Qatar Chari-tease: Suspicious financing to promote Brotherhood ideology, penetrate Europe

Nora Bandari

The Qatari regime has found working in the field of charitable work as the best way to penetrate Europe and spread through the continent. Doha’s best means for playing this role has been Qatar Charity, as this association finances Islamic centers, institutions and mosques as a cover to fund and support the Brotherhood and pervade European minds. Since Qatar Charity launched a branch in Britain in 2012, it has been managing suspicious financial transactions and activities under the cover of charitable work.

Qatar Papers

In April 2019, French writers Christian Chesnot and Georges Malbrunot published their book “Qatar Papers”, which uncovered secret documents about secret funds provided by Qatar Charity to support the Brotherhood in Europe and revealed that there are many activities carried out by Doha to promote the Brotherhood’s ideology in Europe.

The Qatar Foundation has also sought to spread the Brotherhood’s ideology by financing the establishment of many projects, including schools, universities, and mosques across Europe, in addition to some Brotherhood institutions that call for the creation of a parallel society in Europe governed by extremist religious laws.

According to the documents revealed in the book, Qatar Charity funded about 47 projects in Italy, followed by France with 22 projects, then Spain, and finally Germany with 10 projects, with the aim of infiltrating educational institutions and research centers. The Associated Press also revealed in June 2019 that Qatar Charity provided an estimated $33 million to Georgetown University in 2018 and $6.1 million to Texas A&M University in 2018, with the aim of spreading the Qatari-Brotherhood ideology.

Supporting Turkish ally

Hisham al-Najjar, a researcher specializing in political Islamist movements, told the Reference that Qatar Charity’s role in Europe is linked to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s project of establishing a new Ottoman Turkey in Europe. Erdogan is seeking to expand throughout the world in accordance with a map of influence that brings together Qatar, the Brotherhood and Erdogan’s Turkey.

Najjar noted that Qatar’s institutions and financial resources are used to finance all aspects of this project, whether by spending on the Brotherhood and its media and military arms in the Middle East, Africa, Asia and Europe, or by financing takfirist militias affiliated with ISIS and al-Qaeda.

According to Najjar, Erdogan relies heavily on Qatari funding for his brigades and cells active within European societies. Most of these cells are linked to Turkey’s National Intelligence Organization (MIT), and their mission is to create religious divisions within Europe, to strip Muslims in the West from their national affiliations, loyalty to their homeland, and respect for universal values ​​and principles, and shifting their loyalty to the new Ottoman Empire and the new caliph in Turkey.

Regarding the impact of the Turkish-Qatari project on Europe, Najjar explained that this is a soft invasion that will cause wide disruption to the structure of Western societies, stirring sectarian and ethnic strife and reigniting past conflicts and religious intolerance in Europe. This will lead to the resurrection of Christian counter-extremism and the spread of violent acts and racism against all Muslims in the West as a result of generalization in reaction to the acts of a few representing the Erdogan project.

Najjar pointed out that the Qatari leadership has become completely dependent on the Turkish president’s project and ambitions and therefore acts according to his plans and directives.