Yusuf al-Qaradawi

Saudi Arabians are using the news outlet Al Arabia as a black propaganda weapon to make "terrorists" out of the Qataris, but now we have our own local version. 

The head of the Religious Affairs Directorate (Diyanet) criticized the Gulf countries' decision to add Qatar-based Egyptian Islamic theologian Yusuf al-Qaradawi to the designated terrorist list on June 15.

A 59-name blacklist that the countries led by Saudi Arabia announced on June 9 further escalated tension between themselves and Qatar. 

Another disastrous project with the name "peace" is on its way, with U.S. President Donald Trump's recent consequent visits to Saudi Arabia and Israel revealing the pillars of this new policy.  The new administration is appealing to the U.S.'s so-called old Sunni allies in search of a rehabilitation of Muslims' relations with Israel, and the interests and willingness seem mutual. 

President Trump is looking anew at American allies and partners. While saying he will preserve these relationships, he wants them to pay their fair share and uphold their side of the relationship. Whether it is South Korea or Saudi Arabia, they are subject to his calls for them to contribute more and defray our costs in deploying forces to defend them.

Egyptian clerics, particularly during the Gezi protests of 2013, were the inevitable darlings of Turkey's Islamists. Remember Yusuf al-Qaradawi, the president of the Association of Muslim Scholars and the ideological leader of the Muslim Brotherhood, who decreed in June 2013 that the Gezi protesters were "acting against Allah's will." The Turkish clergy never objected to that fatwa. 

Qatar expressed "deep concern" on June 17 over a death sentence handed down by an Egyptian court against ousted Islamist president Mohamed Morsi and called for his release.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on Dec. 8 criticized Egypt’s military rulers for having Interpol issue an arrest warrant for a Muslim scholar.