• President Mubarak … I advise you to depart from Egypt … There is no other solution to this problem but for Mubarak to go.
• Influential Arab cleric Yusuf al-Qaradawi • Claiming that Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak is “blind, deaf and dumb” to criticisms about his leadership. Al-Qaradawi, a Sunni Muslim cleric who holds dual nationalities in Egypt and Qatar, says Mubarak should follow in the footsteps of Ben Ali in Tunisia: “There is no staying longer, Mubarak, I advise you (to learn) the lesson of Zine El Abidine Ben Ali,” he said. While he supports the protesters, he says that they “must come through peaceful means” that don’t attack state institutions. The cleric, by the way, is seen as controversial in much of the world for his sometimes-radical views, and while he’s famous in the Middle East, the U.S. and Britain refuse to grant him visas to enter their countries. source

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