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		<title>Qatar Royal Family &#8220;Tricked&#8221; into Giving Money to Al Qaeda</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Dec 2013 17:21:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A member of the Qatari royal family tipped off Khalid Shaikh Mohammed]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div id="attachment_213920" style="width: 460px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/casablanca-your-winnings.jpg"><img class="size-medium wp-image-213920" alt="Shocked, shocked" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/casablanca-your-winnings-450x337.jpg" width="450" height="337" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Shocked, shocked</p></div>
<p>After Qatar&#8217;s involvement with terrorists in Libya and Syria, its blatant endorsement of Hamas and its backing of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt does <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/islamic-charity-officials-gave-millions-to-al-qaeda-us-says/2013/12/22/e0c53ad6-69b8-11e3-a0b9-249bbb34602c_story.html?wprss=rss_national">the Washington Post really believe the nonsense </a>it&#8217;s reporting?</p>
<p>And the story carefully avoids discussing <a href="http://www.treasury.gov/press-center/press-releases/pages/jl2249.aspx">whether the Al Qaeda backers </a>were able to use their positions to move money from the Qatari royals to Al Qaeda. But here&#8217;s a sample of their work&#8230;</p>
<blockquote><p>In 2013, Nu&#8217;aymi ordered the transfer of nearly $600,000 to al-Qa&#8217;ida via al-Qa&#8217;ida&#8217;s representative in Syria. Nu&#8217;aymi reportedly oversaw the transfer of over $2 million per month to al-Qa&#8217;ida in Iraq for a period of time.  He also served as an interlocutor between these Qatari nationals and al-Qa&#8217;ida in Iraq leaders.</p>
<p>During political unrest in Yemen, Humayqani reportedly assisted AQAP in gaining a foothold and safe haven in al-Bayda&#8217; Governorate, Yemen and as of mid-2011 served as the acting AQAP amir there.</p></blockquote>
<p>So we&#8217;re talking about more than just a backer here&#8230; but here&#8217;s how the Washington Post reports it&#8230;</p>
<blockquote><p>When Qatar’s royal family was looking for advice on charitable giving, it turned to a well-regarded professor named Abd al-Rahman al-Nu’aymi. The 59-year-old educator had a stellar résumé that included extensive fundraising experience and years of work with international human rights groups.</p>
<p>But one apparent accomplishment was omitted from the list: According to U.S. officials, Nu’aymi also was working secretly as a financier for al-Qaeda, funneling millions of dollars to the terrorist group’s affiliates in Syria and Iraq even as he led campaigns in Europe for greater freedoms for Muslims.</p></blockquote>
<p>I&#8217;m sure Qatar&#8217;s royal family had absolutely no idea. Isn&#8217;t that the way it always is? US officials always know more about who&#8217;s involved in terrorism than the local governments who never know that Mo or Abdul was really Al Qaeda. They&#8217;re always shocked that gambling is going on here.</p>
<blockquote><p>Nu’aymi was one of two men identified by Treasury Department officials last week as major financial backers of al-Qaeda and its regional chapters across the Middle East&#8230; Both men have served as advisers to government-backed foundations in Qatar and have held high-profile positions with international human rights groups.</p></blockquote>
<p>Two men. What are the odds?</p>
<p>Somehow Qatar&#8217;s ruling family was tricked into bringing on board two Al Qaeda backers as advisers. But they had no clue.</p>
<blockquote><p>Despite attempts by gulf states to crack down on jihadist financial networks, former and current U.S. officials have described a surge in private support for Islamist extremists in Syria, particularly in Qatar and Kuwait.</p></blockquote>
<p>They&#8217;re trying very hard. Just look at their luxurious revolving door terrorist rehab. Also look at all the weapons they&#8217;re sending to <del>Al Qaeda</del> the moderate freedom fighters.</p>
<p>Is it their fault that they keep turning to Al Qaeda backers to advise them?</p>
<blockquote><p>The Obama administration has repeatedly urged both countries to rein in private donations to jihadists, while acknowledging that new tactics, including the widespread use of Twitter and other social media, make fundraising more difficult to track.</p></blockquote>
<p>Also sometimes your advisers turn out to be Al Qaeda backers even though you had no idea. It&#8217;s social media&#8217;s fault.</p>
<blockquote><p>The administration’s action last week named both men as “specially designated global terrorists,” a determination that allows U.S. officials to freeze their financial assets and bar American citizens and companies from doing business with them. Treasury Department documents alleged that both men used their charity work to conceal efforts to raise millions of dollars for al-Qaeda and other terrorist groups, from Syria to the Horn of Africa.</p></blockquote>
<p>And now I&#8217;m sure our Qatari allies will jump to help now that they realized their tragic mistake of using Al Qaeda backers.</p>
<blockquote><p>The naming of the two officials raised eyebrows in Qatar and Yemen, where supporters viewed the allegations as politically motivated.</p></blockquote>
<p>Oh my, not the raised eyebrows and the politically motivated allegations. One sentence. Two journalistic cliches. No waiting.</p>
<blockquote><p>Both men have been prominent critics of U.S. counter­terrorism policies, particularly the use of drone strikes against terrorism suspects.</p></blockquote>
<p>And you can understand why when the drones are aimed at your pals.</p>
