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in doha jaring the holy month of ramadan the faithful flock to the mosques to break the fast. it's a time of prayer and also giving in this wealthy conservative islamic country it's an obligation to pay the alms tax or the cops the 3rd of the $5.00 pillars of islam. the mall is a popular destination for many qatari families but not just for shopping it's also a place where people can go to fulfill their religious duty by stopping at a donation base run by qatar charity. what sort of projects are there. supporting orphans supplying drinking water distributing pseudo famine hit areas.

in the arab world or other parts of the world to all over the world to stand togo africa india nigeria kosovo sri lanka nepal senegal. qatar charity is the emirates largest humanitarian organization founded in 1902 it has a presence in more than 70 countries worldwide its goal is to help refugees and vulnerable people victims of war was a natural disaster as. in 2012 qatar charity set up a european subsidiary in london 2 years later the office was inaugurated in the affluent mayfair district. but how benevolent is the ngos mission really might there be another agenda altogether behind katon charity.

in late 2016 an anonymous whistleblower sent us a u.s.b. flash drive that revealed a program with murky objectives. in the memory stick us thousands of confidential qatar charity documents bank transfers e-mail exchanges don't know lists. the collection unveils the existence of a huge hit to unknown funding operation for an extensive network of islamic associations across europe. out of 140 projects worth more than 216000000 euros qatar charity is the main contributor accounting for 120000000 euros. several countries are the focus of attention italy with $47.00 projects france $22.00

spain and the united kingdom 11 projects each and germany 10. apart from various unnamed contributors could tell charities list of generous donors features a number of extremely influential supporters including several members of the qatari ruling family and the day won the emmy as executive office all of these initiatives night at the heart of a program that according to this presentation brochure promotes islamic culture throughout the world especially in the west. we spent 2 years investigating this campaign. could turn charity has been under scrutiny for years for arab countries the united

arab emirates saudi arabia egypt. i accuse it of sponsoring islamist groups under the cover of humanitarian aid. all thing this points to the ruling tunney. the eat the wood disk towers and the ash shaykh time in the bin how much tiny know about the activities of his country's largest and. during an official visit to doha by french president emanuel mcconnell we took the opportunity to ask him. we know that there are some people here in qatar who are suspected of funding i was going to say shadowy groups overseas but there are also suspicions about qatar charity which. at least some information about qatar in the media is not true or not we have taken a range of measures like a target to counter the financing of terrorism and yes that's true. but some of the

information you mentioned may be exaggerated or falls. we continued our investigation in europe. in fronts according to our dossier qatar charity has funded 22 projects tens of millions of euros invested in mosques islamic centers and schools all of them a supported by muslims of fronts an association called m d f formally known as the union of french islamic organizations or us so i asked the flash drives contain substantial information on one initiative in particular. charities flagship project in europe it's located in mill use in eastern fronts. computer generated images of the future a new us center show

a prayer room built on 2 floors classrooms for a new school and a library. the presentation bears the qatar charity logo and is intended to attract. a brew should describes other services offered by the future community center designed in compliance with religious norms observed in. a swimming pool with separate hours for men and women restaurants and supermarkets and a health clinic. while waiting for the project to be completed worshipers pray in an old rundown mosque built in the seventy's. you have a rug good put it there and pray. nasa is president of the muslim association of aus last a local branch of muslims a from so it's an old garage there's a prayer room inside and another one on the ground floor but since there are so

many people there is not enough room and they pray next door so we organize to prayer services on friday there's one of 1 o'clock and we allow for late comers that way we don't pray outside or next door so we don't bother anyone we have a 2nd prayer at 2 o'clock to avoid praying in the street exactly. it is. the police he was right. i'm not. the only thing because you know we can't go on worshipping in this place it isn't worthy of our religious faith or a community and community since the state is secular it can give funds to any religious faith is your money is welcome wherever it comes from if we accept all forms of assistance it can come from people who support the muslim brotherhood or support. or i don't know what as long as we're not subject to any pressure

otherwise we refuse and we have sometimes refusal is the. construction of the new most began in 2006 under the almost finished the our newest center is designed to address the community's new needs. this is the main entrance that's where the reception desk will be able to be who come to pray can go directly to the prayer rooms direct. like i busted this talk the room has a maximum capacity of $1500.00 and a total area of about a 1000 square metres the facade is glass so pat. by can see inside we have nothing to hide so our organization believes in transparency. transparency even when it comes to funding the association received to mean the

