Most people know Qatar only because this small Gulf state hosted the 2022 World Cup, a tournament intended primarily to burnish the country's dismal image, given that, despite all its wealth and outward displays of opulence, Qatar is the principal sponsor of Islamic fundamentalism and jihadist terrorism. It is a terror state, a threat to the West and should be treated as such.

By Filip Dewinter
The relationship between Qatar and the West is, to say the least, ambiguous, if not hypocritical. On the one hand, Qatar is an official ally of the US and NATO. Let us not forget that Al Udeid Air Base, the United States' most important military base in the Middle East, is located in Qatar.

Although Qatar is not a NATO member, the Pentagon nonetheless regards it as a "major non-NATO ally."

On the other hand, Qatar is a generous financier of various Islamist terrorist organisations, such as Hamas, the Islamic State, and Al-Qaeda. Qatar is increasingly viewed as the hub of a global web of jihadist terror.

Furthermore, Qatar provides a haven for various leaders of such organisations. Virtually the entire leadership of Hamas lives in luxury in the capital, Doha. Through the Muslim Brotherhood and the international news channel Al Jazeera, Qatar disseminates jihadist ideology worldwide; the emirate, once part of the Arab Caliphate, also finances the Islamisation of Europe.

Qatar: The World's Richest Country
Qatar only became a state in 1971. 88% of the inhabitants are "guest workers" brought in from outside Qatar and have no rights. Approximately 300,000 Qataris are the wealthiest people in the world, thanks to oil and gas exports. The average Qatari earns $100,000 per year.

Consequently, Qatar levies no income tax, and its tax rates are among the lowest in the world. It is also worth noting that Qatar holds several major gas fields in Iran. Given the sanctions against Iran, Qatar sells Iranian gas and transfers the proceeds back to Iran. In this way, Qatar helps Iran survive economically.

The Islamisation of Europe
In recent years, Qatar has spent over 70 million euros on the construction of 140 mosques in Europe. Qatar's investment in mosques in Europe has nothing to do with Islamic charity and everything to do with strategy.

Most of the mosques funded by Qatar (whether directly or via the Muslim Brotherhood) have been established in symbolic locations (such as Strasbourg, London, and Paris), where they often exert electoral influence over Muslim voters and can tip the scales in elections.

Qatar is also attempting to infiltrate universities and colleges. In the United States alone, Qatar has invested $6.6 billion in higher education institutions. Meanwhile, Qatar pours billions of dollars into various radical Islamist organisations tasked with orchestrating the Islamization of the West.

The soft-power strategy of Al Jazeera and the Muslim Brotherhood
The Muslim Brotherhood acts effectively as Qatar’s long arm abroad, helping to bring about the Islamization of as many non-Muslim countries as possible. Founded in 1928, this Sunni organisation, alongside the news channel Al Jazeera, has become the primary and most efficient vehicle for spreading political Islam worldwide.

The Muslim Brotherhood represents around 100 organisations across 70 Muslim and non-Muslim nations. It also leads the International Union of Muslim Scholars (IUMS), headquartered in Doha. The IUMS comprises approximately 95,000 Islamic preachers and imams, as well as 67 Islamic organisations spread across the globe.

Preferring infiltration and diplomacy over provocation and agitation, the Muslim Brotherhood serves as a key instrument in the Islamisation strategies pursued by Qatar and other Sunni Muslim nations.

Al Jazeera
While Russian state media (RT) was banned from Europe, Al Jazeera continues to spread its anti-Western hate propaganda unchecked. Therefore, do not underestimate Al Jazeera's impact in countries with large Muslim communities, such as those in the Balkans, Africa, and Europe!

Al Jazeera Media Network, which broadcasts in both Arabic and English, is fully funded by the Qatari government. Al Jazeera is available in 150 countries and has an average audience of 430 million viewers.

Al Jazeera is the primary mouthpiece for Qatar's foreign policy. It is anything but an innocent television channel.

After all, let us not forget that as early as the 1990s, Qatar used Al Jazeera to promote Osama bin Laden by broadcasting his speeches. In this way, potential new terrorists were recruited worldwide for Al-Qaeda, recruitment that later resulted in, among other things, the attacks on the World Trade Centre towers in New York.