<blockquote><p>Nu’aymi, a Qatar University professor and former president of the Qatar Football Association, was a founding member of a prominent charity — the Sheik Eid bin Mohammad al-Thani Charitable Foundation, named for a member of the country’s ruling family. In recent years, Nu’aymi had gained renown as an international activist, serving as president of Alkarama, a Geneva-based human rights organization that works closely with the United Nations and major international activist groups to advocate for Muslims’ civil rights.</p>
<p>Alkarama lobbies on behalf of Islamist detainees around the world, and it accuses Western and Arab governments of suppressing the rights of political groups that promote Islamic rule for the Middle East.</p></blockquote>
<p>Awful. How can anyone think of suppressing the rights of decent moderate folks who just want to suppress the rights of everyone who isn&#8217;t a Muslim man?</p>
<p>But it&#8217;s not<a href="http://abcnews.go.com/WNT/story?id=129838"> like the Qatari royal family has links to Al Qaeda</a> or September 11.</p>
<blockquote><p>American officials say the FBI and CIA just missed capturing the al Qaeda leader believed to have organized the 9/11 attacks — and now believed to be planning a new attack against Americans — because it appears he was protected and tipped off by a member of the royal family in Qatar, Abdullah Bin Khalid al-Thani.</p>
<p>American authorities say Khalid Shaikh Mohammed masterminded behind the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks for Osama bin Laden, and is now considered bin Laden&#8217;s second in command.</p>
<p>&#8220;Certainly it is well-documented that there is one member of the Qatar royal family that supports al Qaeda,&#8221; said Rohan Gunaratna, the author of the book Inside Al Qaeda and professor at St. Andrews University in Scotland.</p>
<p>According to American intelligence officials, Abdallah bin Khalid al-Thani, a member of the Qatari royal family tipped off Mohammed. He is listed on government Web sites as the current minister of the Interior for Qatar and is known as a radical Islamic fundamentalist with ties to al Qaeda.</p>
<p>Mohammed is believed to have fled Qatar with a passport provided by that country&#8217;s government. He is also believed to have been given a home in Qatar as well as a job at the Department of Public Water Works. Officials also said bin Laden himself visited Abdallah bin Khalid al-Thani in Qatar between the years of 1996 and 2000.</p></blockquote>
<p>I blame social media.</p>
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		<title>My Princeton Experience</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Mar 2010 04:02:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Nonie Darwish]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Why do Muslims become "the offended group" when Muslim hate speech and violence is exposed?]]></description>
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<p>On March 24, I gave a lecture at Princeton University sponsored by the Whig-Clio Society, the Tory and the Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America, CAMERA. I was previously scheduled to speak in November, but that appearance was canceled after pressure from the Muslim groups on campus.</p>
<p>My experience at Princeton was positive and similar to many campuses that I have visited through the years. I often receive emails from students who tell me they left with a lot to think about. After my speech, I always try to pick Muslims from the audience in the Q and A period since I enjoy challenging questions. The audience is sharply divided, representative of today’s sharp divisions in American society. The majority came to learn about the topic, in this case: “Human and Women’s Rights Under Sharia.” That group is very concerned about those who are demanding Sharia in the West and the implications of such an oppressive law on freedoms and the Bill of Rights. This group is usually quiet, often give me a standing ovation and wait in line to ask ask questions and thank me. I often get one or two Muslim students who whisper to me: “I agree with what you say”. At the Princeton event, there was a UN representative who came from NY especially to hear me and thanked me for my presentation afterward. There was also a professor from a nearby college who also thanked me and invited me to speak at his campus.</p>
<p>There is also always a group in the audience that consists of members of the Muslim Student Association, who are more concerned to discredit me than hear me, regardless of how carefully I document what I say or how many times I state that I am not hear to offend the good and peace loving Muslims, but to speak about the ideology of political and legal Islam. To this group, the way Sharia law and hate speech is practiced in the Muslim world today is irrelevant. They belittle it as untrue and deny any connection between hate education and violent jihad. Any exposure of human rights violations is quickly attributed to misunderstanding and misinterpretation. Speakers who are concerned like myself are accused of &#8220;offending Muslims&#8221; personally. It does not matter how many TV video clips cursing and condemning Jews and non-Muslims on Arab TV exist, their response is always: “I never saw such a thing on Arab TV,” and that Islam is a religion of peace. Such clips are not to be judged as offensive to Jews, Christians or women. Exposing them to the West makes Muslims the victims. It is Muslims who become &#8220;the offended group&#8221; when Muslim hate speech is exposed.</p>
