Has Dawa Conquered Britain, as a Muslim Brotherhood Icon Foretold?

Read Maddy Kearns’s superb and alarming column on the surrender of British police to pro-Hamas mobs. With it, effectively and inexorably, we find the enforcement of Islamic sharia strictures at the expense of British liberties.

This put me in mind (as many things have over the past month) of the late Sheikh Yusuf al-Qaradawi, the Muslim Brotherhood jurisprudent who, when he died a year ago at 96, was the most influential Sunni Islamic scholar in modern history and, for Hamas (the Brotherhood’s Palestinian branch), the polestar. Qaradawi, whose weekly Al Jazeera program Sharia and Life routinely drew an audience of tens of millions, was notorious for many things — not least fatwas approving Hamas suicide bombings as well as the killings of American soldiers and support personnel in Iraq.