{"id":32632,"date":"2019-02-20T12:26:49","date_gmt":"2019-02-20T12:26:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=32632"},"modified":"2019-02-20T12:26:49","modified_gmt":"2019-02-20T12:26:49","slug":"qatar-a-hospitable-base-for-muslim-brotherhood-says-washington-think-tank","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=32632","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Qatar a hospitable base for Muslim Brotherhood,\u2019 says Washington think-tank"},"content":{"rendered":"<div itemprop=\"articleBody\" data-io-article-url=\"http:\/\/www.arabnews.com\/node\/1455236\/middle-east\" readability=\"77\">\n<p>\nDUBAI: Qatar is a hospitable base for the Muslim Brotherhood and many of the world\u2019s most virulent Islamists, a senior member of prominent Washington-based think tank Security Studies Group said in an opinion article published in the Washington Times.<\/p>\n<p>\n\u201cQatar\u00a0has been the Brotherhood\u2019s most hospitable base of operations\u2026Brotherhood Islamism would soon emerge as\u00a0Qatar\u2019s de-facto state ideology, as the ruling al-Thani family welcomed the Islamists with lavish funding, the highest state honors, and the establishment of new Islamist institutions that would seek to indoctrinate thousands,\u201d the senior vice president for strategic operations, David Reaboi, wrote.<\/p>\n<p>\nReaboi also called out Qatar\u2019s state-owned news channel Al-Jazeera for pushing extremist Islamist ideology, with the Brotherhood playing a \u201ccrucial role in programming and setting the editorial line.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\n\u201cEven as it claims to be a legitimate, journalistic enterprise, Al-Jazeera is an instrument of power projection for the Qatari regime. Its mission has always been to support\u00a0Qatar\u00a0and the Brotherhood while attacking its enemies in the United States, Israel, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\n\u201cIn Arabic, Al Jazeera pushes a stream of vile, anti-Semitic conspiracy theories, and attempts to rile up religious and extremist Muslims against attempts at positive, human rights reforms in Egypt, Saudi Arabia and other Arab states,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>\nSaudi Arabia, the UAE, Bahrain and non-GCC member Egypt imposed a diplomatic and economic boycott on Qatar in June 2017 over claims that Doha supports terrorism.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DUBAI: Qatar is a hospitable base for the Muslim Brotherhood and many of the world\u2019s most virulent Islamists, a senior member of prominent Washington-based think tank Security Studies Group said in an opinion article published in the Washington Times. \u201cQatar\u00a0has been the Brotherhood\u2019s most hospitable base of operations\u2026Brotherhood Islamism would soon emerge as\u00a0Qatar\u2019s de-facto state&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":32633,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle_east_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32632","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32632"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32632\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/32633"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}