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<p class="has-small-font-size"><strong>by Anna Sacher</strong> <strong>and Waleed Alghamdi</strong></p>



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<blockquote class="wp-block-quote"><p>Agnes Callamard is known for her hostility towards Saudi Arabia and her silence regarding Iran and Turkey.</p></blockquote>



<p id="56cf">In this report, I will describe some of the most famous human rights organizations, their political backgrounds, financiers and goals. On closer inspection, you will find that all of them, whether it is Human Right Watch, Amnesty International, etc., are organizations that are close to the Muslim Brotherhood.</p>



<p id="56cf">Human Rights Watch can be considered a highly suspicious institution, that has submitted to the orders from Qatar and Turkey, and the Muslim Brotherhood. Doha funds many human rights organizations and reports, that just serve to target certain countries. But not only Doha, George Soros is another sponsor of these organizations.</p>



<p id="7a02">Amnesty International is also not a neutral and impartial organization, because of its known political and ideological interests, that go beyond any correctness and credibility. Amnesty International receives respectable financial donations, and this seems to be enough to give it sacred legitimacy. What is also interesting about Amnesty International is, that its funding streams are used by employees and former directors-general for personal purposes. Irene Khan, who received financial compensation of 600 million euros when she left the organization, that defends the interests of the world’s poor, leaves questions unanswered.</p>



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<p id="6ee2">Susan Nossel, the director of Amnesty International, was the chief assistant to Hillary Clinton, the former Secretary of State and advocate of the so-called “Smart Power Policy”. She previously worked for the US Institute for Foreign Relations, one of the official interfaces for American intelligence services.</p>



<p id="23a4">One of the best known financiers of Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International, is George Soros. He also controls the values ​​of Europe through the highest European judicial authority. Due to his influence, many European countries were forced to change their laws in order to implement an open society without borders. George Soros tries to put an end to the idea of ​​closed nations, and to enforce an open society without borders. Anyone who regards his ideas, and ignited revolutions as inhuman is considered an anti-Semite, and is classified in the category of fascists. </p>



<p id="23a4">Many heads of state are of the opinion that George Soros, with his Open Org Society and countless NGOs, aims to destroy the world. His biggest critics include: Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin, Victor Orban and Benjamin Netanyahu. Most of the judges at the European Court of Human Rights belong to NGOs that are funded by the Open Society.</p>



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<p id="e222"><strong>So what has George Soros got to do with the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia? </strong></p>



<p id="e222">George Soros, who supports the extreme left in Europe and America, also appears as an obvious sponsor of Antifa, makes no secret of promoting the activities of the Muslim Brotherhood. Wasn’t it he, who awarded the Tunisian Muslim brother Ghannouchi the Peace Prize? It is also confirmed, that he supports Muslim Brotherhood networks in Europe with financial grants.</p>



<p id="1114">As everyone knows, the Muslim Brotherhood sparked revolutions, bloody civil wars and the so-called Arab Spring, a movement that, under the guise of humanity, served Soros and his Open Society Foundation, as it drove millions of people out of their countries were then received by Ms. Merkel in Germany with open arms, which earned her the nickname &#8211; &#8220;Mutti&#8221;.</p>



<p id="4f06">Now to Sarah Lea Whitson, Executive Director of DAWN and Human Rights Watch division in the Middle East. She was the first to spread rumors about the causes of Morsi’s death, and has a close relationship with Bin Jassim, a member of the Royal Family in Qatar. She has been interviewed on Muslim Brotherhood channels such as Aljazeera and Makmalin, and announced that her organization would campaign for the release of Muslim Brotherhood leaders. </p>