<p>Then there is a third group who are the defenders of the &#8220;offended groups.&#8221; These are well-intentioned Americans who care about spreading harmony and understanding between the student body regardless of what is happening in the outside world. To those students the world revolves around campus life and if Muslims and others get along on campus then the rest of the world should get along to. What is going on in far away 54 Muslim countries is thus irrelevant. To them images of little children being taught to curse, hate and commit violence in the name of Islam is debatable and explainable. The attitude is: &#8220;Who are we in America to judge what is going on under Sharia law in Saudi   Arabia, Egypt, Iran or Pakistan?&#8221; To this group it is easier to blame the messenger who is accused of exaggeration, lying or being hateful. That messenger has rocked the boat for the &#8220;offended groups.&#8221; Never mind that this offended group at Princeton has called me Nazi, Ku Klux Klan, etc.</p>
<p>In an article by Jason Jung, the Daily Princetonian, on March 25, entitled “Darwish criticizes Islamic Law,” I was accused of watering down my speech, which is not true. My speech is the same. Mr. Jung quoted Saud Al-Thani, president of the Muslim Students Association, who said: “I found many examples of inaccuracy. She talked about the book of law as something that is fixed, when political leaders in the Muslim world do not follow exactly the same laws as their predecessors. Law is flexible.”</p>
<p>Mr. Jung did not follow up by asking Al-Thani for one example of the &#8220;inaccuracy&#8221; I gave. Also Al-Thani believes that Islamic law is flexible and changing. I would have liked a follow up question asking where did Al-Thani see the change in Sharia law? What Islamic law books exactly document such flexibility and change? A law by nature is a statute; it is either voided or replaced by another law. I presume that Al-Thani means that some Muslim governments look the other way in the degree of application of the law, but that does not mean that it is not a threat on the head of every citizen of the Muslim State that might take the life of a person in a whim.</p>
<p>For example, leaving Islam is punishable by death in all schools of Sharia, no exception, and we have all seen the Afghani man, a couple of years ago who was on trial and sentenced to death for leaving Islam. How does Al-Thani see the law of apostasy being flexible in Muslim countries? Can he give me one example of one Muslim country where the rights of Muslims to openly leave their religion are protected and where a former Muslim can live in relative safety while openly practicing a different religion?</p>
<p>In the article, Al-Thani said that he lived in Qatar for nine years, and that he hadn’t seen the videos I featured. I did not create such videos, they are all taken from main stream Arab TV channels in Egypt, Saudi, Syria, Jordan, etc. Princeton students are smart kids, and to deny a well documented phenomenon on the basis that “I have never seen it” is remarkable.</p>
<p>The Arab world today can no longer hide its intense incitement to hate and jihad. It is all over the Internet and has grave consequences on Christian, Jewish and other minorities in the Middle  East. It would have been more credible for the Muslim Student Association to actively stand against such an epidemic of cruel insightful and hateful jihadist propaganda on Arab TV. Where are their condemnation letters to Arab TV stations, to Muslim Imams, to Al Azhar Islamic University, telling them to end the hate and incitement? Where are their demonstrations against the stoning and flogging of women in the name of Islam happening today? Instead, the MSA chooses silence and to demonize speakers like myself who love their culture of origin and want to rid it of such atrocities and human tragedy. Again, the MSA, like the Muslim Brotherhood, wants to silence speech instead of facing reality. Supporters of the &#8220;offended group&#8221; continue playing the game of political correctness to accommodate certain groups. They do not want to rock the boat on the perfect life on campus with facts outside in far away places.</p>
<p>The article also mentioned Ahsan Barkatullah, a Muslim originally from Bangladesh, who commented about the TV clips I showed and said: “Does an isolated quote mean anything? Why doesn’t she give us statistics on what percentage of children in Arab countries have seen those type of clips? I never saw any of that.”</p>
<p>Again, denial on the basis of “I never saw it” or the unbelievable request of giving statistics of how many Arab children watch those hateful programs on TV. I would like to invite Barkatullah to watch Nahoul and Farfour on Arab TV. He also added, “Ms. Darwish does not have a Ph.D &#8230; When she makes comments, she has no authority.” He then added: “I’m not saying you need a Ph.D., but a person like me has personal experience as well. Doesn&#8217;t that mean I am the authority?” My response to this is: One does not need a Ph.D. to understand the meaning of &#8220;Kill apostates and adulterers,&#8221; especially after seeing 5,000 reported honor killings annually in the Muslim world. One does not need a Ph.D. to fear for his/her life from Sharia, which encourages vigilante street justice against adulterers and apostates. Tell that to Salman Rushdie or Ayan Hirsi Ali.</p>
<p>Barkatullah also stated: “Religion is like literature, you can interpret it in a hundred different ways.” This is exactly what scares me about Muslim scriptures, where moderate Muslims ignore the violent commandments, contradictions and vagueness. They say these scriptures are &#8220;misunderstood.&#8221; At the same time, the problem is that many Muslims take such violent commandments at face value. That leaves apostates and the victims of Islamic jihad at the mercy of Sharia enforcers who eagerly take matters into their own hands.</p>
<p>We can continue the defensiveness, denial and blame game, but we can also accept the challenge, grow and change. Human rights are not negotiable even in the name of God. They are sacred and, in my view, more divine than scriptures. It is a sad day in America when obvious violations to human and women’s rights are ignored &#8212; and speaking out against them is considered hate speech.</p>
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