Qatar Charity foundations ... a legal cover for terrorists in Europe

“Influence within Muslim societies in the West is a
key component of Qatar's soft power. Qatar used its money to mobilize its
Brotherhood members to organize Rallies in front of the Qatari embassy in the
United States, to protest against the Gulf boycott of Doha.
Qatar will continue to finance and support terrorist
groups in Syria, Libya and Somalia.
Sandy Report
The foregoing was a summary of Ronald Sandy's latest
reports on terrorism and the countries that support it, providing new evidence
about Qatar's support for militant groups in Europe.
In 2006, Sandy moved to the United States to become
the director of research at the Niva Foundation -NGO- aims to reveal the facts
related to the events of 9/11. In 2013, he began working as a Special Adviser
and Senior Global Jihad analyst at Kronos Consulting.
Sandy is also a co-founder and CEO of Blue Water
Intelligence (a Netherlands-based investigation firm). He is often asked to
express his opinion on terrorism and extremism by local and international
media, especially: Sky News, BBC, CNN, and The New York Times.
Qatar Charity... a legal
hatchery of terrorism
In this recent report, published in more than one
foreign journal, Sandy confirms that it is noticeable that evading not only
distinguishes the geopolitical plays in Qatar, but also directs Doha's
relations and influence with Muslim communities abroad and with terrorist
movements and groups as well.
It is not difficult to see how Doha adopts the
ideology of the Brotherhood, as well as how the Qatari media promote the
terrorist group and other Salafi movements around the world, as Doha uses what
it calls "charitable institutions" in order to provide a legal cover
for the different strains of terrorist activities; For example, the Brotherhood
receives support through the government-affiliated Qatar Charity Foundation,
while other Salafi groups receive various kinds of support from the Eid Charity
Foundation.
These two institutions not only provide financial
support for terrorist activities, but also serve as a cover for the activities
of many branches of extremist groups, as information indicates that the “Qatar
Charity” and “Eid Charity” organizations are remarkably active in Asia, Africa
and Europe, and they engage exclusively with organizations Public or secret brethren.
As part of its operations in Europe, Qatar Charity established its own
foundation in London in March 2012 under the name “Qatar Charity - UK” and
carried the acronym (QCUK).
The Foundation has mixed members of its board of
directors in the United Kingdom with well-known Brotherhood figures, including
Youssef Al-Kuwari, Executive Director of Qatar Charity in Doha, as well as
Youssef Alkawary, Executive Director of “Qatari Diar” affiliated to the
structure of the Qatari sovereign wealth fund.
After establishing its office in London, Qatar
Charity expanded its activities in other parts of Europe with rapid and steady
steps, including France, Belgium and Italy. It has embarked on supporting
well-known Brotherhood organizations in European countries that operate under
the umbrella of the "Union of Islamic Organizations in Europe" and
carry the abbreviation (FIOE), the umbrella organization that brings together
all European Brotherhood networks. What is striking is that Qatar Charity in the
United Kingdom recently started operations in the United States, and has
started financing the construction of a Brotherhood center in Tennessee, named
after the “Memphis Islamic Center”, led by prominent American Muslim
Brotherhood Salafist Yasser Qazi. Qatar Charity - the United Kingdom also
embraced larger projects, which included financing the building of Muslim
Brotherhood centers under the cover of “Islamic centers” in European countries,
which led to the growing European supervision over their activities.
Nectar Trust ... a threat in
Europe
As a result, Qatari board members have been replaced
with the intention of excluding the Qatari character in one form or another.
The Foundation also changed its official name in 2017 from "Qatar Charity
- UK" to "Nectar Trust". The parent organization in Doha works
closely with the Brotherhood's spiritual leader, Youssef Al-Qaradawi, and with
its various institutions based in Doha. Qatar Charity also cooperates with
everyone who targets the Saudi government and seeks to tarnish the image of the
Kingdom. For example, the Foundation worked to recruit Saudi cleric Salman
al-Awda within the framework of al-Qaradawi’s “World Federation”, and was
handed over by a prominent project manager in one of the “Qatar Charity”
operations. , Before the Saudi authorities noticed it. Eid Charity and
Extremist Salafists The "Eid Charity" with a Salafi mentality has
been active in Asia and Africa on a large scale, but has dramatically increased
its activities in Europe in recent times.
Eid Charity was founded by Qatari Abdul Rahman
Al-Nuaimi, who is listed on the Global Terrorism List (SDGT) since 2013 because
of his funding for al-Qaeda in Iraq and Syria. In Europe, Eid Charity
cooperates closely with Salafi organizations in Sweden, Germany, the
Netherlands, and Kosovo, but recently launched its own projects in Kosovo,
Albania, Germany, and the Netherlands, all working to spread radical Islamist
messages addressed mainly to Europeans. It is noted that Al-Naimi used to
organize multiple meetings that included terrorists from the Brotherhood and
their allies, during which deceptive rhetoric slogans based on “anti-Islam
resistance” were used, with the aim of calling for “raising funds for the
resistance in the face of the West.” The information confirms that the
government of Qatar is financing the activities of "Eid Charity",
while Turkey provides a geographical incubator for all of its annual
conferences. Erdogan's personal adviser, Yassin Akti, has become the
coordinator of all Brotherhood meetings and other Islamic organizations on
Turkish soil.
In February 2016, the Qatari Foundation
organized an international conference in Istanbul, which was dubbed
"Al-Aqsa" as a cover for gathering popular support and justifying its
convening. Indeed, the conference attracted large numbers of Salafi activists,
jihadists, and well-known brothers.
Pictures of the conference show that among the
participating official figures are the Salafists associated with Al Qaeda, who
are close to Osama bin Laden, Ahmad Rifai Taha and Muhammad al-Islambouli. Also
among the pro-Brotherhood participants are Wajdi Ghoneim, who is close to bin
Laden, and Hassan bin Ali Sharif al-Kettani, leader of the Salafi-jihadi
movement in Morocco. What attracts attention is what was revealed by recent
documented information about the involvement of Ahmed Rifai Taha and Muhammad
al-Islambouli deeply in terrorist operations in Idlib Governorate in Syria,
shortly after the 2016 conference. The two men assumed executive leadership
positions in the Khorasan jihadist groups, directly linked to al-Qaeda .
Shortly before Rifai was killed in an air strike on
April 5, 2016, it was reported that he had sought, along with Islambouli, to
unite the terrorist groups "Ahrar al-Sham” and "Al-Nusra". It is
reported that the "Nusra" and "Ahrar Al-Sham" and the
individuals associated with them receive large donations from Qatari
individuals. Al Qaeda operatives also enjoyed direct support from prominent
Qatari personalities, and there is evidence that the former Qatari interior
minister invited al-Qaeda leader Khaled Sheikh Muhammad in the mid-1990s to
move from Bosnia to live in Qatar. Khaled Sheikh accepted that offer, and he
lived in Qatar for two years, before moving to Pakistan with a Qatari passport.