Avoid Muslim Qatar
Qatari Textbooks Praise Jihad, Whitewash Hitler
FEB 18, 2026 2:00 PM
BY HUGH FITZGERALD
Qatar is the main state supporter of the terror group Hamas and of the
Muslim Brotherhood. Hamas’ senior leaders have long been provided with
luxurious and secure accommodations in Doha, from where they plot their
campaigns against Israel.
Qatar spends more on American institutions of higher education than any
other country, and its money pays for endowed chairs of Middle Eastern
and Islamic studies, and lecture series on the wickedness of the
“Zionist entity” and the sufferings the “Palestinians” have endured.
This tiny and very rich country been able to undermine Israel’s image
and to spread antisemitism throughout many of our most prestigious
universities.
In Qatar itself, antisemitic schoolbooks remain unrevised, and Qatari
children are raised on a steady diet of anti-Jewish hatred and praise
of terrorism. More on those schoolbooks can be found here: “Qatar’s
Children Still Study Antisemitic Textbooks That Whitewash Hitler,
Promote Violent Jihad, Study Finds,” by David Michael Swindle,
Algemeiner, February 16, 2026: Despite Qatari leaders’ rhetoric
seemingly promoting peace and opposing hate, the Middle Eastern country
continues to educate students with textbooks that celebrate terrorism,
hide the Holocaust, and demonize the Jewish people by affirming
longstanding antisemitic tropes, according to a new study.
The Institute for Monitoring Peace and Cultural Tolerance in School
Education (IMPACT-se), a nonprofit organization that analyzes
schoolbooks and curricula around the world, reviewed 52 textbooks
officially approved for the 2025-2026 State of Qatar national school
curriculum, in addition to checking them against previous editions for
potential revisions. The books covered topics ranging from social
studies, geography, and history to Islamic education, Arabic language,
and Arabic literature. IMPACT-se applied UNESCO-derived standards and
guidelines of peace and tolerance in education.
The researchers found that the same problems from the 2021-2022 school
year had not improved, as the textbooks “continue to reproduce
antisemitic narratives, religious intolerance toward non-Muslims, and
legitimization of violent jihad, all of which were documented in
IMPACT-se’s earlier reports.”
The antisemitic material includes promoting stereotypes of Jews as
arrogant liars obsessed with opposing Islam. The texts also cast Jews
as “fleeing in fear, spreading discord, breaching agreements,” and
possessing an “excessive attachment to material wealth, thereby
reinforcing an image of Jews as fundamentally untrustworthy.”
In historical recounts of the Arab-Israeli conflict, the textbooks
depict Jews as manipulating global affairs and deny Jewish historical
connections to the Land of Israel. Maps of the region describe the
borders of Mandatory Palestine, the name for the area from 1920-1948
when it was under British administration, as split between “Palestinian
territory” and “Israeli expansion.”
The textbooks for Qatari children also glorify violent jihad and death
in the name of Islam. They teach that students should “love jihad” and
expect entry into paradise for those who choose martyrdom. These
instructions accompany demonizations of non-Muslims as “infidels,”
“pagans,” and “polytheists.” The textbooks offer little objective
information about other faiths. They also promote an Arab nationalist
ideology, oppose a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian
conflict, and describe Hamas terrorist attacks as “military operations.”
IMPACT-se researchers cite an Islamic education book for sixth graders as an example of the curriculum’s promotion of terrorism.
“An Islamic education lesson teaches that one of the ways to measure a
good Muslim woman is to raise children to sacrifice their lives, in
what is understood to be violent jihad,” the report states. “The
chapter about classical Islamic figure Nusaybah bint Ka’b praises the
fact that she raised her children ‘to love jihad,’ pointing out that
her three children later ‘died as martyrs for the sake of Allah
Almighty.’ The textbook authors describe this type of upbringing as
‘optimal.’”…
Transparency by American institutions of higher learning about foreign
funding, both with the government and with the American people, is
highly desirable, but it does little to end the influence of Qatari
money on those institutions. Perhaps our government could do something
much more effective, and ban American institutions from accepting
funding from Qatar or from any source that “promotes antisemitism and
terrorism” in its own schools, as that surely means that such a source
will do the same in the American programs it funds.
