To release their new “Document of General Principles and Policies,” leaders of Hamas held a press conference at a hotel in Qatar, where the organization’s main office is located. Clifford May explains why Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani, emir of the small but wealthy country, hosts the terrorist group:
[Sheikh al-Thani] is extraordinarily adept at playing both ends against the middle. He provides Hamas not just with a capital-in-exile but also with much of its funding. He supports other Muslim Brotherhood organizations throughout the region. Financiers of al-Qaeda, the Taliban, and other terrorist groups operate openly in Qatar. At the same time, the emir transmits Qatari perspectives—a less polite term would be Islamist propaganda—around the world through Al-Jazeera, the state-funded international television network.
But Qatar has another face. It hosts the largest American military base in the Middle East. It contributes millions of dollars to several Washington think tanks. And it lavishly subsidizes satellite campuses [in Qatar] for American universities. Among them are Georgetown, Cornell, Carnegie Mellon, Northwestern, Texas A&M, and Virginia Commonwealth.
The [satellite] campuses are located in “Education City,” where the main mosque regularly features Islamist clerics. For example: Mudassir Ahmed, who from the pulpit last year said: “Kill the infidels. . . . Count them in number and do not spare one!” Another preacher called for Allah to “render victorious our brothers the mujahedeen . . . in every place” and to “guide their shooting.”
What do the administrators of the American colleges say about this? Not a word. When it comes to Islamists, too many academics long ago gave up the struggle to see what’s in front of their noses.
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