<p id="4f06">The woman who holds a key leadership position at Human Right Watch is the group’s first defender of terrorism, and her main focus right now is publicly denouncing Saudi Arabia, Egypt, and the United Arab Emirates. It has been shown to be particularly supported by the American Democratic Party, which has close ties with the Muslim Brotherhood. According to the media reports, Sarah Lee Watson received $ 100,000 for three reports, the last of which was about incitement to Egypt. Because of its ties with Qatar, HRW’s Middle East division has never condemned human rights abuses against foreign migrant workers in Qatar. </p>



<p id="4f06">Hamad bin Jassim provided this woman with false reports of allegations, that Iraq and Syria possessed weapons of mass destruction. Her connection to the Muslim Brotherhood goes back to the time of the former President Hosni Mubarak, where she appeared constantly on the Aljazeera Network to polish up the image of the Muslim Brotherhood.</p>



<p id="cb6d">Now we come to Agnes Callamard, she worked for Amnesty International from 1998 to 2001, then as executive director for the human rights organization ARTICLE-19. She is currently director of the Global Freedom of Expression project at Columbia University, and special rapporteur for extrajudicial executions, and sits on the Human Rights Council the United Nations. Agnes Callamard is known for her hostility towards Saudi Arabia and her silence regarding Iran and Turkey.</p>



<p id="f3ca">In 2013, human rights defender, Agnes Callamard wrote a special report calling on the Egyptian military to lift bans on five Egyptian satellite channels and other people affiliated with Hamas and jihadist Islamic parties. She considered closing channels of the Muslim Brotherhood, because they were necessary for so-called democratic discourse as a violation of freedom of expression. </p>



<p id="f3ca">Agnes Callamard also attended a meeting of the United Nations Human Council in September 2010 with Tariq Ramadan, the grandson of Al-Banna, who was convicted of rape and sexual assault of minors in France. She called several times on the United Nations to work for the release of members of the Muslim Brotherhood.</p>



<p id="896d">Before starting the investigation into the murder of Khashoggi, she worked with a number of international organizations and associations, to politicize the Khashoggi case as part of the campaign against Saudi Arabia. She ignored in her reports that Khashoggi’s article in the Washington Post was proven to have been directed and written by the Qatar Foundation International, and the American “Maggie Salem”, the foundation’s executive director. Agnes also aimed to use human rights reports on behalf of private human rights organizations to attack the Arab coalition and legitimacy in Yemen. </p>



<p id="896d">It accused both Saudi Arabia and the United Emirates of targeting civilians and ignored all human rights reports regarding the terrorist activities of the Houthis, who carried out countless extrajudicial executions in Yemen, and committed and continue to commit many human rights abuses that are simply overlooked. At the same time, Agnes is under criticism for her silence regarding the massive arrests of opposition activists and journalists in Turkey, which she also does not criticize. Your report on Khashoggi and the CIA report contain no evidence of the involvement of Mohammed bin Salman, but the wording in the international media gave the impression that, Mohammed bin Salman had commissioned the murder, or the report had proven it.</p>



<p id="4853">This extremely dubious 1-page report contains nothing, but assumptions and assessments, and ultimately even the human rights organizations and Ms. Callamard were disappointed that no direct evidence was found.</p>



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<p><strong>Muslim Brotherhood and Clinton Emails</strong></p>



<p id="4c11">As emerged from the Clinton emails, Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama supported the Muslim Brotherhood during the Arab Spring both financially, ideologically and with weapons, to carry out bloody revolutions in various countries. The result was countless cities and infrastructures destroyed, 1.4 million injured and dead, 22 million refugees and over 100 million unemployed. Syria, Yemen, Tunisia, Lebanon, Libya and Egypt were particularly hard hit.</p>



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<p id="5917">In 2013, the Muslim Brotherhood was successfully overthrown in Egypt and banned as a terrorist organization.</p>



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<p id="eed5">The Brotherhood was founded in 1928 in Egypt by Hassan Al Bannah, the British and the Freemasons, to help build the Islamic Caliphate worldwide. In fact, he went so far as to express his willingness to declare war on “any leader, party and organization” who fail to implement the Brotherhood’s programs.</p>