While Qatar finances terrorism globally, promotes the Islamization of the West via the Muslim Brotherhood and Al Jazeera, and offers a haven to terrorist organisations like Hamas and Al-Qaeda, European and American politicians "sympathise" with Qatar in exchange for (vast amounts of) money.

Recent scandals, in which Members of the European Parliament were caught in their Brussels hotels with suitcases full of Qatari cash, have captured the public imagination. Qatar employs similar tactics in the USA, co-opting politicians, journalists, and influencers through various "favours."

A recent example is the "right-wing" journalist Tucker "Qatarson" Carlson, who suddenly became a huge fan of Qatar and even owns a home in its capital, Doha. What Qatar cannot obtain through soft power or violence, it simply buys!

Sportwashing
Qatar is well aware of its poor reputation. Consequently, the small state invests heavily in polishing its image. Hundreds of millions of dollars are poured into sports through Qatar Airways. Major football teams, such as Paris Saint-Germain and, in the past, FC Barcelona and Bayern Munich, are or have been sponsored by the airline.

Even FIFA does not shy away from Qatar's sponsorship. Qatar Airways also funds Formula 1 and Grand Prix motorcycle events. Therefore, hosting the 2022 World Cup was a transparent attempt to cast the country in a positive light.

What few people realise is that Al-Nuaimi, the former president of the Qatar Football Association, was, through that very organisation, one of Al-Qaeda's key financiers. Qatar’s major charity, Qatar Charity, also played a pivotal role in funding Osama bin Laden’s terrorist organisation.

Qatar's foreign policy: exporting violence
Through the funding of rebel groups and various organisations, Qatar is responsible for both toppling governments and propping up regimes across Africa, Asia, and the Middle East.

For instance, Qatar invested millions of dollars in the 2011 Libyan revolution that brought down Muammar Gaddafi. The overthrow of Saddam Hussein's regime was also financed with Qatari money.

In Syria, too, Qatari (and Turkish) funds kept the fundamentalist Al-Nusra Front and the group led by Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi alive, aiming to replace Bashar al-Assad's regime with an Islamic caliphate.

IS (Islamic State) is also sustained via Qatar Charity, granting Qatar significant influence in countries such as Sudan, Somalia, Kashmir/India, Egypt, Mali, Nigeria, and Mozambique, as well as elsewhere in Asia, Africa, and the Middle East.

Then there is the support for Hamas, a terrorist organisation that survives and exists only thanks to backing from Qatar. Since 2012, Hamas, whose leaders all reside in luxury hotels in Doha, has reportedly received at least $1.8 billion from Qatar.

Under the guise of humanitarian aid for Gaza, $30 million continues to flow monthly from Qatari accounts to Hamas.

Meanwhile, Qatar positions itself as a mediator between the US and Iran. In doing so, Qatar seeks to exert influence and plays into the hands of its ally, Iran, in its relentless struggle against Israel.

Through various armed Islamist terrorist groups, Qatar orchestrates a global Sunni radical-Islamic revolution. This globalist jihadist proxy war has but one aim: exporting fundamentalist Islam across the entire planet.

Terror-State Qatar
Qatar is the quintessential Islamic terror state. Qatar has set itself the goal of destabilising and Islamizing the West, in tandem with Iran.

To this end, any means will do: from financing, organising, and harbouring international jihadist terrorism, and bribing politicians, journalists, and influencers, to infiltrating and undermining our Western societies; from violence to soft power; from Al-Qaeda and ISIS to Al Jazeera and the Muslim Brotherhood; from Formula 1 to the World Cup.

Qatar is far more than a wolf in sheep's clothing. The Gulf state is the spider at the centre of the political Islam web, pursuing global Islamic domination by any means necessary. Together with Iran, Qatar seeks to eliminate Israel, the outpost of the free West.

After Israel, Europe is next in line. Thanks to its gas and oil reserves, Qatar possesses seemingly inexhaustible financial resources to carry out its plan for Islamic conquest.

It is therefore essential to expose Qatar, dismantle its network, and, above all, refuse to yield to its financial blackmail and bribery. Like Iran, Qatar must become a global pariah, for that is the only fate a terror state deserves!