Qatar as Daddy Warbucks
JAN 14, 2026 2:00 PM
BY HUGH FITZGERALD
Fabulously rich from the sale of its natural gas — it has the third
largest gas reserves in the world, after Russia and Iran — the Emirate
of Qatar has perfected the art of winning influence through what is
demurely called “soft power,” that is, the kind of power that not
armies, but only money can buy. Since 2012, Qatar has spent $72 million
for Washington lobbyists, which is more than any other country has
spent in that time, in order to help make its case in the corridors of
Congressional power. When some Congressmen accuse Qatar of “harboring
senior officials of Hamas,” which it does, Qatar rolls out other
congressmen, who have received briefings and money from those K Street
lobbyists, who remind their colleagues that Qatar allows the United
States to maintain its largest military base in the Middle East — the
Al-Udeid Airbase — and invests so very much in American securities.
Shouldn’t those facts outweigh all other considerations?
Qatari money also helps to mold young American minds in those
universities that Doha chooses to support quite extravagantly. The
money comes with strings attached, of course. Any sums from Qatar given
to universities go to support faculty members who are sympathetic to
the Emirate itself, or to “Palestine,” or to the “religion of peace.”
Qatari money goes to pay the salaries of those teaching courses about
“the faith of Islam,” or the political evolution of the Gulf states, or
on “Al-Andalus and the Birth of ‘Convivencia,’” or — absolutely de
rigueur — a course on the “Israel-Palestine conflict,” and woe betide
any faculty member who, having received Qatari support (as by holding a
chair that Doha has endowed), dares in his lectures to be less than
admiring of Islam, the “religion of peace,” or even worse, to be even
slightly understanding of the Jewish state. The students’ minds are
thus filled with the belief that Islam is quite admirable and only
“Islamophobia” explains the reluctance of some in the West to be
enthusiastic about the adherents of that religion. And those students
are provided with a view of a long-suffering “Palestine” and a
preternaturally wicked Israel that the ghost of Edward Said could not
have bettered.
More on deep-pocketed Qatar and how it uses its money to influence
Americans can be found here: “US Education Department’s New Database
Reveals Qatar Ranks as Top Foreign Funder of American Universities,” by
Corey Walker, Algemeiner, January 8, 2026: Qatar is the single largest
foreign source of funding to American colleges and universities,
according to a newly launched public database from the US Department of
Education that reveals the scope of overseas influence in US higher
education.
The federal dashboard shows Qatar has provided $6.6 billion in gifts
and contracts to US universities, more than any other foreign
government or entity, outpacing the next highest contributions from
Germany ($4.4 billion), England ($4.3 billion), China ($4.1 billion),
Canada ($4 billion), and Saudi Arabia ($3.9 billion).
Of the schools that received money from Qatar, Cornell University
topped the list with $2.3 billion, followed by Carnegie Mellon
University ($1 billion), Texas A&M University ($992.8 million), and
Georgetown University ($971.1 million).
It would be fascinating to know what courses on Islam and the Middle
East have been or are now being taught at those four universities, and
about the publications of the professors teaching them. Perhaps AIPAC
would like to look into this.
The newly publicized figures come as universities nationwide face
heightened scrutiny over campus antisemitism, anti-Israel activism, and
academic priorities, prompting renewed concerns about foreign influence
on American campuses.
US Education Secretary Linda McMahon unveiled the Foreign Gift and
Contract transparency portal this week, saying the tool gives
taxpayers, lawmakers, and students a clearer view of how billions of
dollars from abroad flow into US universities. Under Section 117 of the
Higher Education Act, federally funded institutions are legally
required to disclose gifts and contracts from foreign sources worth
$250,000 or more annually….
This “Foreign Gift and Contract transparency portal” has long been
needed. Now universities are required to list all gifts and contracts
worth more than $250,000 that they receive from foreign sources — both
individuals and institutions. And those lists are now open to everyone.
Let’s all have a look about where Qatar is spending its money, and how
much, and for what obvious purposes? Reporters for Fox News, do your
stuff.
How have those elite universities handled antisemitism? They haven’t.
They’ve let it flourish, for the administrators at these places are
either too scared, or too indifferent, to do anything about the
antisemitic brownshirts on campus calling for Israel to disappear, to
be replaced by a 23rd Arab state (“from the river to the sea, Palestine
will be free”), and for Jews to be killed worldwide (“globalize the
Intifada”). Now the Trump administration has been cutting government
money to the offending universities, sometimes amounting to billions of
dollars, by cancelling research contracts. As a result, those
institutions have suddenly discovered that yes, after all, there are
some things they can do to discourage antisemitism on their campuses.
“And please, President Trump, renew those contracts. We promise not to
be so indifferent to antisemitism ever again.”
Now let’s count the ways, beyond those sums provided to universities,
that Qatar can spend its money to win friends. It could agree to invest
what for Doha would be a most modest sum — a few hundred million
dollars is nothing to the Al-Thani family — in your company, or in your
hotel, or in your golf course. You need investors for your movie? No
problem. And by the way, for your next film why not tell the story of
the Nakhba that too few Americans know about. We’ll finance the whole
thing.
