On September 26, 2022, Sheikh Yusuf al-Qaradawi, considered for many years one of the
senior scholars in Sunni Islam, died at 96.1 Qaradawi, born in Egypt, arrived in the early 1960s
from Egypt to Qatar, which became the center of his activity.
In Qatar he acted freely,
establishing among other things a network of global Islamic organizations, including the
Coalition of Good (I’tilaf al-Khayr), an economic wing of charity organizations that funneled
funds from the entire world, including Europe, to the Hamas movement. At the same time, he
headed, until 2018, the radical Islamic organization World Association of Muslim Scholars,
which he co-founded in 2004. Through this organization, he concentrated and coordinated
the activity of radical Islamic scholars around the world, many of them members of the
Muslim Brotherhood, but there were also members of other streams, some of them even
more radical than the Muslim Brotherhood, shaping together the current radical Islamic
discourse.