Qaradawe rejects post of Murshid of Muslim Brothers; does not want restrictions
Egypt, Politics, 1/12/2004

The Islamic clergy, Youssef al-Qaradawi, yesterday denied news which spoke of his nomination for the post of the general Murshid for the Ikhwan al-Musilimin (Muslim Brothers) group, after the death of the general Murshid, Muhammad Ma'moun, al-Hudeibi in Egypt last week.

A statement issued from al-Qaradawi office said "I have preferred since a long time not to be linked to any organization that limits my movement, even if it is the Muslim Brothers, the group under the shadow of which I spent my youth and life span in serving it."

He added that he was consulted to assume the post of the general Murshid, after the death of Hassan al-Hudeibi ( the second general Murshid of the Muslim brothers ), and before the death of Omar al-Talmisani ( the third general Murshid), and he "refrained from taking this post."

Worthy mentioning that al-Qaradawi ( 77 year old) was an activist in the Muslim brothers Organization in Egypt since the 1940s. This cost him three times imprisonments. He fled from Egypt to Qatar by the end of the 1950s where he got the nationality by the end of the 1970s, after the Egyptian nationality was revoked from him under, the rule of the former Egyptian President Jamal Abdul Nasser.

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