{"id":1646421,"date":"2022-09-19T06:32:50","date_gmt":"2022-09-19T10:32:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1646421"},"modified":"2022-09-19T06:35:08","modified_gmt":"2022-09-19T10:35:08","slug":"top-foreign-funder-of-transnational-terrorism-funds-think-tank-that-staffs-democrat-presidential-administrations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/top-foreign-funder-of-transnational-terrorism-funds-think-tank-that-staffs-democrat-presidential-administrations\/","title":{"rendered":"Top Foreign Funder Of Transnational Terrorism Funds Think Tank That Staffs Democrat Presidential Administrations"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftop-foreign-funder-of-transnational-terrorism-funds-think-tank-that-staffs-democrat-presidential-administrations%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1646421&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p>American policy makers, law enforcement, and intelligence agencies often rely on U.S.-based think tanks for research and policy recommendations. While many institutions produce academic products with intellectual sovereignty and moral integrity, too many receive undisclosed foreign funding from countries hostile to the United States and our interests.<\/p>\n<p>Funding from these countries is generally associated with a quid pro quo. For this funding, the think tank provides analysis that is less than objective, which may lead to devastating international and national security consequences.<\/p>\n<p>The looming threat of the revival of 2015 Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) should compel the examination of American think tanks\u2019 relationships with subversive regimes, such as Iran. Among the leading think tanks <a href=\"https:\/\/www.brookings.edu\/research\/reviving-the-jcpoa-is-the-better-alternative-but-can-it-be-made-sustainable\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">pushing<\/a> for reinstating the JCPOA is the Qatari-funded Brookings Institution. Brookings is a top incubator of staffers for Democrat presidential administrations, including the current Biden administration.<\/p>\n<p>Concerns about U.S. think tanks\u2019 foreign ties are not new. In September 2014, The New York Times published an investigative report titled, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2014\/09\/07\/us\/politics\/foreign-powers-buy-influence-at-think-tanks.html?_r=0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">\u201cForeign Powers Buy Influence At Think Tanks.\u201d<\/a> The report states that funding sources are often undisclosed and listed European and Arab countries that fund American think tanks. The donations that present the greatest concerns are provided by Qatar, a country ruled by an Islamic monarchy with ties to Iran\u2019s mullahs and the Muslim Brotherhood.<\/p>\n<p>In 2013, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.meforum.org\/7609\/qatar-al-qaeda-and-the-taliban-a-creepy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Qatar\u2019s mediation between the Taliban and the United States<\/a> resulted in the release of Taliban <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baltimoresun.com\/la-fg-dangerous-taliban-5-20140605-story.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">mass murderers and war criminals<\/a> from prison and led to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2017\/8\/1\/afghan-taliban-qatar-plays-major-role-in-peace-talks\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">opening<\/a> of the Taliban\u2019s \u201cpolitical\u201d office in Doha. Negotiations with the Taliban ultimately resulted in handing Afghanistan to the Taliban to run it as a jihadist base for transnational terrorism.<\/p>\n<h2>Qatar Funded the Brookings Institution<\/h2>\n<p>Also in 2013, according to The New York Times report, Qatar provided a \u201c$14.8 million, four-year donation\u201d to the Brookings Institution. Not coincidentally, the following year Brookings began a disinformation campaign on behalf of the Muslim Brotherhood.<\/p>\n<p>For instance, a 2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.brookings.edu\/ar\/opinions\/\u0647\u0644-\u064a\u0639\u0648\u062f-\u0627\u0644\u0625\u062e\u0648\u0627\u0646-\u0627\u0644\u0645\u0633\u0644\u0645\u0648\u0646-\u0641\u064a-\u0645\u0635\u0631-\u0625\u0644\u0649-\u0627\u0644\u0639\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">article posted on Brookings\u2019 Arabic website<\/a> deliberately misstated the fourth of the Muslim Brotherhood\u2019s ten <em>thawabet<\/em> (precepts) by writing \u201cduring the process of establishing democracy and relative political freedom, the Muslim Brotherhood is committed to abide by the rules of democracy and its institutions.\u201d In fact, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ikhwanwiki.com\/index.php?title=%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AB%D8%A7%D8%A8%D8%AA_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%A8%D8%B9_-_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AC%D9%87%D8%A7%D8%AF_%D8%B3%D8%A8%D9%8A%D9%84%D9%86%D8%A7\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">the fourth precept<\/a> translates to \u201cviolent jihad and martyrdom.\u201d It states \u201c<em>al-jihad sabiluna\u201d<\/em> (\u201cjihad is our way\u201d), which the Brotherhood insists is an obligation of every individual Muslim, as well as the collective obligation of the organization.<\/p>\n<p>Qatari funding to Brookings and other foreign policy think tanks has devastating foreign policy repercussions that go beyond the pro-Muslim Brotherhood propaganda.<\/p>\n<p>Last June, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/politics-news\/fbi-seizes-retired-generals-data-related-qatar-lobbying-rcna32467\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">FBI seized electronic data from John R. Allen<\/a>, a retired four-star general who led U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan prior to becoming the president of Brookings from November 2017 until June of this year. Federal prosecutors obtained records indicating that Allen, while serving as Brookings\u2019 president, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/06\/07\/us\/politics\/general-john-allen-lobbying-qatar.