Does Bin Jassim’s statements a discovery of the failure of the Brotherhood or an admission of Qatar’s sins?
The Brotherhood’s experience in the presidency resurfaced after a televised interview with the Kuwaiti newspaper Al-Qabas, with former Qatari Prime Minister Sheik Hamad bin Jassim Al-Thani, during which he expressed that the Brotherhood is fit to run a shop and not a state administration.
During the dialog, Bin Jassim said that he attended a meeting in the Qatari capital, Doha, between a group of Muslim Brotherhood members from Mohamed Morsi’s group and a delegation from the Americans, and he pointed out that he was shocked, because he saw that those who came (from the Brotherhood’s side) are fit to run a shop, not a state, and that President Mohamed Morsi was honest and sincere, but he was not intelligent, he is not fit to rule in Egypt, and he cannot engage in conflicts.
حمد بن جاسم في تقييم لفترة حكم مرسي في مصر: الأخوان “مساكين” ممكن تخليهم يديرون “دكان” وليس دولة! pic.twitter.com/3udCKxRGKV
— د. علي الجابري (@alialjabiri) March 4, 2022
Decades of illusion to destroy Arabs
For decades, Qatar made snakes from members of the Brotherhood that spread in many Arab countries, so they were well fed and financed, until the day came to give them the starting signal to blow poison and implement plans.
In history, relations between Qatar and the Brotherhood are not new. This emirate, still a British protectorate, began to welcome Egyptian Islamists in 1954 after the dramatic events in which they confronted Gamal Abdel Nasser.
The emirate received the second wave of Syria in 1982, after the failed Muslim Brotherhood rebellion in Hama. The third wave of the Muslim Brotherhood arrived in Qatar from North Africa (Tunisia, Algeria, and Libya) in the 1990s, after clashes between Islamists and their governments, but under different circumstances.
The fourth wave of Islamist exiles came from Saudi Arabia, which clamped down on Islamists after the September 11, 2001 attacks on Saudi territory in Khobar, Riyadh, and Dammam.
Turning the heart of the group from Egypt to Qatar
Encouraged by the Qatari regime, the Brotherhood transformed the “center of gravity” of the group, or the heart of the group and its spiritual capital, from Cairo to Doha. In return, Qatar pledged to encourage Brotherhood branches in the world with money, political support, and media coverage through its Al Jazeera platform, by helping the Brotherhood reach power through the rides of the democratic horse, and success in mass deployment and institutional penetration in order to bring it to the top of the power pyramid or the stage of empowerment, as stipulated in the Brotherhood’s literature.
During the Arab Spring in 2011, Qatar sought to ignite uprisings in Arab countries, notably Egypt, Tunisia, and Libya, to strengthen Brotherhood rule to implement its extremist agenda.
In 2014, during an interview with the BBC, Bin Jassim acknowledged Qatari support for the Brotherhood and Islamists in the Middle East, describing them as powerful and negligible and unignorably.
In 2016, he defended Qatari support for the Brotherhood, claiming that his country supported the choices of peoples, not particular groups.
Brotherhood Arabs’ Admission of Sin
The discovery that the Muslim Brotherhood is not suited to the management of the state by its original sponsor, Sheik Hamad bin Jassim, is an important development. It cuts the umbilical cord of the Muslim Brotherhood’s Qatar-led project, under the guise of an infamy for democracy, pluralism, and the defense of freedoms, and none of this, the Brotherhood has nothing to do with democracy, and democracy has nothing to do with Qatar.
This discovery, which remains undiscovered, makes Hamad bin Jassim’s statement more a recognition of sin than a new discovery or recognition of reality. Jassim, who moved the Muslim Brotherhood around the Arab world and became known as the godfather of the Arab Spring, now disdains and mocks them.
This acknowledgement also indicates that the Qatari project of subversion to tear the region’s states apart, return them to the Stone Age, and dismantle their national identities into sectarian and tribal identities is no longer valid. In the same recognition, Qatar should stop running behind the CIA-run centers of sabotage, which are called “research centers” and, in fact, are nothing more than garbage centers, for a racist culture and colonial ambitions.
