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Qatar has been playing the west to benefit the Islamists

Qatar’s Influence Empire Is a National Security Threat

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Jay Engelmayer
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Let’s dispense with the delusions: Qatar is not a peace broker. It is not a bridge between cultures. It is not a “moderate” Arab state.
Qatar is a state sponsor of terrorism. A money launderer for jihad. A luxury hotel for Islamist warlords. And while it bathes in international legitimacy, it quietly orchestrates chaos—arming Hamas, shielding genocidal ideologues, and pouring billions into Western institutions to erode them from within.

The time has come to say what diplomats won’t: Qatar is the puppet master behind Hamas. And the West, in its moral cowardice and economic desperation, is dancing to its tune.

Qatar and Hamas: The Terrorist-Marble Suite Alliance

Hamas did not emerge from Gaza’s rubble on its own. It grew in power through the direct sponsorship of Doha. Every tunnel dug into Israel’s sovereign territory, every Israeli murdered in their home on October 7, every hostage held beneath Gaza’s ruins—all were funded by Qatari petrodollars.

Qatar is not simply “aligned” with the Muslim Brotherhood—it is the Muslim Brotherhood's state, after being exiled from Egypt and banned in Saudi Arabia, the UAE, and Jordan. In Doha, Brotherhood leaders dine in luxury while plotting revolution. Some of them, hosted by Qatar’s ruling elite, have been caught on video preaching death to America, death to Israel, and the triumph of global Sharia law. Qatar doesn’t just enable Islamism—it institutionalizes it.

Oil-Fueled Infiltration: How Qatar Bought the West’s Soul

What Qatar couldn’t conquer with rockets, it bought with "donations."
Elite American and European universities have accepted over $4.7 billion in Qatari “gifts”—cash that has radically reshaped campus culture. What used to be places of rigorous academic debate are now echo chambers of anti-Western, anti-Israel, and anti-capitalist ideology. Harvard. Northwestern. Georgetown. These are no longer ivory towers—they’re ideological outposts for Qatar’s worldview.

Pro-Hamas student groups thrive while Jewish students are harassed, marginalized, and silenced. University presidents squirm when asked to condemn genocide because their institutions are literally funded by a regime that bankrolls one.

Qatar also funnels money into radical political fronts like the extremist wings of Black Lives Matter, and the grotesquely named Jewish Voice for Peace—a fringe group that exists solely to delegitimize Israel and call for the destruction of the Jewish state.

Crocodile Tears and Bloody Hands: Qatar’s Hypocrisy on Gaza

As Israel responded to the worst massacre of Jews since the Holocaust, Qatar wept not for the victims, but for the terrorists. At the Qatar Economic Forum, Prime Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al-Thani piously claimed:

“We thought the release of Edan Alexander would open a door to end this tragedy, but the response was a more violent wave of strikes.”

This is grotesque gaslighting. Qatar hosts Hamas leaders like Ismail Haniyeh in five-star luxury. It funded their tunnels, their rockets, and their ideological indoctrination. And it refused to condemn October 7. Instead, Qatar’s Foreign Ministry blamed Israel while Israelis were still being butchered in their homes.

Qatar’s official statement on the day of the massacre didn’t condemn the rapes, kidnappings, or mass executions. It didn’t mention Hamas. Instead, it called for “restraint” and held Israel solely responsible.
The Qatari press even celebrated the assault, declaring the “Al-Aqsa Flood” a heroic blow to the “Zionist occupation.”

The Axis of Islamism: Qatar, Iran, and the Death of Arab Moderation

While most of the Arab world has turned its back on Iran’s murderous regime, Qatar has drawn it closer. Doha and Tehran have formed a stealth alliance of Islamist supremacy—backing Hamas, Hezbollah, and the Taliban while undermining regional peace efforts.

And Washington has played right into their hands. Even Donald Trump, once a sworn enemy of radical Islam, returned from Qatar with a private jet and nearly $1 trillion in Qatari investments. Qatar doesn’t lobby—it buys loyalty. And the West is for sale.

How is it that the United States continues to lease a military base in Qatar, even as the country hosts Taliban war criminals and bankrolls U.S.-designated terrorist groups? How is it that no meaningful sanctions have ever been imposed on Doha, even as it funds attacks against America’s allies and its values?

Qatar’s Master Plan: Collapse the West from Within

Qatar doesn’t want coexistence—it wants conquest. Not through war, but through influence, infiltration, and ideological decay.
And we’re seeing the results.

  • In Britain, Islamists block roads and bring cities to a standstill as 100,000 men pray in the streets in politically charged demonstrations.

  • In France, police are afraid to enter Sharia-governed suburbs.

  • In America, Jewish students are hunted across campuses while university deans cower behind double-speak.

These are not coincidences. They are products of Qatar’s long game: weakening Western resolve, replacing liberal democratic ideals with post-colonial shame and anti-Israel venom.

And the most sinister part? They’ve done it with our own money.

Enough. Stop Taking Their Money. Start Taking Them Seriously.

The time for appeasement is over. The idea that Qatar is a “moderating force” is a lie. It is a rogue regime cloaked in oil wealth, and its greatest weapon is the West’s greed and cowardice.

  • Expel Qatari influence from Western universities.

  • Sanction the regime for financing terrorism.

  • End diplomatic theater that paints Qatar as a mediator.

  • Hold elected officials accountable for selling out their nations to foreign tyranny.

Qatar has built an empire of radicalism behind the curtain of diplomacy. And unless the world wakes up, it won’t be long before the freedoms we cherish are relics—sold off to the highest bidder in Doha.

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