More Islamophobia from Harry's Place
Wednesday, August 3, 2005 Over at Harry's Place, it's back to the fable about Yusuf al-Qaradawi calling for the execution of gay men. Harry reproduces a report that Qatar's Crown Prince Tameem Bin Hamad Al-Thani has been outed in a Dubai-based publication after being banned from the G.A.Y. nightclub in London for getting involved in a bar fight.
"Anyway, who cares?" Harry comments. "Well, London Mayor Ken Livingstone's 'moderate' mate Sheikh Yusuf Al-Qaradawi does. He gave this quote to Al-jazeera magazine: 'The scholars of Islam, such as Malik, Ash-Shafi'i, Ahmad and Ishaaq said that (the person guilty of this crime) should be stoned, whether he is married or unmarried'."
In fact, the quotation isn't from Qaradawi at all, but from a prominent Saudi Wahhabist, Mohammed Salih Al-Munajjid (see here). "Aljazeera" magazine (which has no connection to the famous TV station of that name) obviously made a mistake and misattributed it.
Harry is apparently a journalist by profession, and it is of course a general principle that journalists should check their sources. However, this principle evidently ceases to apply when it's a question of attacking Muslims.
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