<p id="eed5">In the 1940s, the Brotherhood’s “secret apparatus”, a paramilitary unit established by El-Banna, carried out serious acts of political violence. Those murdered included a prominent judge, the Cairo police chief and the Egyptian prime minister. In 1954 they tried to assassinate President Gamal Nasser.<br>Even after it was disbanded in December 1948, the Brotherhood turned to more violence, militarization and clandestine action. It remained in the grip of the secret apparatus for decades and encompassed the jihadist philosophy led by El-Banna and promoted by his student Sayyid Qutb.</p>



<p id="e2d1">Brotherhood splinter groups such as al-Takfir wal Hijra murdered thinkers who publicly criticized the group’s radical ideology. Tanzim Al-Jihad, founded by Al-Qaeda’s second husband, Ayman Al-Zawahri — a member of the Brotherhood, assassinated President Anwar el-Sadat in 1981 after signing a peace treaty with Israel. These and other groups affiliated with the Brotherhood have also carried out terrorist attacks against tourists and religious minorities.</p>



<p id="e2d1">The Brotherhood also maintains links with terrorist organizations established by leaders within their “international network” outside Egypt. According to the report from 9 Bedford Row, Osama bin Laden, Ayman Al-Zawahiri and Aballah Yusuf Azzam, the three founders of al-Qaeda, were prominent members of the “international network”.</p>



<p id="e2d1">As in Egypt, the Saudi King Abdullah banned the Muslim Brotherhood as a terrorist organization in 2014, as did the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Syria and Russia.</p>



<p id="e2d1">The highest Islamic scholars of Saudi Arabia have officially justified and confirmed this decision again in 2020, pointing out that the Muslim Brotherhood does not reflect Islamic values, but only promotes riot, violence and terrorism.</p>



<p id="a658">What has the Muslim Brotherhood, which has been and still is diligently supported by the West, achieved in Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, Yemen, Sudan besides civil wars, devastation and the emergence of ISIS?</p>



<p id="e8bc">Is it really only supported by the West to bring so-called “democracy” to these Islamic countries? Isn’t there a bigger, less “benevolent” concept behind this?</p>



<p><em>Anna Sacher is an Austria-based Independent Political Analyst and Commentator. She often writes for Millichronicle. She tweets under <a href="https://twitter.com/RealthingUlli">@RealthingUlli</a>.</em></p>



<p><em>Waleed Alghamdi is a Saudi-based researcher and analyst. He writes about Muslim Brotherhood and other Islamist factions. He tweets under <a href="https://twitter.com/nofr2021">@nofr2021</a>.</em></p>
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<blockquote class="wp-block-quote"><p>Qatari Government and Qatar Foundation is using university grants to fund radical ideologies&#8230;</p></blockquote>



<p>The Qatari project with American Universities to nurture and educate their own journos in America gave us Qatari loyalists. From AJ+ to Karen Attiah and others who I will be covering alongside <a href="https://twitter.com/305local">Sharon Collins</a> throughout this article and a series of videos on Sharon&#8217;s account.</p>



<p>Qatar Foundation&#8217;s Grants and Funding to the North West University is done in ways to avoid registering the North West University as a foreign agent in the service of the State of Qatar. I hope senator <a href="https://twitter.com/tedcruz">Ted Cruz</a> and governor <a href="https://twitter.com/GovAbbott">Governor Greg Abbott</a> can shed some light on why this is happening.</p>



<p>The NU-Q (North West University of Qatar), but Qatar has been funding the North West University since 2004, almost 16 years of foreign funding that went unnoticed.</p>



<p>Qatari activities in the United States wasn&#8217;t limited to North West University, in fact Qatar Foundation (QF), spent at least $1.5 billion since 2012 to fund a range of educational initiatives at 28 universities across America, making the state of Qatar one of the education system&#8217;s most prolific foreign funders, according to information obtained by the Lawfare Project, a U.S.-based legal group that has been petitioning universities to disclose information about their financial relationship with Qatar.</p>



