Qatar is a tiny, oil-rich kingdom in the Persian Gulf, and is home to just 300,000 citizens and only about half the size of Lake Ontario in size.
Due to its immense oil reserves, it is fantastically wealthy and has used those funds to export its radical ideology around the world, including in Canada. Qatar’s monarchs are adherents of the Muslim Brotherhood, an extremist Islamic ideology that was founded in Egypt about 100 years ago, and which is one of the most influential radical Islamic movements in the world. Hamas, the Palestinian terrorist group which committed the October 7, 2023 atrocities in Israel, is a part of the Muslim Brotherhood network.
The Muslim Brotherhood’s ultimate goal is the establishment of a global Islamic superstate based on Sharia, or Islamic religious law.
And according to a new study, Canada is fertile ground for helping to promote that goal, and a new report has unmasked Qatar’s significant role in helping to promote these ideals within Canada.
The Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism & Policy, or ISGAP, recently released a 160-page study, “We Stand on Guard For Thee? The growing influence of the Muslim Brotherhood on politics, academia, and civil society in Canada,” which extensively documented the toxic alliance between Qatar, the Muslim Brotherhood, and a growing list of Canadian Muslim organizations, universities, and more.
As detailed by ISGAP, Qatar operates a series of charitable organizations, including Qatar Charity and Eid Charity, the Qatari kingdom has funnelled millions of dollars to Canadian Muslim groups. These include the Muslim Association of Canada (MAC), which was audited by the Canada Revenue Agency (CRA), which accused it of being “an apparent Hamas support network.”
Another group identified by ISGAP for its alleged ties to Qatar, the National Council of Canadian Muslims (NCCM), is, according to the report, “directly related to its parent organization, CAIR USA, a self-described Muslim Brotherhood front organization, which was founded by members of the Islamic Association for Palestine (IAP), with direct ties to Hamas.”
One group, the Islamic Center of Quebec, in 2015 formally requested an infusion of between $24 and $30 million from Qatar Charity, an arm of the Qatari monarchy. As noted by ISGAP, such large requests suggest “a broader network of potential Qatari influence within Canadian Muslim communities.”
Qatar’s financial ties are not limited just to Muslim groups in Canada. McGill University’s Institute of Islamic Studies received a $1.25 million donation from Qatar. Even that pales in comparison to other investments from the Middle Eastern kingdom.
In 2001, the College of the North Atlantic (CNA), based in Newfoundland and Labrador, received a massive contract valued at about $500 million to help it establish a branch in Qatar. ISGAP notes that this infusion represented the single largest international contract ever given to a Canadian post-secondary institution.
While ISGAP’s report may come as a shock to some, it appears to be widely known in other circles. As the late Canadian Muslim leader Tarek Fatah told parliament in 2015, “there is not a single Muslim who doesn’t know what is going on, not just in mosques, but in every academic institution that we have from urban high schools to universities.”
ISGAP’s research is extensive, and reflects what has already been long documented and known by counter-terrorism experts for some time. For Canadians, the question is whether their news media will dare to report on this damning investigation, or choose to censor it and hide it from public view.