Qatar has spent $20 billion on American universities. You can imagine
on what that largesse was lavished. Chairs for tenured professors in
the Middle East Studies Department. One earmarked for a specialist in
“Palestinian studies,” another on “Qatari studies.” In the History
Department, a professor to be hired whose field of study is the
“History of Medieval and Early Modern Palestine.” And another
professor, also with tenure and an endowed chair, who teaches a course
on “What The West Owes To Islam.” And of course, in the graduate
program in architecture, a new professor will be hired, on Qatar’s
request, who has just published a coffee-table book, with lots of
photographs of Cordoba, Seville, and Granada, entitled simply
“Al-Andalus.” You get the picture.
Does University X need a new extension built to its current library
building? Does University Y need a new sports stadium? Does University
Z need a half-dozen newly-endowed chairs? Or a new dormitory? Qatar is
ready to oblige. Perhaps here and there — very much here and there —
some of these places will bear the names of the Al-Thani family and of
the country that family owns.
And of course, Qatar will be prepared to donate half the cost — $200
million — of the new ballroom that will replace what was formerly the
West Wing of the White House. Everyone who passes into that vast
ballroom — the movers and shakers of America — will see on the wall a
list of the donors who made Trump’s dream come true, and the Al-Thani
Family of Qatar will lead all the rest.
As for the lobbyists on K Street, Qatar has dozens of its firms working
full time, including the one that Tim Mynett, the husband of Ilhan
Omar, owns, to make the case that Qatar, despite its care and feeding
of Hamas leaders, has been a friend indeed to the U.S.A. Just look at
all those young Qataris, so many of them members of the Al-Thani
family, who are going to school at Northwestern, where they hope to
make a deep impression on their American classmates. Just like the deep
impression Qatari money has made in every aspect of American life.
Qatar is an Islamic Terrorist State
SEP 12, 2025
BY DANIEL GREENFIELD
Why are Hamas leaders in Qatar? Same reason the mastermind of 9/11 was.
Why are Hamas leaders in Qatar? Same reason Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the
mastermind of 9/11, was there before a member of the Qatari royal
family helped him escape ahead of the FBI coming in to get him.
American officials say the FBI and CIA just missed capturing the al
Qaeda leader believed to have organized the 9/11 attacks — and now
believed to be planning a new attack against Americans — because it
appears he was protected and tipped off by a member of the royal family
in Qatar, Abdullah Bin Khalid al-Thani.
In 1996, the FBI tracked Mohammed, under indictment on charges of
terrorism, to Qatar’s capital city, Doha, and was within hours of
capturing him.
“We had located Khalid Sheikh,” Cloonan told ABCNEWS. “We were prepared to fly the plane in and to take him out.”
But Cloonan says Mohammed was tipped off shortly after Qatar officials were told of the plan and headed for the airport.
Same reason Taliban leaders were there. Or how the Qataris got our people killed in Benghazi.
Qatar made itself into a hub for the Muslim Brotherhood, the group
behind Hamas and Al Qaeda, and various Islamist operations around the
world.
It’s an enemy of America, Israel and the entire civilized world, but it
also engages in bribery on a global scale at almost unthinkable levels,
it deploys a worldwide propaganda machine, Al Jazeera, and despite
being a tiny slave state with a small population, punches far above its
weight.
We should not be in Qatar. And Qatar should not be in America.
Universities are selling out to Qatar
May 18, 2025
By Mitchell Bard
Algemeiner
If you ever doubted that universities care more about money than
principles, look no further than their willingness to accept donations
from Qatar.
For those unaware, Qatar is a hereditary autocracy that bans political
parties, criminalizes dissent, censors the press and has a long record
of human-rights abuses, including labor exploitation and human
trafficking. Its state-run media network, Al Jazeera, is the principal
media source of anti-Israel propaganda in the Middle East. Qatar has
also long funded and hosted terrorist groups that are sworn enemies of
the West, including the Muslim Brotherhood, Hamas, Al-Qaeda, the
Taliban and ISIS.
“Qatar’s ideological alignment directly contradicts the values of
Western nations that recognize these groups as terrorist
organizations,” observed Michael Milshtein of the Moshe Dayan Center
for Middle Eastern and African Studies. Yet that has not stopped
American universities from cozying up to Qatar for cash.
Doha has poured nearly $6 billion into American universities since
1981, making it the largest Arab donor in US higher education. In just
one year, between 2023 and 2024, it donated $527 million. Much of this
money is funneled through the Qatar Foundation, chaired by Sheikha Moza
bint Nasser, mother of the current emir and wife of the former one. In
the words of its founders, the foundation exists to “realize their
ambitions for the future of Qatar.”