<p>Georgetown has received more than $415 in foreign funding since 2012 and Texas A&amp;M has received $285 million since 2014 hope Mayor <a href="https://twitter.com/Georgetown">Mureil Bowser Georgetown University</a> can explain how a tremendous amount of foreign money is going unmonitored.</p>



<p>All U.S. colleges and universities are required by law to report all foreign sources of funding of $250,000 or more, if Georgetown and Texas A&amp;M did not fully disclose these foreign sources of funding, they should face legal action and financial penalties, yet they didn&#8217;t.</p>



<p>Texas A&amp;M university gets $76 million each year to operate in Qatar. </p>



<p>Qatari Government and Qatar Foundation is using university grants to fund radical ideologies, pro Islamist, socialism, antisemitism and anti capitalism on campuses since 2004.</p>



<p>Judicial Watch and the Zachor Legal Institute are battling in court for the truth about how Qatar got Texas A&amp;M into setting up a campus in a country run by a government known for its promotion and funding of terrorism, partnership with extremist groups.</p>



<p>For years, the government of Qatar has been financing an extensive influence operation in America. By funding think tanks, activist organizations, mosques and now American universities and education programs. The influence operation has engaged in political activities that benefit Qatar while inculcating virulent antisemitism, Pro Islamist that continues to spread in American society.</p>



<p>Qatar is the top supporter of the Muslim Brotherhood and terrorist groups like Hamas and al-Qaeda affiliates, among others. Al-Jazeera, one of the most influential Islamist extremist propaganda outlets in the world, is influencing American Universities.</p>



<p>Since 2012, Qatar has paid approximately $1.5 billion to 28 universities in the form of monetary &#8220;gifts and contracts&#8221; and we are supposed to believe that? This support comes through the Qatar National Research Fund and its parent organization, the Qatar Foundation QF.</p>



<p>QF was founded in 1995 by Hamad Bin Khalifa, Emir of Qatar, and chaired by Mozah al-Missned, is registered with the U.S. government as a foreign principal since at least 2006, in accordance with FARA.</p>



<p>The registration indicates that it is supervised, directed, controlled, financed and subsidized by a foreign government, foreign political party, or other foreign principal, namely Qatar.</p>



<p>Apart from the support given to universities in the United States, QF spends approximately $405 million a year to cover the expenses for six American universities that have opened campuses in Qatar. Northwestern, Texas A&amp;M, Georgetown, Virginia Commonwealth, Cornell and Carnegie Mellon. </p>



<p><a href="https://twitter.com/mohe_sa">Saudi Ministry of Education,</a><a href="https://twitter.com/MOEducationUAE"> UAE Ministry of Education</a> should stop sending students to these universities FFS.</p>



<p>In addition to its spending on universities, Qatar funds training programs for American students in schools across the United States. Qatar Foundation International (“QFI”), the U.S.- based subsidiary of QF, has spent more than $30 million funding programs in public schools.</p>



<p>QFI was formed for the purpose of advancing the vision of Qatar, Turkey and the Muslim Brotherhood. Schools that accept money from QFI are required to give over a degree of access and control to the Qatari organization, seriously let that sinks in.</p>



<p>QFI and QF are inextricably linked, not just to each other, but also to the Qatari government. QFI’s Executive Director and ghost writer for Khashoggi Maggie Mitchell Salem, stated in 2018 “QF’s CEO Hind Al-Thani and her mom, QF Chairperson Moza are my bosses”.</p>



<p>Additionally, QFI has received significant funding from QF. According to QFI’s submissions to the IRS, it received over $10 million from QF between 2010 and 2012. Notably, when reporting QFI’s transfer of cash assets, these forms refer to QF as &#8220;a related party&#8221;.</p>