simple brown tender nations from the community but the project is costing more than $25000000.00 euros so it also sought financial support from wealthy it donors. used to get ok.d. knowledge is that more than half of the center's budget was funded by contributions from to go from countries q 8 and tom lesser distance gopac is also the qatar made donations of almost 7000000 euros but we're not talking about qatar rather an organization we don't work with the state neither the qatari nor the coa to government the donors are private individuals they have to go through an official organization qatar charity. but you have the same vision of his mom i assume it's because of our kids i don't know what their vision of islam is i know my vision of this life we're a member of the former you know their vision is our vision it's a it is mom of the middle ground support that's our kuwait saudi arabia each

country has its vision but they don't impose that vision on france made that you are a muslim brother. to them is almost always our muslim brothers in a way because you're my brother in humanity he's my brother in islam. what. do you could tell and he waits really donate money with no strings attached. in paris an agent from the french intelligence service has strong doubts he was willing to meet us but requested not to be filmed. we reconstructed the interview. such groups the mosque was funded through different channels in early 201-798-4000 was paid on february 2nd 1000000 123001 february 2nd 1000000

139001 the 23rd and 20172017 but where did the donations come from from qatar charity easily $5000000.00 said to be $5000000.00 euros plus the $5000000.00 from 2016. he says that's just that's right. according to our source the and no a mosque in militias has ties to the muslim brotherhood movement the muslim brotherhood was founded in egypt in 1028 by his son al bana a teacher in theologians who sought to accomplish 2 objectives liberate the country from british them a nation and establish a see a classic regime based on sharia or islamic law. banner maintained that islam was the solution to the moral and identity crisis induced by colonial rule he focused on use education so that future militants would

be well prepared and he developed a network devoted to ideological and religious training the organization in gauged in charitable and social activities abouts in 1948 king for oops prime minister was killed by a member of the brotherhood the government became alarmed by the group's growing influence and decided to ban it. a year later. was assassinated. the muslim brotherhood continued to operate on the ground it adopted violent methods and set up a secret paramilitary wing in 1952 which supported the military coup d'etat that brought a gun nasa to power a few months later. to journalling ideologies now confronted one another nasa's socialist inspired pan arab isn't and the muslim brotherhoods pan islam ism centered on divine or. what will. and i mean.

what element. of the. leading edge of empathy again. do you have shared happened. yet that he'd been physically need to pump. less of the house. and the clinton family and elaborate. that's not. i remember that episode of you want the ballad. nasa decided to clamp down on his burdensome allies and the organization was dissolved the 2nd time in 1954 the brotherhood became the target of a fierce crackdown in the sixty's some members of the group sought refuge in europe . expert in political islam house in

a gay has studied the careers of alabama's ideological as in europe they founded such islamic organizations as you i-f. in france you see italy and in germany. i would be more inclined to call them neo muslim brotherhood a neo muslim brother is someone who clearly identifies with the egyptian muslim brotherhood and ideological terms but it wasn't connected to the brotherhood materially or organically the muslim brotherhood is more an ideology of a good entity there's no cards there's no special status particularly. are ruled european projects currently funded by qatar charity linked to these neo muslims. for the past 15 years and italian academic has been conducting research on muslim brotherhood networks in the west he meets with them members collects their stories and analyzes that time in 2015 there ends of a dino was hired by george washington university in washington d.c.

to head its program on extremism. we are scame to take a look at the documents stored on the flash drive. businesspeople business plan yet really seeing the end of the photos once. back in london. just. getting. money. just to. get noticed. it confirms what i think there's a concerted effort to buy. in to fund the brotherhood networks in europe and to fund the substation we're talking about very big amounts here. it adds a level of detail it's a confirmation see evidence of that i think what surprises me is how

sophisticated this is how consistent it is it's basically almost exclusively brotherhood entities what is important though and makes it more important is the fact that it comes to particular time where other funders have pulled out other countries debates used to fund the brotherhood networks if we're talking about the seventy's the eighty's used to be saudi arabia because i didn't create this back door has been there for a long long time so that if we show him a document signed by catullus most prominent cleric kind of diary recommending support for a most project in milan the fact of a get a letter of support from the recognized peerage will leave there of the muslim brotherhood the pope if you will of the muslim brotherhood. it's a huge piece of evidence that shows that the brotherhood is backing this project.

