Sheikh Yussuf Qaradawi. Photo: Elder of Ziyon.

If you want to insult your opponent in the Muslim world, you can’t do better than to call him a Jew – or worse than a Jew.

We’ve already seen Muslim Brotherhood supporters claiming that Egypt’s al-Sisi is Jewish, and we’ve seen Sisi’s supporters saying that the original founder of the Muslim Brotherhood was Jewish.

We’ve seen Shiites accused of being worse than Jews, secularists accused of being worse than Jews. and Islamists accused of being worse than Jews.

So who’s left?

Why, it is our favorite antisemite and popular TV preacher, Sheikh Yussuf Qaradawi!

According to a pro-Shiite newspaper, “research” has shown that Qaradawi’s family came from an area where
Jews of the Bani Qurayza tribe had fled from Arabia to Egypt. His grandfather practiced usury, just like the Jews, and gouged farmers with high interest loans. He would confer with Jewish rabbis on how to do his immoral money lending business. In other words, while they don’t want to say it explicitly, Qaradawi is of obvious Jewish descent!

Qaradawi had called for jihad against Syria and Hezbollah, which pretty much explains this whole accusation.