The sad part is that "Yusuf Al Qaradawi enjoys unparalleled respect and influence throughout the Muslim world" is really close enough to the truth to make it entirely justifiable as a statement by an organization as impossibly placed as the MCB (or CAIR). The man is an idiot, but an influential one. Still, I don't think releasing such statements or sponsoring him for a visum is irreconcileable with taking a pro-peace and anti-violence stance, as such. If you're going to limit your selection of invited speakers or guests to those Arab Muslims who publicly and invariably condemn Hamas and Hizbullah and defend Israel, well, your list is going to be very, very short and you're making yourself largely irrelevant at least among the people you're supposed to represent (even if you become a darling of some other groups in the process). That doesn't have that much to do with religion and all the more with nationalism and politics. If you think political correctness in the west is stifling debate, you've clearly never taken a look at the Arab countries - except that their brand of political correctness has some very different dogmas and truths that must never be spoken than ours.