“Qatar’s goal is not to promote antisemitic or pro-Palestinian
messages,” Gulf expert Ariel Admoni says, “but antisemitism and
pro-Palestinian sentiments are byproducts of policies convenient for
them.”
He added that “in Western countries, particularly within educated
circles, the pro-Palestinian struggle is perceived as a ‘convenient’
cause. Consequently, from the Qatari perspective, this portrayal
positions them favorably on what they consider to be the right side of
public opinion, especially among the youth.”
Qatar has made 1,143 donations to 63 American universities. In the US
Department of Education (DoE) database, only 101—just 9%—disclose what
the money was used for.
Cornell University is the biggest beneficiary, receiving more than $2.1
billion. In 2001, it launched the Weill Medical College in Qatar, with
the emirate pledging $750 million in 11 years, including undisclosed
“fees” to Cornell. According to a 2024 report from the Institute for
the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy (ISGAP), Cornell failed to
report $1.4 billion of this funding (out of $3 billion in unreported
contributions for campuses in Qatar).
More than $1.2 billion in Qatar funding previously attributed to
Northwestern and Georgetown universities was also inexplicably deleted
from the February 2024 DoE report.
Qatar also attempts to exert influence through donations to prestigious
university centers. It has contributed, for example, to the James A.
Baker III Institute for Public Policy at Rice University in Texas,
which was also supported at one point by the Al Jazeera Media Network
of Qatar. Diplomats can also get an education from Georgetown
University in Qatar, initially called the Georgetown University School
of Foreign Service in Qatar. The Qatar Foundation collaborated with the
Institute for Global Law and Policy at Harvard Law School to establish
a graduate law school at Hamad Bin Khalifa University in Doha. Harvard
received a $1 million donation from Qatar in 2024, but no further
details were provided.
Academic freedom suffers when oppressive regimes control the purse
strings. Northwestern’s campus in Doha censored a Lebanese band with a
gay lead singer. A professor was reportedly dismissed for expressing
pro-Israel views. These are not isolated incidents; they are symptoms
of a deeper rot. Money from autocratic regimes inevitably comes with
strings, spoken or unspoken. When universities accept these funds, they
assume those strings.
In a rare act of financial sacrifice, Texas A&M announced that it
would close its program in Qatar after 21 years, just three years after
renewing a 10-year contract. To that point, the DoE recorded seven
contributions worth almost $105 million. According to The Washington
Post, the previous contract was worth more than $750 million, so the
decision was costly. The public reason given was regional instability
and changing institutional priorities; however, some believed it was
related to a report by ISGAP raising concerns about Qatari access to
nuclear-energy research. The university claimed this was misinformation
and had no bearing on the decision to leave Qatar.
The Department of Education under the first Trump administration warned
that Qatar, along with China, Russia and Saudi Arabia, was “targeting
their investments to project soft power, steal sensitive and
proprietary research, and spread propaganda.” The hope was that the
administration would take measures to prevent universities from taking
Qatari cash, or at least demand transparency and accountability.
But what chance is there of that now that we know Trump is prepared to
accept a $400 million airplane from the emirate that is seen by many as
a bribe?
American universities are supposed to stand for truth, freedom and
critical inquiry. Many, however, are willing to trade those values for
petrodollars from a regime that criminalizes dissent, bankrolls terror
and censors scholars. It’s not just a betrayal of academic integrity.
It’s a betrayal of the very ideals that higher education is meant to
uphold.
‘Establish
Islamic Caliphate, build Europe’s largest mosque’, claims European
leader about this Muslim nation, not Saudi Arabia, UAE, it is…
Project to implement Islamic Caliphate.
December 24, 2024
India.com
By Tahir Qureshi
Lisbon: The Gulf Muslim country, which earns a lot of money from oil
and gas, is engaged in a project to implement the Islamic Caliphate.
For this, it is spending money with an open hand. This claim was made
by former Portuguese ambassador to Qatar and politician António Tânger
Corrêa. He said Qatar is using billions of dollars from gas exports to
help it achieve its dream of re-establishing the caliphate.
António Tânger Corrêa said that we should not hold the Football World
Cup and other such big events in Qatar. These events provide Qatar with
an international platform from which to elevate its agenda.
“When they decided to stop the bullfight in Barcelona, Qatar wanted to
buy the bullfight ground and build the largest mosque in Europe in its
place”, he claims.
The Portuguese politician claimed that Qatar dreams of establishing the caliphate once again.
