The newspaper added that radicals such as Yussef al-Qaradawi, an Egyptian-born cleric who has visited Britain from his home in Qatar, and who backed suicide bombers in the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, could be stopped from entering Britain.
al-Qaradawi is a lot more dangerous than that. Take a look at this.
Livingstone can't say he wasn't warned about the Egyptian theologian. Just before he met him in July last year, the papers were filled with the most lurid reports of his views. Apparently he advocated the murder of homosexuals and Israeli civilians and beating-up women. If Livingstone had qualms, they didn't show. He sent the limousine anyway. [...]
Livingstone claimed that Qaradawi was an enemy of terrorism. Yet when a genuinely moderate Egyptian cleric, Mohammad Sayed Tantawi, condemned the murders of Israeli children by suicide bombers, Qaradawi, was furious. 'Has fighting colonizers become a criminal and terrorist act for some sheikhs?' he roared
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