egyptian born. is the leading proponent of ideology. born in 1926 like many militants he was imprisoned by nothing in the fifty's. in 1961 he fled to khatam. and servant of muslims listen to himself not necessarily muslim brothers mind you he's an advocate of total islam what is total islam it's the idea that islam should govern both private and public life individual affairs and government affairs of the little. town appointed dari dean of the university that when he founded the faculty of islamic studies he became a close friend of the ruling family often appearing in public with the out-i nice. town also gave him a building to serve as the headquarters for the international union for muslim

scholars over which he presided. in addition to these religious platforms the government offered him a global media puppet in 1996 a talk show on al-jazeera called sharia under life for over 15 years our current i dispensed weekly advice to an audience of 60000000 viewers issuing fatwahs sometimes shocked the west. out of more than $6000.00 verses of the koran there is one verse that deals with a condescending and disobedient wife it is said that one of the methods of treatment is and that. should a homosexual or a lesbian be punished. so some say they should be thrown from a high place as god did with the people of sodom some say we should burn them 1st

and the last a lot already throughout history allah has imposed people upon the jews who would punish them for their corruption the last punishment was carried out by hitler the . fact that really all the things he did to them even though they exaggerated this issue he managed to put them in their place for the media as. some friends have quoted a hottie that says his long will conquer wrong. stuff. to tell yeah does this mean that we will bank wish the europeans once again. it was a gift and i believe the next conquest will be conducted through door walk but of course the muslims must start acting and order to conquer this world. all this passage from the prophet isn't specifically referred to in the flesh dr

documents italy is clearly the n.g.'s main target the country is home to the largest number of projects 47 in all funded to the tune of 25000000 euros by qatar charité. most of them bad the stamp of the union of islamic communities and organizations if it's silly or you see i which is ideologically close to the muslim brotherhood. an analysis of the does ca points to one area in particular sicily. one of the documents is a brochure devoted entirely to the region with 11 projects that are funded by qatar charity. on page 3 the organization highlights the fact that the island was once under a muslim rule as if to justify its support. is naam came to the

island in $8827.00 and lasted for about 472 years a period during which the region enjoyed stability and progress. in the n.g.'s cites the same historical reference some pages 12 and 13 to rationalize its decision to acquire a building in messina. it was built in 1910 the owners are of arab descent its architectural design is inspired by its original islamic features. this is the building in question. kite of delafield who was born in algeria is president of the islamic community of sicily and of catan yeah he negotiated its purchase. law you have. to he received all this aid from doha. and the islamic community of sicily was the 1st association

to be recognized by qatar charity on. the r.v. she would eat but it's the 1st to have received funds and they're all legal. and it's clear you are a muslim brother. no i'm not a muslim brother i mean i'm a muslim. on it was this are all brothers. we hear that all the time. we're all brothers. so what one activist in northern francis decided to oppose the brotherhood's double speak an engineer born in morocco in 1980 mohammed who easy joined the muslim brotherhood when he was a teenager at the end of the ninety's he went to lille to attend college and joined the u.s. i-f. its leaders to came under their wing and just signed him. for 15 years from 1901 to 2006 i was a member of the brotherhood and in october 2006 i decided to leave the organization

after realizing that the brothers teaching were meant to turn us young people in the ninety's into ideological instruments. so i decided to speak out to start a blog write articles and to dig deeper so people could understand it so other young people didn't get ensnared by this ideology should you wish. he carries out most of his research on the internet and social media that's how he discovered the desk mosque which he attended for many years and which is run by us yes received a visit of a could read allegation in 26 staying. in this photo in the background there's the villain of the ask mosque here you see the rector of the mosque mohammad coverup. next to him far the current president of muslims of france the former us. and that man is shy come out of bed nasser of the chairman of the

board of directors of qatar charity in doha show he's a big boss of. shaikh hamad bin. more than the highest ranking person in the organization a former minister of the interior he is a leading member of the ruling family and a cousin of the media to mean the new easy is more interested in someone else should you know that one shake ahmed mohamed ali hammadi let's say he's the one who distributes the funds for qatar charity in europe according to my sources he holds a qatari diplomatic passport he travels pretty much everywhere in europe and he's the one who meets with members of the muslim brotherhood in each city. a collection of documents includes proof that katon charity wired funds to the desk center

a bank receipt for more than 250000 reales or approximately 60000 euros. appears in a number of photos. like this one taken at the new us site in moose sometimes in western clothes sometimes in traditional dress. there's even a picture of him preaching at the old mill use mosque. he also attended the inauguration of the tanya mosque in sicily. they found him in a series of 28 programs filmed in europe in 2015 for a qatari channel propaganda broadcasts promoting political islam. in the 21. you need to it was filmed in spain italy france germany england but here we see mohammad ahmed how mahdi visiting. you are you sure this you know one