“I know what I’m saying. I have been in Qatar. I have served there as an ambassador”.
“He claimed that Qatar has a very bad system. There is a lot of
strictness on the labourers working there. Passports and other things
are taken from them. They are forced to live in poor conditions. They
act like modern slaves,” said Correa….
'Not welcome here': Qatar tells Hamas to leave after US pressure, Hamas official denies report
Sources told KAN that this development has been underway in recent days, allegedly due to US pressure.
The Jerusalem Post
NOVEMBER 8, 2024
Qatar has agreed to remove Hamas from its territory after Hamas refused
to conduct genuine hostage, ceasefire negotiations, an American source
told Israeli state broadcaster, KAN on Saturday morning.
This latest update follows a senior American administration official
telling Reuters on Friday that the US has told Qatar that the presence
of Hamas in Doha is no longer acceptable in the weeks since the
Palestinian terror group rejected the latest proposal to achieve a
ceasefire and a hostage deal.
"After rejecting repeated proposals to release hostages, its leaders
should no longer be welcome in the capitals of any American partner. We
made that clear to Qatar following Hamas's rejection weeks ago of
another hostage release proposal," the official said, speaking on the
condition of anonymity.
Qatar then made the demand to Hamas leaders about 10 days ago, the
official said. Washington has been in touch with Qatar over when to
close the political office of Hamas, and it told Doha that now was the
time following the group's rejection of the recent proposal.
KAN had reported on Friday that Qatar told the terrorist group Hamas,
"You are not welcome here," citing a source familiar with the matter.
According to the KAN report, Qatar had previously explained that
Hamas's leadership in the country was meant to facilitate dialogue
during hostage negotiation efforts.
Egyptian sources told the Lebanese newspaper Al-Akhbar that direct
talks with senior Hamas officials are ongoing, with recent talks taking
place on November 5, the day of the US elections.
“Hamas is a terrorist group that has killed Americans and continues to
hold Americans hostage,” a senior US administration official told CNN.
“After rejecting repeated proposals to release hostages, its leaders
should no longer be welcome in the capitals of any American partner.”
Three Hamas officials denied Qatar had told Hamas leaders they were no
longer welcome in the country. Another Hamas official, cited by Army
Radio, said that Qatar "has no plans to expel the leaders from Doha"
and that "the Israeli reports are completely baseless."
Doha under fire for training Hamas terrorists
US expert urges ‘designation of Qatar as state sponsor of terrorism.’
By BENJAMIN WEINTHAL
FEBRUARY 23, 2024
The Jerusalem Post
A shocking new report by the Middle East Media Research Institute
revealed that Qatar’s authoritarian state trained Hamas operatives at
the country’s police college as recently as 2023.
According to the early February MEMRI report, “Qatar – which is known
for supporting Hamas, financing its military activity and sheltering
its leaders, and for extending media support to Hamas by means of its
Al-Jazeera channel – also trained, in its Police College in Al-Rayyan,
officers from Hamas' Interior and National Security Ministry, which is
part of Hamas' governing authorities in the Gaza Strip.”
An IDF spokesperson told the Post that “The IDF does not comment about
issues with Qatar and other foreign states. It is a very sensitive
issue.” The IDF referred the Post to the foreign ministry.
Qatar is currently functioning as a mediator in an effort to secure the
release of the over 130 hostages held by Hamas in Qatar. Israeli
officials and MKs have been largely reluctant to comment on the Qatari
regime’s role in funneling over $2 billion into Hamas’ coffers over the
last ten years due to the hostage release talks.
The training of Hamas operatives in Qatar took place long after Hamas
was designated a foreign terrorist organization by the US and the
European Union.
MEMRI wrote “Hamas officers were routinely sent to train at this
college, which recently produced its sixth class of graduates, and were
received with great honor upon their return to the Gaza Strip.”
Rich Goldberg, a member of the National Security Council during
the Trump administration, told the Jerusalem Post ”This is certainly
further evidence to support a designation of Qatar as a state sponsor
of terrorism.” Goldberg testified in Congress in late October about
Qatar’s alleged role in sponsoring Islamist terrorism.
Yigal Carmon, the president and founder of MEMRI, told the Post that "Qatar is Hamas and Hamas is Qatar.”
Hamas Political Bureau head Isma'il Haniya, who celebrated the October
7 massacre of 1,200 people in southern Israel and lives in Qatar,
frequently met with the Hamas officers and praised them with
certificates of appreciation.
Haniya said that the Qatar police college played a "significant role"
in strengthening the police of the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip. He
thanked Qatari Emir Tamim bin Hamad Aal Thani for his work on behalf of
Palestine.
