This is how Qatar Charity became a tool to finance Brotherhood groups and their projects
Day after day, the Qatari funding of Brotherhood organizations in a number of Arab and foreign countries has become a bright reality, in a way that these funds have become a source of anger in the Arab public opinion, which calls for opening judicial investigations on the parties that finance Brotherhood branches, associations and armed and terrorist factions, including Qatar.
The ICSR report revealed that Qatar has used Qatar Charity to fund at least 138 projects across Europe, many of which have been linked to the Brotherhood terrorist organization.
The 104-pages report, which includes a map of militant movements in Britain, was not the first to discuss Qatar Charity’s links to extremist organizations in Europe and elsewhere.
In September 2020, Sri Lanka declared Qatar Charity as a terrorist-financing entity, after criminal investigations targeted the activities of Save the Pearl organization, headed by lawyer Al-Hejaz Hezbollah, accused of involvement in terrorism crimes.
In April of that year, Hezbollah was also arrested by the Criminal Investigation Department under the Anti-Terrorism Act. Debani Minnick, representative of the Criminal Investigation Department, district judge of Fort Colombo, capital of Sri Lanka, said that the organization “Qatar Charity” was a terrorist-funded entity and that “Save the Pearl” was therefore under investigation for offenses related to receiving funds from terrorist organizations and money laundering.
A shocking report by Qatar from the International Center for the Study of Radicalization
The report of the International Center for the Study of Radicalization (ICSR) points to efforts to uncover Qatar’s financing of terrorism, most notably the book “Qatar Papers”, by French journalists Georges Malbrunot of Le Figaro newspaper and Christian Chino of France Inter radio.
Through official documents, the book monitors Qatari networks in France in particular and Europe in general, and the role of Qatar Charity, founded by Cheikha Moza, in financing extremism and terrorism in Europe and dozens of French cities, according to the book.
The book also addresses evidence of Doha’s funding of religious institutions, projects, and centers linked to the Muslim Brotherhood terrorist organization in Europe, as well as the monitoring of donations to some institutions and associations such as the European Institute for Humanities and the Union of Islamic Organizations in France, which later turned into “France’s Muslims” and represents the official wing of the Brotherhood in the country.
The book stressed that Qatari financing is not done through illegal operations, but uses twisted and complicated methods that are difficult to track, especially that the funded institutions are working to launder these funds through exchange companies, real estate companies and educational institutions. The two French journalists revealed that these funds amounted to more than 40 million euros a year inside France alone.
Qatar Charity: Arm of Extremism and Terrorism
The Qatar Charity is the Doha Curtain charity that operates in conflict zones in the Middle East, between Libya, Yemen, Syria and Tunisia, where it directly funds the organization called the Tunisia Charity, which is building a terrorist camp in Manzeh al-Nour, on the Tunisian coast.
According to a number of foreign reports and widespread newspaper investigations, Qatar Charity is directly involved in the electoral process in Tunisia, supporting specific individuals campaigns in 2011, 2014, and 2019, and providing job opportunities for Brotherhood members, especially among potential teachers who were in prison.
The Qatari organization is also involved in supporting certain militias inside Libya, including the Deterrence Militia, which self-censors community behavior, especially “women’s clothing,” in order to establish a certain social pattern. Qatar Charity is also present in the camps for young people wishing to migrate illegally on the Libyan and Tunisian coasts, as part of the plans to prepare so-called “lone wolves” to carry out terrorist operations in the West.
Qatar Charity network in France and Germany
A network of Qatar Charity-affiliated associations is proliferating in France and Germany, working among impoverished youth to recruit them in the future. The French government has warned of the seriousness of these measures and has opened an investigation into, for example, the activities and financing of halal meat shops and the sale of Afghan books, perfumes and fabrics, as well as the financing of banned imams in France.
Qatar continues to fund terrorism by providing funds and large sums to extremist groups through a network of charities, social and religious associations and European banks that control them.
Despite Qatar’s attempts to deny funding to extremist Muslim Brotherhood organizations, there has been confirmation by Western diplomats that Doha is funding extremists, and signs that its support for the Brotherhood, which is designated a terrorist organization in many Arab countries and the world, is no longer hidden.
