Qatar and American universities: Syndrome of influence and illegal money

Nahla Abdel Moneim

Qatar strives through the huge financial wealth it has been granted to control big powers and spread its influence within societies; to adapt generations of generations in accordance with its own agenda, which is evident in its fiscal policy towards American universities and educational institutions.

The Clarion Project website, which specializes in monitoring the news of extremist movements, has published several documents revealing the huge sums of money that the Gulf emirate is providing as donations to American universities, pointing out that this is an intervention and manipulation of the campus from a state that sponsors terrorism and extremist groups.

The American Campus

Qatar has donated millions of dollars to the Universities of Arizona, Cambridge, Cornell, Harvard, John Hopkins, New York, North Western, Oregon State and Beardo in Indiana, Rice and other universities such as Texas, Northern California and Michigan.

These donations have been generously delivered more than once a year since 2012 and continue to date. The site is valued at $1.5 billion. Qatar is spending the money through Qatar Foundation, which claims to be a non-profit organization. It was founded in 1995 and is spent on internal and external institutes and research centers as well as other projects as a community role that contains many doubts and ambitions.

Qatar Foundation, which is headed by Sheikha Moza bint Nasser, the mother of Qatar’s Prince Tamim bin Hamad in January 2019, has pledged to raise its investments in the United States to $45 billion.

Research Centers

This is particularly disturbing to the American website, which says that the institution funds research and advocacy centers headed by Yusuf al-Qaradawi, the spiritual leader of the Muslim Brotherhood, such as the Al-Qaradawi Research Center. He believes that the organization allocates its money to sponsor terrorism and can influence the results of its research and studies through their own research centers.

In addition, Qatar uses its community institutions to finance its own research centers in the United States, such as the International Institute for Islamic Thought, founded in 1981 in Washington, DC, and supervised by Brotherhood advocates.

Internal universities

In addition to its investments in universities in the United States, Qatar also sponsors several branches of educational institutions within its territory. To serve this purpose, the emirate established the Education City in Doha in 2003.

The city has branches for universities such as Virginia Commonwealth, Cornell, Texas, Georgetown, Carnegie and other educational institutions. Qatar Foundation also funds these internal branches, with funding of $320 million annually, according to a report in the Washington Post in 2015 on how it will maintain American universities on their values ​​and constants in a society accused of obtaining the World Cup bribes in addition to supporting terrorism.

Factors and objectives

Certainly, the process of spending money, especially by countries, is not subject to naivete or to the gains of favors or other humanitarian goals, but it is “money paid to recover”, albeit after a long time.

In this regard, the Middle East Media Research Center presented a research paper on the care of Yusuf Al-Qaradawi for the city of education and its role in the curricula offered by American universities and the troubled identities of graduates of these universities.

The study said that Qaradawi’s control of the city illustrates the role of the state and the Brotherhood in that institution and clearly reveals Qatar’s recruitment of funds to control the educational process in the United States and within branches in the emirate.