A Hamas Interior Ministry spokesman thanked Qatar for helping the
ministry "to develop its personnel and give them unique skills and
expertise."
MEMRI disclosed that "Cadet Ahmad Jamil Nasrallah from the Gaza Strip,
who was sent to the Qatar Police College by the Interior and National
Security Ministry, received the highest grade among the cadets sent to
the college by Arab countries. This morning [February 2, 2023].”
Qatar’s Emir congratulated Nasrallah.
Hamas’ Interior Ministry sent “several students of the Ribat University
College (which trains members of Hamas' security apparatuses) every
year to acquire such a degree at the Qatar Police College,” noted MEMRI.
Jerusalem Deputy Mayor, Fleur Hassan-Nahoum, told the Post that “Qatar
hosts Hamas leaders and facilitates its financing. We know Hamas was
trained by the Islamic republic of Iran and so this new revelation
about Qatar is hardly surprising. The free world should show zero
tolerance for terrorist funders and sympathizers. Today its Hamas and
tomorrow it will be home grown Jihadi terrorism in the West.”
MEMRI first located and translated the jaw-dropping reports about the
Qatar-Hamas alliance in training Hamas operatives. According to the
Hamas website, on February 7, 2023:"Today… brother Isma'il Haniya, the
head of Hamas' political bureau, honored Officer Ahmad Nasrallah from
the Gaza Strip, who had been sent by the Interior and National Security
Ministry to [attend] the Qatar Police College.”
MEMRI posted a photograph of Undersecretary of Hamas' Interior
Ministry,General Nasser Maslah, presenting a certificate of
appreciation to officer Nasrallah from March, 2023.
Hamas’ Interior Ministry also sent Muhammad Abu Rizq to the Qatar
Police College. He graduated in 2022.Accofrding to the Hamas website,
“The Honorable Emir Tamim bin Hamad bin Khalifa Aal Thani honored cadet
Abu Rizq at the graduation ceremony of the Qatar Police College's
fourth graduating class.”
MEMRI wrote Hamas Interior Ministry spokesman Iyad Al-Buzom tweeted
that day: "We congratulate the cadet Muhammad Ahmad Abu Rizq, of the
Gaza Interior Ministry, for achieving the highest grade among the
cadets sent to the Qatar Police College by the Arab countries, and for
being honored by the Qatari Emir… We thank the Qatari Interior Ministry
for giving our cadets the opportunity to attend the Qatar Police
College, which helps the Gaza Interior Ministry develop its personnel
and give them unique skills and expertise.”
Hamas’ website reported on January 15, 2022 that "Hamas Political
Bureau Head Isma'il Haniya honored Officer Muhammad Ahmad Muhammad Abu
Rizq, from the Gaza Strip.” MEMRI showed a photograph of Haniya
presenting Abu Rizq with a certificate of appreciation.
In 2021, Haniya met with a group of Gazan cadets attending the
Qatar Police College. Hamas’ outlet Al-Risalah reported that Haniya
praised the cadets' "excellent performance" and "warmly thanked
His Excellency, the Honorable Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Aal Thani, the
Emir of the sister-country Qatar, as well as his government and the
honorable and generous Qatari people, for [the efforts they] invest in
serving our [Palestinian] homeland, our people and the Palestinian
cause in international forums."
Haniya also congratulated Officer Husam Abu Shamala, a graduate of the Qatari program.
MEMRI also revealed that, in February, 2021, Husam Fathi Abu Shamala
returned to Khan Younis as a graduate of the police college after
spending five years in Qatar.
It is unclear how many Hamas operatives Qatar trained. Multiple Post
press queries to Qatar’s embassies in Washington and London went
unanswered.
Qatar is facing intense anger from a growing number of US lawmakers for
its financial aid to Hamas and its reported espionage operation
targeting opponents of Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood.
The AP and Fox News Digital reported that Qatar’s regime hired former
CIA officer, Kevin Chalker, and his company, Global Risk Advisors, to
spy on Senator Ted Cruz (R-Texas), Senator Tom Cotton (R-Arkansas) ,and
Congressman Mario Diaz-Balart (R-Fla), as well as former California
Republican Congressman Ed Royce.
In January, Qatar denied on its X account, formerly known as Twitter,
the allegation that it hired Chalker’s firm to discredit US
elected officials as part of a vast surveillance operation titled
“Project ENDGAME.”
Chalker’s lawyer, Kevin Carroll, told Fox News "Mr. Chalker has a
long-standing record of service to the United States and any
allegations of wrongdoing—much less defamatory allegations of criminal
wrongdoing—by him or GRA are just false.”
