Judea Pearl, the father of murdered WSJ reporter Daniel Pearl writes on Al Jazeera English. The thrust of his piece is an attack on Al Jaz Arabic for airing Sunni cleric Sheikh Youssef El-Qaradawi‘s “Sharia and Life” programme.

He uses this forum to preach his new morality to millions of Arabic-speaking viewers, including Hamas operatives, al-Qaida recruits, schoolteachers and impressionable Muslim youths. “We have the ‘children bomb,’ and these human bombs must continue until liberation,” he told his audience in 2002.

Yes, Qaradawi is a kind of Arabic Rush Limbaugh.

But unfortunately – unlike the US radio host – people take the Sheikh seriously. He’s currently leading the charge for a pan-regional Sunni-Shi’a civil war, asking Kurds to pitch in with Sunnis, and other GCC states to pitch in to Iraq on their behalf. As Iraq burns, Qaradawi is standing by with the kerosene hose…now that Al Jaz should be worried about.