Are there terrorist group that Qatar does not sponsor?

Last updated on September 11th, 2021 at 02:38 pm

Qatar’s funding of extremists, in the Arab world and beyond, is no secret to most residents of the Middle East. Yet, in the past week, new important points of Doha’s murky dealings overseas have emerged.

According to German newspaper Die Zeit, Doha has been funding Hezbollah and its activities. The Lebanese militant group used to be created by means of Iran in the Eighties as a proxy and it is allied with the Syrian regime.

The statistics was once leaked by a whistleblower solely recognized as “Jason”,who worked as a contractor for Doha. He stated he had been promised €750,000 (Dh3.1 million) from Qatar for the sole cause of hiding proof he had gathered of the country’s support for Hezbollah.

The deal fell through and the contractor went public with the dossier.

This revelation proves that Qatar continues to pursue a strategy of destabilising the region, funding extremists who undermine peace in their own international locations and beyond. This scheme seems to have, in fact, expanded.

Last year, The Qatar Papers, a e book authored by means of two French journalists, uncovered Qatar’s financing of the Muslim Brotherhood in Europe.

it can also seem baffling that Doha would assist two extremist organizations with differing ideologies but in fact Hezbollah and the brotherhood have plenty in common.

They each have a history of destabilising Middle Eastern countries and thriving on sectarian divisions.

They share a frequent approach of the use of faith to reap political strength and famous support. These agencies also operate inside European borders, pressuring their respective communities overseas into conforming to their dogma.

This is specially hazardous at a time when it is increasingly more challenging for human beings to immigrate and break out the moves of extremists like these agencies at home.

This scandal has surfaced at a pivotal time. In early 2019, when these negotiations allegedly took place, Europe tolerated Hezbollah’s non-military activities, differentiating the group’s political party from its paramilitary arm.

The purpose of this superficial big difference was to keep away from alienating Lebanon’s then unitygovernment.

Today, the new Cabinet is aligned with Hezbollah. The group is also allied with Lebanese President Michel Aoun and has its personal representatives in parliament. Over the past year, the US has increased sanctions on Iran and its allies. Some European countries have accompanied suit.

In March 2019, the UK specific Hezbollah entirely as a terrorist business enterprise and in April 2020 Germany banned the group completely, no longer seeing a false differentiation between its political and paramilitary branches.

(thenational)