When the Post asked Carroll and Chalker if GRA or Chalker played a role
in training Hamas operatives in Qatar, Carroll and Chalker refused to
comment. Numerous Post press queries were sent to GRA, Carroll
and Qrypt, Chalker’s new company.
The Post also asked Chalker if he and GRA view Hamas as a terrorist organization. Chalker declined to comment.
Protests have unfolded against Qatar’s embassy in Washington and its
hotel in Beverly Hills, the Maybourne, due to the Gulf Country’s
financial support for Hamas and its failure to secure the freedom of
the remaining hostages.
Rabbi Pini Dunner, from The Beverly Hills Synagogue, along with the
organization, Rabbis United, are slated to protest on Monday against
“Qatar-funded Hamas terrorism” in front of Qatar’s consulate in Beverly
Hills. The organizers are also demanding “the release of the hostages.”
Rabbi Abraham Cooper, the associate dean of the Simon Wiesenthal
Center, is slated to speak at the 12:45 PM rally.
Qatar has lashed out at American Jews and Congressional representatives
who demonstrated in front of their Washington embassy calling for Doha
to pressure Hamas to release the hostages.
Qatar: Gunmen kill 29 dogs sparking outrage on social media
July 21, 2022 at 12:50 pm
Published in: Middle East, News, Qatar
A group of armed men stormed a secure
facility in Qatar used to feed and shelter stray dogs, killing 29 of
them and injuring others over claims that one of them had bitten one of
the men's children.
According to the Independent, the
unidentified gunmen threatened security guards with weapons before
entering a secure factory area, where the stray dogs are looked by the
community. The assailants are then thought to have shot 29 dogs,
including puppies, leaving others badly injured.
Speaking to the Independent, a source
described the incident as "horrific" with people running for cover as
the group of men shot at the defenceless animals. The source added that
after the shootings, a number of animals have still not been found, and
locals fear they are hiding, possibly with terrible injuries.
The incident on 10 July was confirmed
on social media by the Doha-based rescue charity PAWS Rescue Qatar, who
mentioned that the group turned up on the first day of Eid.
"The security team tried to stop the
men from shooting a group of beautiful friendly neutered dogs, but they
realised that they were also putting themselves in danger also," the
organisation stated, adding that the animals posed no threat to anyone
and were well looked after. One puppy is fighting to survive under a
vet's care.
The charity also questioned why there
wasn't stricter gun controls in the Gulf state: "Why can civilians own
guns and be allowed to use them as they wish? Why are there no stricter
regulations?"
"If these monsters can kill so easily and threaten men what will they do next."
The announcement invoked an angry response by social media user who condemned the killings.
"This is barbaric," one user wrote. "I am genuinely shocked and heartbroken," wrote another.
"Very disappointed Qatar! The Gulf
region must start to evolve on such matters – this is inexcusable! Poor
babies," commented another.
In 2021, AFP reported that there has
been an uptick in animal abuse in Qatar, particularly among strays and
abandoned animals left behind by departing expatriates. The number of
strays in the country had seen a surge as coronavirus lockdown
restrictions were lifted.
Also last year, the government
started a new initiative called Rifq, or Kindness, where stray dogs are
captured, vaccinated, neutered and rehabilitated before then being put
up for adoption.
Despite a 2004 law criminalising
mistreatment of animals, law enforcement is said to be inconsistent.
One Qatari animal rescuer was quoted in a report by Doha News last year
as saying "There is a law against torturing animals, but it's just a
1,000 riyal fine, so it is not really a deterrent".
According to Qatari law, in order to
own a firearm, you must obtain a licence from the Ministry of Interior
(MOI), however you have to be over the age of 21 and not have a
criminal record. Even with a license, you aren't allowed to brandish
your gun in public.
Qatar funds extremists in Europe through Qatar Charity Foundation
MAY 18, 2020
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Qatar funds extremists in Europe through Qatar Charity Foundation
The New York Times reports showed
that; Qatar sends its funds through “Ahmed Al Hammadi” the official of
the Qatar Charity Foundation. In addition, the system grants a
diplomatic passport for Al Hammadi to facilitate his suspicious
movements; and coordination for implementing Tamim’s extremist agendas.
Also,recently It provides with 71 million Euros to deliver it to the
Brotherhood leaders in Europe under a charitable cover.
The “New York Times” newspaper
monitored the facts and details of the plans of the Qatari authorities
with the participation of the Brotherhood leaders in Europe and the
participation of Doha in establishing over 90 centers for the terrorist
group in various European countries such as the “light” center in
France, while reports revealed that the Qatar Charity Foundation has
contributed to funding 140 projects in Europe valued at over 120
million euros, including 47 projects in Italy, 22 projects in France
and Spain, and 10 projects in Germany, and the British newspaper
“Times” confirmed that the Qatari “Rayyan” bank in Britain involves in
providing financial services to terrorist organizations in the Kingdom
United.
