The statement must be translated. There is misunderstanding, especially on Free Republic, of what the man said and what was not said.
The tendency is to lump all Arab Muslims into one pile. That is like lumping all Christians into one like pile, including those congregations that permit snake handling.
The Qatari is lumping his state sponsored funding of terror with individual sponsorship of terror. The rich pathetically fundamentalist old Saudi is not the Saudi government. A governmental prince is equated with the rich fanatic even though there is no equality. Likewise, the Qatari royal terror sponsor is not a Saudi royal non sponsor even though both are royal and both are Muslim.
I know it is hard for Rio Linde Freepers to grasp the distinction, but it exists.
Qatar paid 1 billion to terrorists to get back some loser members of its royal fam. That is the issue.
“...I know it is hard for Rio Linde Freepers to grasp the distinction....”
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You’re very confused. The Linde river is in Russia, not California. And there are few FReepers living along the banks of the Linde. ;-)