<p>Surprisingly Jamal Khashoggi&#8217;s Editor Karen Attiah was a Student at North West University at the hight of Qatari funding of the college and in sync with the Qatari government agendas of bashing enemies of Qatar and the Muslim Brotherhood.</p>



<p>In June 2019, Duke University held an immersion program for teachers of grades 6-12 titled “Dimensions of the Middle East”, more like Muslim Brotherhood’s version of the Middle East.</p>



<p>This teacher training program aimed to train 40 teachers hand-selected by QFI, which provided more than $111,000 in funding. Teachers applied for this program by registering for an account on Qatar Foundation International’s Grants Management Portal, <a href="https://qfi.fluidreview.com">FluidReview</a>. </p>



<p>The teachers invited to participate in the program were ostensibly selected by QFI, rather than Duke making QFI control the Selection process.</p>



<p>Candidates (selected by Qatar) for this program teachers from school districts ranging in location from North Carolina, Illinois and Virginia – first had to commit to QFI that they will create and submit a Middle East curriculum based on the content provided.</p>



<p>In fact, the curriculum appears to minimize and downplay, if not outright ignore, the history and contributions of non-Muslim people in the Middle East while exaggerating the role and influence of the Ottoman Empire.</p>



<p>Notably, some of the “specialists” chosen by Duke (actually by Qatar) to present the program were also involved in a controversial March 2019 conference, “Conflict Over Gaza People, Politics and Possibilities” which is being investigated by the Department of Education for anti-Israel bias and for featuring anti-Semitic songs. </p>



<p>The Education Department launched an investigation into how $235,000 in federal grants were used to fund a series of anti-Israel events.</p>



<p>Organized by Duke University and UNC that featured speakers and events tied to Palestinian terrorist groups, and several of the events held during the conference were organized by Students for Justice in Palestine (“SJP”), a group that has a history of distributing anti-Semitic propaganda on many American college campuses, and thereby fostering unsafe environments for Jewish students. Additionally, several speakers at the conference were videotaped discussing how they held meetings with members of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (“PFLP”), which was designated a Foreign Terrorist Organization by the U.S. Secretary of State in 1997. </p>



<p>As noted above, at all relevant times, Duke received funding from Qatar.</p>



<p>On December 3, 2019, Duke entered into a Resolution Agreement with the Education Department’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR) to &#8220;resolve a complaint alleging that Duke discriminated on the basis of national origin (“shared ancestry, Jewish”) in connection with the anti-Israel events, Supra. Pursuant to the Resolution Agreement, Duke agreed to issue a statement that it does not tolerate anti-Semitic harassment or discrimination, and would provide a description of the forms of anti-Semitism that can manifest in the University environment.</p>



<p>Duke also agreed to host a meeting to discuss harassment or discrimination (not limited to anti-Semitic harassment), and to include a component on discrimination (not limited to anti-Semitic harassment) in its training modules and orientation sessions through 2021 – for two years. </p>



<p>Notably, the Resolution Agreement neither identifies the underlying anti-Semitic events and conduct that gave rise to the complaint against Duke, nor addresses in any way the influence of foreign funding on the discrimination and harassment experienced on campus. Providing a “description” of anti-Semitism is a far cry from taking concrete action to prevent it.</p>



<p>The Duke-UNC Consortium for Middle East Studies the “Consortium” or “CMES” is a collaboration between the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (“UNC”) and Duke University.</p>



<p>It encourages collaboration and cooperation in all aspects of Middle Eastern studies across their two campuses and across disciplines. According to the Consortium’s website, this is clearly Qataris rewriting history of the Middle East to serve the Muslim Brotherhood&#8217;s agendas.</p>



<p>On August 29, 2019, the Department of Education expressed concerns regarding UNC’s use of Title VI funds vis-à-vis the Consortium’s activities, including its activities for elementary and secondary school students and teachers.</p>