The Washington Free Beacon newspaper
said: Qatar is spending billions of dollars to penetrate the American
education system to improve the image of the Tamim regime and cover-up
its terrorist operations as part and propaganda in favor of Doha, where
legal lawyers have confirmed that it violates the US federal laws and
requires comprehensive investigations, to exceed Qatar donations of
over 1.5 billion To fund a set of educational initiatives at 28
American universities, making it one of the most widespread foreign
funders in the US educational system, raises doubts about the hidden
objectives of the Qatari government from these suspicious donations.
Qatar: Small, but dangerous
JUL 13, 2019 12:00 PM
BY RAMI DABBAS
Qatar has supported terrorism in
Iraq, Syria, Yemen, Libya, Tunisia and Egypt, and has spent huge
amounts of money in support and funding of jihad groups and terrorist
activities in Europe and elsewhere in the West. Qatar has supported
jihad terrorism in order to gain a foothold in some Arab and regional
countries, so as to counterbalance its small size and relative
weakness, as well as its lack of any political or military weight in
the Middle East. Indeed, Qatar has succeeded in penetrating some
countries by means of terrorism and aiding in the formation of armed
terrorist groups such as al Qaeda in Syria and Iraq, destabilizing
security. Qataris also purchase political power and influence,
furthering the Qatari dream of being a regional power, or at least
giving the illusion of being one.
The main supporter of the Muslim
Brotherhood in Egypt was Qatar. The resounding fall of the Muslim
Brotherhood in Egypt and the insistence of the Egyptian people on
getting rid of the Muslim Brotherhood regime has had a great impact on
the psyche of the Qatari regime. This, in turn, has had a very negative
effect on Qatar’s policies towards Egypt and other Arab countries that
have rejected the Muslim Brotherhood’s terrorism, and who have also
worked to eradicate it from that region and the world.
Qatar’s support for jihad terrorism
became a political ideology that seeped into Qatari military, security,
diplomatic and even charitable institutions. This has led to an
unprecedented increase in the spread of jihad terrorism in the region,
accompanied by the emergence of many jihad terrorist groups under the
support of Qatar, which provides them with funds and weapons. This has
prompted other Arab countries to boycott Qatar in order to stop its
terrorist activities, which have violated the security and stability of
the region.
Qatar-funded Muslim Brotherhood
activities in Europe, meanwhile, have promoted Europe’s Islamization.
Qatar’s solidarity with Iran and its coordination with the Islamic
Revolutionary Guards (which is designated as a terrorist organization
by the United States), the Quds Force, and the Iranian intelligence
have worked to undermine the security and stability of the neighboring
Arab countries in particular, and that of the entire world. Qatar’s
activities in support of terrorism in the Gulf region and worldwide
continue.
Qatar also supports the activities of
notorious anti-West activists Linda Sarsour and Ilhan Omar, for
example, and in an attempt to exploit poor youth, it recruits them for
terrorist organizations such as the Houthis in Yemen, Hezbollah, and
Iraqi sectarian jihadist militias, as well as for the remnants of the
Islamic State (ISIS), in order to destabilize national security,
especially in Egypt and Saudi Arabia, in retaliation for isolating
Qatar and its ally, the Muslim Brotherhood. Qatar has hampered progress
and development in the Arab anti-Muslim Brotherhood countries by
targeting security and stability, striking at their relations with the
world, and trying to target their interests and investments. This has
become one of the main reasons for Qatar’s support for jihad terrorism.
Qatar has become an ally to Iran and
its proxies, as well as of Erdogan’s Turkey and the Muslim Brotherhood.
Qatar has become a tool of Iranian terrorism and Turkish interventions,
and a financial tool for Turkey’s proxies in Europe. Because of its
alliances with Iran and Turkey, it has now become a dangerous security
risk for Arabic countries and the world in general.
Why is Qatar important to the United
States? Simply because of Al Udeid Air Base, which is one of the most
important US bases in the world. It is used by other US allies for
military operations, such as the United Kingdom and Australia during
the Gulf Wars and operations in Syria. Qatar is a tiny, rich state
which pays for US lobbyists and US politicians to influence some of the
policies of the US. For example: “Qatar has spent $16.3 million
lobbying the U.S. in 2017, compared to $4.2 million in 2016, in an
attempt to lobby about 250 people who can influence President Trump’s
foreign policy.”