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Politics : Bush Administration's Media Manipulation--MediaGate? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: longnshort who wrote (6383)	3/28/2006 2:38:22 PM
From: Proud_Infidel	Respond to of 9838

Livingstone became involved in a major dispute with some who had previously supported him when he invited the respected Islamic scholar Yusuf al-Qaradawi to a conference on the wearing of the hijab by schoolgirls in July 2004. The conference was called following the French law on secularity and conspicuous religious symbols in schools, which particularly affected Muslim girls. Peter Tatchell, who had stood as an independent Livingstone supporter in the 2000 elections, strongly criticised the invitation because of opinions on al-Qaradawi's website supporting the death penalty for homosexuality[11] and the right of husbands to hit their wives. Livingstone defended the invite on grounds of Qaradawi's eminence as "one of the most authoritative Muslim scholars in the world today" en.wikipedia.org