<p>In a letter to Dr. Terry Magnuson, UNC’s Vice Chancellor for Research, Assistant Secretary Robert King wrote: &#8220;The Duke-UNC CMES appears to lack balance as it offers very few, if any, programs focused on the historic discrimination faced by, and current circumstances of religious minorities in the Middle East, including Christians, Jews, Baha&#8217;is, Yadizis, Kurds, Druze, and others. Also, in your activities for elementary and secondary students and teachers, there is a considerable emphasis placed on the understanding the positive aspects of Islam (more like Islamist ideology, while there is an absolute absence of any similar focus on the positive aspects of Christianity, Judaism, or any other religion or belief system in the Middle East&#8221;.</p>



<p>This lack of balance of perspectives is troubling and strongly suggests that Duke-UNC CMES is not meeting legal requirement that National Resource Centers, in fact I can see that Qataris are reshaping opinions of future generations in favor of the Islamist ideology.</p>



<p>Qatar is building an army of journalists and politicians with no true understanding of the political structure and conflicts history of the region, the history and ideological risks that comes from embracing the Muslim Brotherhood and its offshoots.</p>



<p>In 2008, Northwestern University established a campus in Qatar. Funded by the Qatar Foundation and overseen by Northwestern’s Medill School of Journalism, Northwestern University in Qatar (“NU-Q”) focuses on journalism and communications.</p>



<p>The Medill School of Journalism advertises NU-Q as their “onsite presence in the Middle East” and offers American students opportunities to experience semester or journalism residency programs in Qatar, or pursue their entire degree there.</p>



<p>In 2013, NU-Q and Al-Jazeera Network signed a Memorandum of Understanding (“MOU”) to “facilitate collaboration and knowledge transfer between two of Qatar’s foremost media organizations.&#8221;</p>



<p>According to the press release announcing the MOU: The agreement, which deepens ties between the two organizations that have worked together since NU-Q’s inception, will allow professionals and budding journalists from both sides to benefit from the combined expertise of the two institutions through joint research and strategic studies projects, training workshops, a co-designed lecture series, internships and faculty contributions as well as journalist-exchange programs.</p>



<p>In addition, NU-Q will conduct consultations with Al Jazeera leadership based on its faculty research interests and expertise in the American media industry, as the news network moves forward with its planning for Al Jazeera America but ended up with AJ+.</p>



<p>A recent example of the so-called scholarship coming from NU-Q is a tweet from one of the university’s journalism professors, Justin Martin, which used the anniversary of 9/11 to downplay the horrific nature of that terrorist attack.</p>



<p>Martin has a long history of expressing support for the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (“BDS”) Movement against Israel, and has written about how Al-Jazeera can make itself appear more credible to American audiences.</p>



<p>Unsurprisingly, he has been rewarded with two grants from QF’s National Priorities Research Program, totaling over $1.3 million.</p>



<p>In connection with preparing this memorandum, The Lawfare Project contacted Canary Mission, an organization that documents individuals and organizations that promote hatred of the USA, Israel and Jews on college campuses.</p>



<p>Canary Mission is in the process of, inter alia, tracing the anti-Semitic effects of NU-Q’s programs by identifying the publicly available content its students and graduates have put forth in various media, including Al Jazeera, AJ+, TRT, the BBC and other MB platforms.</p>



<p>Qatar had its claws in the American education system for almost 18 years, I urge countries to pull their scholarship students from those States and Universities until they can prove that they are not influenced by Qatar and Islamist extremist groups.</p>



<p>I call on people from those states to push for transparency on the subject and end the Qatari influence of the education system and their own children. Now you know what are you going to do?</p>



<p><em>Khaled Homoud Alshareef holds PhD in Business and he earned Masters in Philosophy. He often writes about Islamism, Islamist factions and modern Terrorism. He tweets under <a href="https://twitter.com/0khalodi0">@0khalodi0</a>.</em></p>
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