Will Qatari funding become a source of new Brotherhood companies and institutions in Egypt?
The Brotherhood’s popular and political losses in Egypt and Tunisia have raised expectations that Qatari funding will flow to the Brotherhood.
A private Egyptian source told a newspaper in Doha, on condition of anonymity: “Qatar has huge losses of money and insufficient opportunities for the Brotherhood to invest in its current agenda in the Middle East.”
“The Muslim Brotherhood is hungry for money, and the existence of new Qatari plans will help the group’s youth regroup,” he said. “However, the deep-rooted disagreement among the group’s youth among some of its leaders could limit the attempts of the group to succeed in its attempts, in accordance with the sharp disagreements the group has experienced with fugitives based in Turkey and Qatar.”
At present, Qatari intelligence officials are drawing up a movement plan for some young members of the group who are not at the forefront of the scene to train them to attract Egyptian youth by providing them with job opportunities in charity work, and choosing some of them to establish small charities and private companies operating in Egypt in an attempt to penetrate the Brotherhood in Egypt once and for all.
“You are more likely to see Qatari money being invested behind the scenes in new Egyptian charities than ever before,” the source said.
Continued “I am sure that some Qatari companies will try to attract Egyptian youth, especially in job opportunities inside foreign companies funded by Qatar.”
Law No. 135 of 2021, on the dismissal of government employees by non-disciplinary means, and the Civil Service Law, which was approved by Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sissi, aims to cleanse Egyptian government institutions of “Muslim Brotherhood and destructive cells” in government sectors, who penetrated these sectors during the period of the Muslim Brotherhood rule and are still a source of panic within the Qatari administration, which is the reason for the recent Qatari moves.
It is not the first time that the group has penetrated through charities and companies run by young Egyptians with Qatari funds. In a study published by the International Center for the Study of Extremism at King’s College London, entitled “The Islamic Movement in Britain,” it pointed to the arrival of Doha funds through the ”Qatar Charity” to organizations based in Britain and elsewhere, and emphasized the significant expansion of the Turkish presence through a global network of the Muslim Brotherhood terrorist group, and in 2019, Qatar financed the terrorist group.
Two French journalists have unveiled 138 projects across Europe, mostly linked to terrorist organization Muslim Brotherhood, funded by Qatar, through ”Qatar Charity”, with tens of millions.
According to the documents provided by the journalists, Qatar funds the Brothers of France and Europe, and the documents included the dates of Qatar’s funding of the group since 2014, which amounted to about 72 million euros.
