Where does one start in responding something so horrible as this?

Qaradawi is a member of the Muslim Brotherhood, which is a Sunni group that advocates a total Islamic theocracy. He is apparently a product of the same hate-based educational system that produced the Taliban. He should serve as a chilling reminder of just how looney the Islamofacist crowd really is.

How can one even have a discussion with someone like this with such extreme views? Sadly, my first reaction to reading Qaradawi's comments was to wish for him a horrible and painful death - specifically, throwing him off of the top of the highest building I could find, then pushing a wall over on top of him and then dumping barrels of pig's blood on top for good measure - but that would put me in the same category as this hatemonger.

What I would like to see is for there to be a Reformation within Islam. The Muslim world needs an Enlightenment, much like Europe did after so many centuries of dominance by the Roman Catholic Church. Muslims used to be the most civilized and intellectual groups on the planet, but that was well over 600 years ago. Today Muslims are among the most insular and xenophobic groups on the planet, their minds polluted with a harsh literalist view of religion.

Sad. Sad. Sad. I hate how this man makes me feel about Islam and Muslims. I hate how this man's own hatred oozes out and contaminates the world.

If you really want to get worked up over this, go over to MEMRI and read the whole translation. It is sickening.

Regarding "I hate how this man makes me feel about Islam and Muslims."
That's misplaced. Imagine someone in another country decrying some nutty U.S. cleric or politician. Imagine that person hating all American and all Americans based on that.

That man should make you hate clerics like him. And that's it. I'm Muslim. And gay. As are millions. We're on your side, not his. It doesn't help if stuff like this makes you hate Muslims generally.

Face it, his opinions are the natural progression to standard gay animus. There's nothing particularly Muslim about it. Is he any worse than Fred Phelps and God Hates Fags? Christian scriptures call for killing homosexuals.

If there's ever a Reformation within Islam, I hope it's led by women. Muslim women bear the real brunt of brutes like this "cleric" (a politician, really).

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Take away the crutch of all religion and the world would be a much better place in my view .

Dr. Qaradawi did not ask which punishment is "easiest", but in fact - in an adjacent part that MEMRI edited out - said that we should apply the "lightest".

It's laughable that Jonathon could suggest we "go over to MEMRI and read the whole translation". The whole programme is available to read and listen to in Arabic - I have links on my blog post, plus some extra bits translated.

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Dr. Qaradawi did not ask which punishment is "easiest", but in fact - in an adjacent part that MEMRI edited out - said that we should apply the "lightest".

It's laughable that Jonathon could suggest we "go over to MEMRI and read the whole translation". The whole programme is available to read and listen to in Arabic - I have links on my blog post, plus some extra bits translated.

Eye on Gay Muslims
http://gaymuslims.org

Dr. Qaradawi did not ask which punishment is "easiest", but in fact - in an adjacent part that MEMRI edited out - said that we should apply the "lightest".

It's laughable that Jonathon could suggest we "go over to MEMRI and read the whole translation". The whole programme is available to read and listen to in Arabic - I have links on my blog post, plus some extra bits translated.

Eye on Gay Muslims
http://gaymuslims.org