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">\u201csecretly lobbied for the government of Qatar, lied to investigators about his role and tried to withhold evidence sought by a federal subpoena.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/int.nyt.com\/data\/documenttools\/dc-lobby-court-documents\/df4dbfe3fd26ed7a\/full.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Court documents revealed \u201csubstantial evidence\u201d<\/a> that Allen\u2019s violations of the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA) were \u201cwillful.\u201d While these allegations were levied against Allen, they should have also included Brookings. After all, Brookings was the conduit through which Qatari funds and influence were peddled.<\/p>\n<h2>Qatari Ties to Muslim Brotherhood<\/h2>\n<p>Qatar\u2019s ties to the Muslim Brotherhood are clear. Author Muhammad al-Honi is a personal advisor to Saif al-Islam Gaddafi, son of the late Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi. In his book, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/25736465\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Saif al-Gaddafi<\/a>,\u201d al-Honi wrote that former emir of Qatar Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani \u201cstated that he was a member of the Muslim Brotherhood.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Al-Honi added that the emir\u2019s successor, Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani, followed in his father\u2019s footsteps and was able to stage a \u201ccoup against his father and seize power with the help of the Brotherhood.\u201d Al-Honi and Saif al-Gaddafi\u2019s claims that the Qatari royal family are card-carrying members of the Brotherhood are confirmed by Qatar\u2019s militant support of the group and its terror and jihadist offshoots. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>For example, since 2013 Qatar has become either a permanent destination or a transit route for the Brotherhood\u2019s convicted terrorists and jihadists fleeing prosecution for a wide array of terror attacks and assassinations they perpetrated in Egypt. Qatar would either host these jihadists or facilitate their migration to Turkey, the United States, Europe, and elsewhere. <\/p>\n<p>Among the most notorious jihadists who benefited from this policy was Brotherhood leader and ISIS supporter <a href=\"https:\/\/www.meforum.org\/6562\/the-muslim-brotherhood-fountain-of-islamist\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Wagdy Ghoneim.<\/a> Qatar hosted him for a few years until they trafficked him to continue his jihadist agitation in Turkey. <\/p>\n<p>Another example is convicted terrorist Ahmed Abdel-Basit Mohamed, also known as Basit. Basit was involved in the assassination of Egypt\u2019s Prosecutor General Hisham Barakat in 2015. On his Facebook page, Basit <a href=\"https:\/\/www.meforum.org\/7361\/an-asylum-seeker-who-needs-to-be-deported\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">admitted<\/a> to involvement in jihadist activities including a terrorist attack that killed and injured 506 people. Basit fled Egypt to Qatar, which subsequently facilitated his relocation to the United States.<\/p>\n<p>The Qatari government\u2019s brazen support for transnational terrorism is self-confessed. Qatar\u2019s deputy prime minister and minister of foreign affairs, Muhammad bin Abdul Rahman bin Jassim al-Thani, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=8enyexoCc6s\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">admitted to Qatar\u2019s terror funding<\/a>, stating, \u201cas for the issue of terrorism financing, this exists in all countries in the region and it doesn\u2019t only apply to Qatar. Qatar is actually at the bottom of the list of nations implicated in this crime.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Finally, let\u2019s not forget about Al Jazeera, the state-owned broadcasting company of Qatar with a U.S. channel. There is little doubt that the information disseminated by Al Jazeera is information deemed acceptable by Qatar\u2019s emir, Al Thani, a self-acknowledged Muslim Brotherhood member.<\/p>\n<p>In 2020, then-Secretary of State Mike Pompeo published <a href=\"https:\/\/2017-2021.state.gov\/on-transparency-and-foreign-funding-of-u-s-think-tanks\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">\u201cOn Transparency and Foreign Funding of U.S. Think Tanks\u201d<\/a> stating: \u201cTo protect the integrity of civil society institutions, the Department requests henceforth that think tanks and other foreign policy organizations that wish to engage with the Department disclose prominently on their websites funding they receive from foreign governments, including state-owned or state-operated subsidiary entities.\u201d We have yet to see that transparency.<\/p>\n<p>It is time to designate Qatar as a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.state.gov\/state-sponsors-of-terrorism\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">state sponsor of terrorism<\/a>, and the Department of Justice should require Brookings and any other think tanks affiliated with Qatar to register as foreign agents. Our national security depends on a clear-eyed response to Qatar\u2019s funding and the Muslim Brotherhood\u2019s influence.\u00a0<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" \/>\n<div class=\"article-author-description fst-italic\">\n  Cynthia Farahat is an Egyptian-American scholar and dissident, and a fellow at the Middle East Forum. Her book, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.simonandschuster.com\/books\/The-Secret-Apparatus\/Cynthia-Farahat\/9781642938654%E2%80%9C\/\">\u201cThe Secret Apparatus: The Muslim Brotherhood\u2019s Industry of Death\u201d<\/a> will be published in September 2022 by Bombardier Books, an imprint of Post Hill Press.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>American policy makers, law enforcement, and intelligence agencies often rely on U.S.-based think tanks for research and policy recommendations. 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