Qaradawi call to fight Switzerland minaret ban Switzerland, Islam, ban, Yusuf Al-Qaradawi

Islamic scholar Sheikh Yousuf al-Qaradawi yesterday urged the Muslim community in Switzerland not to surrender to what he called a “racist ban” on minarets, saying that Muslims around the world should support their brethren in Europe.
In his Friday sermon, Sheikh Qaradawi said that the vote for a ban on the construction of minarets over mosques in Switzerland was mainly fuelled by an anti-Islam campaign launched by the far right.
“It is the extremist rightists who exploited Islamophobic sentiments to instigate voters against Islam and support such a racist ban in the referendum,” Sheikh Qaradawi told a congregation at the Omar bin al-Khattab Mosque in Khalifa Town.
“It is the duty of all Muslims to support their brethren in Europe by all legal and moral means while Muslims in Switzerland should not give in to the ban and challenge it through courts and rights groups,” he added.
Sheikh Qaradawi, who is the chairman of the Dublin-based International Union for Muslim Scholars, also criticised Muslim preachers for what he saw as a “failure to introduce the true image of Islam” to the world.
“This failure helped the Islam haters and extremists to distort the image of Islam and boost Islamophobic sentiments. We should preach the Islamic principles of justice, equality and mercy among all people,” he said.
Qaradawi, who is also the head of the European Fatwa Council, warned against a new surge in racism around the world.
“Racism should be history. The world cannot turn back once again so that the white man can be the master of the world,” he added.
He also dismissed fears of “Islamisation of Europe” as “baseless”.
“Fears of Islamisation of Europe are only a claim extremists make to frighten the public from Islam. I wonder how Europe can be Islamised if the majority of the 50 Muslim states do not apply Shariah laws,” he said.


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oh dear, again with the fighting? Why must we always fight? Did we have minarets in the days of the prophet? Now if the Swiss start demolishing mosques or people from praying, i would say fight back, but is all this fuss necessarry. I say it again, we muslims have all our priorities wrong?

oh dear, again with the fighting? Why must we always fight? Did we have minarets in the days of the prophet? Now if the Swiss start demolishing mosques or people from praying, i would say fight back,  ...
Noora Post at 5-12-2009 18:00

Well I think he means we fight in a nonviolent way through the courts and civil ways. I dont see problem in that, in my opinion i see the attack on minarets as attack on Masjids and Muslims so I think Muslims in Swiss should not bow down but try to challenge this racist and discriminatory act.