We Know Who’s Buying US College Campuses—the Senate Must Act | Opinion

Newsweek ^ | July 9, 2026 | Anila Ali and Dalia Ziada

[MinorityRepublican]

We are two Muslim women who have each had a death warrant, a fatwa, placed on our heads—not for committing a crime, but for opposing the extremists who claim to speak for our faith.

One of us, Anila, came to America from Pakistan and built a life here as a public school teacher.

After September 11, Anila founded an organization to empower Muslim women and confront extremism. The other, Dalia, fled Egypt after Hamas’ attacks on Israel on October 7, 2023.

Dalia was targeted for opposing the Muslim Brotherhood and Hamas, and has spent the years since tracing the money that radical movements use to buy influence in the West.

Though we have come to America from different countries, and to this work from different directions, we reached the same conclusion: The ideological transformation of American college campuses is not organic. It is funded, and the funding is too easily hidden.

We say this from personal experience. We have sat with Muslim students who felt they couldn’t speak honestly without losing their friends. We have watched Jewish students pull back from campus life because they no longer felt safe. We have seen faculty we respect go quiet on subjects they once engaged with openly, calculating what dissent might cost them.

Qatar alone has sent billions of dollars to American universities since 2001, more than any other foreign country, including China. Qatar’s involvement should not be taken lightly, given its longtime backing of the Muslim Brotherhood, Hamas and the Islamic Revolutionary regime in Iran. Qatar is also the home of Al Jazeera, the premier propaganda machine that has been fueling hatred toward Israel and Western democratic values over the past three decades.

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[Nateman]

Trying to reform Islam is like polishing a turd. Let the ones who don’t like it become Christian.

[SuperLuminal]

Really old news...
American universities have been prime targets since the 1980s...
The flood of ragheads into the university systems began in the late 1970s and early 1980s...

[Right_Wing_Madman]

for opposing the extremists who claim to speak for our faith.

The past 1400 years says the "extremists" are the mean and you are the outlier.

[FreedomForce]

Anyone who wears a hijab without being forced to is an extremist, IMO. One of the authors of that article wears one. Anything of that sort needed to rejected in the U.S.

[UnwashedPeasant]

Qatar is using asymmetrical warfare to destroy us from within while pretending to be an ally.

As of 2026, the population of Qatar is about 350,000 citizens and 3,002,000 foreigners.