of the euro i have leaders more is overseeing a project to build a mosque there that commemorates the battle of 732. the time of shah. shah what on the 30 confirmed this is an important date in french history since it was the only victory by christians over muslims at the time one by. king of the franks. it's noted that the conquest was won by the sword because we're not sure today we want our center in to be a new stage of the most of the conquest but in a different way we hope to make this place a center of dialogue as to what. you can protest when muslims in a working class neighborhood want to build a place of worship they don't have this idea in their heads of conquering through mosques but in the mind of the muslim brotherhood the construction of

a mosque means making the muslim presence not to say the islamist presence more visible in france and europe. if you can show how i was with an arab broadcasters so the discussion was in arabic and the audience was exclusively arab. in muslim history muslims believe that the army of the time war martyrs so party is called the city of martyrs lane so it must be put in an historical context. the grand mosque doesn't have a name. it's called the grand mosque up watty a period i do know it was good 44. more claims he didn't receive any foreign funding however the memory stick contains receipts of 2 bank transfers in 2012 to the muslim association of plots for the martyrs lane mosque one for 1000000 riaz the other 575000 reales equivalent

to a total of nearly 400000 euros. over you. i see that it was sent to port here 1000000. if and then there. was it looks to me like it was transferred to our account probably. do what year was that 2012 right so probably it took place honestly i don't remember at all but you to hear it says muslim association in arabic it can't be this account number of bank book is a u.i. after 20 account for the construction of the party a mosque. we also noticed that qatar charity provided funds to associations that were 99 percent linked to the muslim brotherhood without necessarily being affiliated. yes but it's quite legitimate for you to help associations in the

legal who's understanding and reading of his lawn you approve of the. i think that's perfectly normal. was because this is what we all know is that qatar embarked on a huge very well funded image campaign. he didn't vested in the paris sascha mom football clubs and wanted to help entrepreneurs and poor suburbs and book they did. it wanted to rebuild its image to distance itself from saudi arabia to say we represent another approach another way of looking at islam. he did this to promote a modern islam they can text to allies as long. as you have. the pretzel statements confirm that qatar has a strategy of supporting the muslim brotherhood network. and those who are close to

it. the sudden surge in spending the attention of intelligence services. in gemini at the state office for the protection of the constitution westphalia. direct to book written he shared his thoughts with us. we have observed that salafism is out to divide society but also the muslim brothers i was ostensibly they uphold democracy but we've observed that within the organization there's a push for an islamic state based on the koran and sharia on cool on sharia. germany we've noticed for some time now that the muslim brotherhood has become more active and. we assume that the muslim brotherhood is funded both by private donations and by arab countries. and financial industry is indeed we raise awareness of the dangers posed by the muslim brotherhood among the public and also

politicians and that actually of the ways it undermines democracy at its roots is to the democratic for 2 and one mind and feel. i recommend banning donations from abroad because that allows foreign governments to influence religious elements that are active here and unshed luna followed. charity exert influence over the and. if so how. the museum of the civilizations of islam in the swiss city of foam in the cancer on of new show was financed by qatar charity it opened its doors in 26 dean its director is not come. here for this museum came about 17 years ago driven by a desire to create something enjoyable and at the same time a place where people can go to seek answers. at the time of its inauguration coming

made a list of donors public they were primarily from the gulf she didn't hide the fact that some of the funds were funneled through qatar charity. these people can't send money directly but can give it to a local organization that qatar charity once transferred a small sum we didn't have any choice it was either that or we didn't get our money we don't know that ship. and her husband mohammed come moved here on the right operates a dozen associations cultural centers and religious centers in french speaking switzerland and in the canton of to chino they are influential islamic figures in their country the flash drive documents show that nadia come outta downplays her ties to qatar charity in 2014 she signed a contract with its director. to renovate the building that houses the museum in

total 14 bank receipts not only for payments to the cultural institute that hosts the museum but also to another cultural center in lows and to an association in lugano into chino. these 2 establishment run by her husband between 20112013 qatar charity wired nearly 3000000 swiss francs or more than 2 and a half 1000000 euros for initiatives headed by the husband and wife team goodness is looking are you familiar with this document it's an application an application for fun signed by. by me. and i don't deny it. let me it's a large amount. well yes it's an interesting country. no but you told me it was a small. yes yes it's for the new project besides they didn't agree to

