I'm posting this, mainly to make the point that Qatar seem like some bad dudes so to speak. They are ones to watch out for among Radical Islam. United Arab Emirates might be acceptable in comparison. Some of these proxy wars going on over there such as in Libya has had UAE on one side, Turkey/Qatar on the other. Turkey even has a base in Qatar and so do we, perhaps "sharing" is a more apt word.
Lengthy article, one doesn't need to read it all; just a warning about this country.
Are US Schools Turning a Blind Eye to Radical Qatari Preachers?
http://www.voanews.com/content/are-us-schools-turning-a-blind-eye-to-qatari-preachers/3311926.html
A parade of radical Islamist clerics using the mosque at Qatar’s Education City to propagate religious intolerance - including demonizing Christians and Jews - is drawing mounting criticism from six American universities that maintain satellite branches on the sprawling campus located on the outskirts of the Qatari capital Doha.
All six universities — Georgetown, Northwestern, Texas A&M, Cornell, Carnegie Mellon and Virginia Commonwealth — have speech and expression policies on their home campuses in the U.S. which effectively prohibit calls for the annihilation of whole groups of people based on their religious affiliation or ethnicity, something preachers being hosted by the mosque are notorious for urging.
The roster of preachers at the mosque in Education City is overseen by the quasi-governmental Qatar Foundation founded by Sheikha Mozah bint Nasser, the second wife of the former emir of Qatar and mother of the current ruler. It includes Mudassir Ahmed, who urged Allah in his March 18 sermon at the mosque to “kill the infidels… Count them in number and do not spare one.”
The emirate’s ruling family has been eager to leverage its oil and natural gas-based wealth into regional and international influence, and to establish Qatar as a modern state and Western ally.
But Qatar’s adherence to Wahhabism has thrown up contradictions, often challenging the ruling family to balance cultural conservatism and change. Many of the 2,000-member Qatari royal family are known to resent Sheikha Mozah’s clout and her leadership in trying to transition Qatar into a knowledge based economy, say analysts.
Is the World Cup scheduled for Qatar? It should be boycotted.
