Qatar has allegedly pumped greater than $20 billion into American faculties and different high establishments as a part of the Muslim Brotherhood’s decades-long plan to infiltrate the US and “destroy” democracy from inside, a number one analysis institute warns — whereas including that the nefarious funding may very well be staggeringly greater.
The Qatar Basis, which is bankrolled by the nation’s ruling Al Thani royal household, has apparently been injecting tens of billions of {dollars} into establishments to assist the Sunni Islamist group carve out toeholds within the instructional system, in response to a brand new report by the Institute for the Examine of World Antisemitism and Coverage (ISGAP).
“The royal household of Qatar has a Bay’ah — a non secular oath — to the Muslim Brotherhood, so that they’re pumping in lots of, many billions of {dollars} into our universities, Ok-12 colleges and cultural establishments, utilizing affect and comfortable energy to advertise its ideology,” Dr. Charles Asher Small, government director of ISGAP, claimed in an interview with The Submit.
Cash trails uncovered by ISGAP present the Qatari regime has donated a staggering $10 billion to Cornell College through the years, Small alleged — with smaller quantities doled out to varsities similar to Georgetown College, Texas A&M and Brown College.
“That is the tip of the iceberg,” Small stated of the eye-watering sum he estimates may very well be “no less than $100 billion,” including that the group has “solely checked out a couple of universities” thus far.
Cornell receives funding to run a medical faculty in Qatar that has seen roughly 600 graduates from 50 nations throughout Asia and the Center East — and that the cash “stays in Qatar,” a spokesperson insisted.
“Budgeted funding for the medical faculty in Qatar has averaged roughly $156 million per 12 months from 2012 to 2025, totaling $2.2 billion. Just about all funding stays in Qatar for Weill Cornell Drugs-Qatar faculty operations,” they added.
“We’re proud to be the primary US-based college to supply our MD diploma abroad to teach and practice medical doctors and scientists in affected person care, biomedical analysis and enhancing high quality of life.”
In the meantime, Georgetown had acquired “over a billion in funds” from Qatar, in response to Small, which was put towards “schooling within the social sciences, Center East research and funding of an important diplomatic coaching program within the US if not the world.
“It’s a really impactful use of sentimental energy,” he added.
Georgetown didn’t reply to a request for remark.
ISGAP additionally found $1.3 billion had been given to Texas A&M by Qatar. Following years of looking, Small stated the group discovered a contract between the Qatar Basis and the college agreeing to fund over 500 analysis initiatives carried out on the faculty’s Qatar campus, which was established in 2003.
The contract ceded “all mental property rights” to the muse, ISGAP claimed — and the varsity confirmed in a press release to The Submit, including that “the school creating the IP are appropriately compensated.”
“College who create mental property at Texas A&M at Qatar obtain 37.5% of the online licensing income from that IP,” the assertion stated. “The remaining web licensing income is distributed 33.3% to the Qatar Basis and 29.2% to Texas A&M at Qatar to reinvest within the analysis program there.
Of those, 58 initiatives had “dual-use” for navy functions, and dozens extra concerned twin use for nuclear analysis, Small stated, noting that ISGAP has referred to as on the Division of Power to analyze.
“No nuclear expertise, weapons/protection or nationwide safety analysis is carried out on the Qatar campus,” Texas A&M stated.
“No delicate or secret analysis is going down at this campus.”
The varsity started the method of closing its campus in Qatar final February. At the moment, it stated it had determined its core mission needs to be centered on Texas and the US. Small, nonetheless, claims ISGAP’s probe “hit some form of uncooked nerve.”
The Submit reached out to the Qatar Basis however didn’t hear again instantly.
The “main automobile for campus affect” is the Muslim College students Affiliation (MSA), the ISGAP additionally claims within the report. The MSA has chapters on greater than 600 school campuses — together with Columbia College and NYU.
It additionally alleges the group is in cahoots with the College students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) — which “cooperates with the MSA” — has been “significantly efficient in advancing Brotherhood goals” tied to the Israel-Hamas battle.
When requested if it plans to open a probe into the MSA chapter at Columbia, a spokesperson for the Ivy League faculty stated it “has been clear that we now have zero tolerance for selling terror or violence.”
The Qatar Basis’s US affiliate, Qatar Basis Worldwide, is behind the map of the “Arab World” renaming Israel as “Palestine” that sparked outrage when it was hung in a classroom at PS 261 in Brooklyn final 12 months.
In the meantime, ISGAP argued in its newest report — titled “The Muslim Brotherhood’s Strategic Entryism into Western Society: A Systematic Evaluation” — that the Islamic group was already midway by way of its plan to “rework Western society from inside” by covertly embedding its allies and beliefs on school campuses and different mainstays of American life.
The group additionally referred to as on the US to designate the Muslim Brotherhood a terror group to thwart its obvious efforts.
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott earlier this week gave the designation to each the Brotherhood and the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR).
“The Muslim Brotherhood is a pro-Hamas group decided to hold out its “civilization jihad” technique with the objective of splintering Western society into terror cells,” Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-NY) stated.
“I’ve persistently supported designating the Muslim Brotherhood as a terrorist group to bolster our nationwide safety and shield the way forward for greater schooling.”
In an effort to safeguard establishments from such undue affect, Small confused that the US wanted to “perceive the thoughts of our enemy.”
“American voters, determination makers and students must pay extra consideration to the significance of ideology,” he warned.
“The strategic objectives we outlined in our report … exhibits the Muslim Brotherhood needs to maneuver Israel away from the US — to isolate it, to destroy it — to make use of antisemitism to fragment and weaken the US and destroy its democracy.”
Small stated that there wanted to be extra transparency relating to overseas funding, too.
“I believe taking funds from entities, states or foundations or companies which are diametrically against democratic beliefs, or beliefs of liberal schooling, there needs to be safeguards to not take cash as a result of it has affect,” he stated.
He pointed to the alarming undeniable fact that “quite a lot of younger folks at our greatest universities are popping out supporting Hamas” as proof that reforms have been wanted.
“The Muslim Brotherhood is dedicated not solely to destroying the state of Israel and murdering Jewish folks all over the world, they’re dedicated to the subjugation of girls, the homicide of homosexual folks and the destruction of democracy,” Small stated.
“Quite simple issues we take without any consideration like citizenship, or the notion that no matter our ethnic, cultural, spiritual, gender, racial background or revenue we now have a proper to be equal below one system in a democracy — that is what they need to destroy and change.”
