Cairo - Egypt, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain have collectively designated 69 individuals and 12 institutions that have financed terrorist organizations and received support from Qatar in the past. The list includes 26 Egyptian citizens living abroad. One of them is Yusuf al-Qaradawi . He was born on 9 September 1926 in Egypt. He lives in Doha, Qatar, and was the chairman of the International Union of Muslim Scholars. He has long had a prominent role within the intellectual leadership of the Muslim Brotherhood. Some of al-Qaradawi's views, such as his condoning of Palestinian suicide bombings against Israelis, have been controversial in the West. He was refused an entry visa to the United Kingdom in 2008, and barred from entering France in 2012. As of 2004, al-Qaradawi was a trustee of the Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies. Even fellow members of the International Union of Muslim Scholars such as Mohammad Salim Al-Awa criticized Qaradawi for promoting divisions among Muslims. In May 2013, al-Qaradawi denounced the Alawite sect, which many describe as an offshoot of Shia Islam and of which President Bashir al-Assad is a member, as "more infidel than Christians and Jews"
