Philadelphia – November 29, 2021 – Documents discovered by the Middle East Forum (MEF) reveal the Qatari government’s extensive use of “humanitarian” aid to distribute close to $1 billion to Islamist and jihadi organizations around the world.
The dataset consists of over 45,000 grants distributed by the Sheikh Eid Bin Mohammad Al Thani Charitable Association, also known as the Eid Charity. The funds went to 288 Islamic organizations between 2004 and 2019 and totaled over US$770 million.
The Carnegie Endowment for International Peace has described Eid Charity as “probably the biggest and most influential activist Salafi-controlled relief organization in the world.” Its founder, Abdulrahman al-Nuaimi, was named as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist (SDGT) by the U.S. Department of the Treasury on December 18, 2013, because of his close ties to Al-Qaeda.
https://www.meforum.org/62809/mef-reveals-qatari-funding-for-jihadists