finance it they want us to start and then they'll decide here's a bunch of wire transfers that's your institute week and they are very large some think they give you quite a lot of money if you will see. as i told you they're not the ones who financed us it was individuals these people wrote checks made donations and it was up to qatar charity to transfer them to us and they did that sometimes with difficulty i'm i doubt it was the london office that decided it they said yes 1st we need a contract we didn't want to sign because there were conditions should lose they signed a contract with them and they have to fulfill all the conditions young how the conditions are displaying the qatar flag cetera inviting 3 or 4 of their people to every meeting and so on and they also need to approve certain expansion projects

for example then set as i want to small in other words they want to control the entities they find it is not that they impose but they influence. a little yes they try to exert influence thanks to the kamu says qatar charities influence spread beyond the borders of switzerland into france. this is what journalist 20 aon discovered in a memo written by the french domestic intelligence agency. said to note. the memo describes how french customs carried out an inspection on a high speed train from zurich to paris on april 30th 2007 that mr mohammad camos was questioned and that he was found to be carrying 50000 euros in cash. should go mr camos said the 50000 euros were given to him in geneva by a man named ahmed of midi. a list benefactor acts as

a liaison for the prestigious egyptian shaikh use of. the sum was intended for the european institute of human sciences in me which trains in mom's if we commit to calm most also said he considered the money transfer to be a normal almost routine procedure for the girl lastly the memo indicates that he belongs to the muslim brotherhood. and that he is even believed to be a member of the an aadhaar moment in tunisia. yet in the dark the sentence at the bottom of the memo states that his spouse nadia come fully supports her husband's objectives. and the european institute of human sciences is based in chateau she know in burgundy frumps inaugurated in 1902 and founded by the us i have the center trains future in moms by offering them residential programs in

arabic qur'an and theology studies. it's a unique facility and from it's. too high a mood around the institute for 30 years until 2018 i do think challenge of receiving payments from kids ha charity. the number of financial entanglements between katon charity and its benefactor has increased between 201420178 period when neighbors were ramping up pressure on the country. tar is at the epicenter of a diplomatic earthquake to saudi arabia egypt the united arab emirates and bahrain have sever diplomatic ties with the small country they accuse it of supporting terrorism getting tomorrow airline companies in the region will suspend the flights to and from gigs are the objective is to financially strangle the emirate the

political and economic blockade of qatar began on june 5th 2017 a move justified by catullus alleged support of missed groups but the state was also paying for its unchecked growth strategy it didn't order to achieve independence from saudi arabia. guitar charity closed down its mayfair office in london in 2018 and its local officials left the country. but in fact qatar charity u.k. didn't really disappear it changed its name to necktie trust a few months ago and it no longer has a london office as if to raise old time with the parent company. the boy. the pressure on doha since 2017 has been intense saudi arabia the united arab emirates bahrain and egypt all cited catullus support

of the muslim brotherhood as one of the reasons for the blockade. we decided to visit the organizations headquarters also equipped with a hidden camera since all requests to the qatari authorities had fallen on deaf ears. are you ahmed i'm his assistant. and you're french journalist do you want to film here. do you have a permit do you have a document can i take this is he busy he's in a meeting i can't disturb him invest in a lot of most can europe. look at that because you will go. in but it's we've got too much. pressure here and like your so they. so it

should be you know got out of the game up in the old world and all of the big push it. over to motion of those. people. was big big. after this meeting in qatar charity stopped responding to our requests in response to international pressure the emirates has now toned down its efforts to expand its influence including in the area of religion i checked a few informations and it seems that qatar finance muslim brotherhood branches in europe it's not what i say my answer is no. guitar does not support the muslim brotherhood in europe you are talking under the assumption that the muslim brotherhood is one entity what is the muslim brotherhood in tunisia you have another do you have i mean you officially the different european countries have official ties with tunisia they have problems dealing with

another part i don't think so going back to your question any involvement of guitar in europe in terms of any contributions this is totally illegal and i'm pretty sure it's under the side of the respective governments so it exists i'm not sure i mean it depends case by case circuit are to be i mean through some of the legal entities could be contributing to some cultural censors and so on and so forth but then the way you phrase it sounds very suspicious while it's very legal and in the light. of what this means is that the west should face up to its own responsibilities to be sure qatar charities funding channels are complex and a peg bops if qatar like other arab states before it became involved in funding is now more european soil it was merely filling a void. if european countries hope to counter this strategy of

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