to carry out its hostile policy, added Saber.

A leaked document from Qatar Charity revealed a suspicious relationship between the Qatari NGO and the Ministry of Defense, amid Arab and regional accusations against the ruling regime of supporting terrorist groups.

The document disclosed secret financial transactions between the Qatar Charity and the Defense Ministry, which suggested that the Qatari NGO used donations in supporting undeclared military activities.

The document raised controversy about the credibility and independence of the Qatari NGO, which was listed among 12 entities and 59 individuals labeled as terrorists by the Anti-Terrorism Quartet.

The list included the Muslim Brotherhood’s spiritual leader, Qaradawi, and some Qatari-funded charities, such as Qatar Charity and Eid Charity.

“Qatar hosts the second-largest number of designated terrorists in the world,” Yousef al-Otaiba, the UAE’s ambassador to the United States, said during the Atlantic interview on Monday, adding that Iran comes first.

Since July 5, Arab countries, including Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain and United Arab of Emirates, turned on Qatar with a complete air and trade boycott over terrorism support accusations and choosing sides with the extremist government of Iran.