Mick Hartley

Ella Kenan – Qatar’s Long Game: How Influence, Ideology, and Money Shape the West:

Any serious examination of Qatar’s influence strategy must address its relationship with the Muslim Brotherhood. Founded in Egypt in 1928, the Brotherhood is a transnational Islamist movement whose ultimate objective is the establishment of a global Islamic caliphate governed by Islamic law, pursued through gradual institutional penetration rather than immediate violence.

This ideology is widely considered extremist and is banned by law in several Arab states, including Saudi Arabia, Egypt, and Jordan, which view it as a threat to state stability. Hamas is the Palestinian branch of the Muslim Brotherhood and combines this worldview with terrorism and armed violence. Qatar supports the Brotherhood for both ideological and pragmatic reasons, using its networks to project influence far beyond its size.

When these ideas are laundered through Western media, academia, and civil society, they become harder to identify and easier to normalize. That is the real risk.….

The US are in the process of banning the Muslim Brotherhood. I linked to this MEMRI report a couple of days back, in which Arab writers urge Europe to follow the US example.