Qatar involved in financing dubious Islamist charities in the UK

The Times reveals British-based Al Rayan Bank controlled by Qatar is providing financial services to several British organisations linked to promoting Islamist causes.

LONDON - British-based Al Rayan Bank controlled by Qatar is providing financial services to several British organisations linked to Islamists, according to The Times few days after New York Times unveiled a report that allegedly implicated Doha last May in a bomb attack in Bosaso whose port is managed by an Emirati company.

The Times said that Al Rayan Bank was providing banking services to 15 controversial Islamic organisations, including at least four – a mosque and three charities - which have had their accounts with western banks frozen or closed in a security clampdown.

The latest report exposed Qatar’s hidden agenda of backing Islamists worldwide to propagate their ‘extremist’ ideology through financing their charities.

Qatar is the subject of a two-year Saudi-led economic embargo including bans on direct air, land and sea travel between the boycotting nations and Qatar, as well as sanctions after accusing Doha of sponsoring terrorism.

Although Qatar has repeatedly denied backing or funding terror groups, western diplomats have accused it of allowing the funding of some Sunni extremists, including al-Qaeda’s branch in Syria.

Among Al Rayan Bank’s customers are a charity banned in the United States as a terrorist entity, groups that promote hardline preachers and London’s Finsbury Park Mosque whose long-term trustee is a Hamas leader.

Al Rayan’s chief executive until April, Sultan Choudhury, was also an unpaid director for seven years until 2016 of the British arm of a global religious institute whose speakers and instructors have included advocates of child marriage, female circumcision and the death penalty for adultery and apostasy, said The Times.

Al Rayan, Britain’s oldest and largest Islamic bank, is 70 per cent owned by Qatar’s second-largest bank, Masraf Al Rayan, whose biggest stakeholders are institutions run by the Qatari state while the other 30 per cent is owned by an investment arm of the emirate’s sovereign wealth fund.

Interpal, a charity banned in the US since 2003 for alleged funding links to Hamas, which it has always denied, and Hhugs, which formerly described itself as a sister organisation of Cage, the notorious Islamist advocacy group are among Al Rayan’s customers.

A recent investigation by French journalists revealed that Nectar Trust, another Al Rayan customer, had received more than £37 million since 2014 from Doha-based Qatar Charity that was allegedly used to fund multimillion-pound Brotherhood-linked projects in Britain and France.

Qatar Charity, which is the largest charity in Qatar, renamed its European arm Qatar Charity UK in 2017 as Nectar Trust in order to conceal its suspicious activities after growing allegations of its involvement in financing Islamists and to avoid suspicions from international banks.

In 2008, Qatar Charity was listed in as priority III terrorism support entity (TSE) by the Interagency Intelligence Committee on Terrorism, according to a US diplomatic cable released by Wikileaks.

“Qatar Papers”, a book published last April by two French investigative journalists Christian Chesnot et Georges Malbrunot , revealed that the charity organisations receiving Qatari donations were all controlled by members of the Muslim Brotherhood.

They exposed the Brotherhood’s strategy of slowly advancing their pawns, sometimes masked, in order to adapt the common law to their conception of Islam - a conservative conception, which strengthens communitarianism in Europe.

Tory MP Zac Goldsmith, who called for called for a rethink of Britain’s relationship with Qatar five years ago, accused the Gulf emirate of “shamefully” supporting extremism in the Middle East.

“If it is also using its considerable wealth and global reach to facilitate extremism here in the UK, then the government needs to act quickly and decisively. The fact that Qatar has invested so heavily in the UK should not insulate it from scrutiny,” junior minister Goldsmith told The Times.

Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton reportedly signed a US cable in 2009 stating that Qatar’s cooperation in countering terrorism was the worst in the region.

Then-pres and Obama and SofS Hillary held Qatar in great regard....increasing their arms deals by 1400%.

Hillary the Arms Dealer
Canada Free Press | 05/27/15 | Matthew Vadum / FR Posted by Sean_Anthony
Clinton Foundation donations funded State Dept approval of arms shipments to repressive governments. During the time Hillary Clinton was America’s Secy of State, she oversaw approved $165 billion worth of commercial arms sales to 20 nations.....governments that forked over millions of dollars to the now-embattled Clinton Foundation. According to an International Business Times report by David Sirota and Andrew Perez, “at least seven foreign governments that received State Department clearance for American arms did donate to the Clinton Foundation while Hillary Clinton was serving as secretary.” The article identified the seven nations as Algeria, Australia, Kuwait, Norway, Oman, Qatar, and Thailand.

Mainstream media’s surprisingly probing coverage of the unfolding Clinton Foundation donations-for-favors scandal suggests that reporters have turned on the Clintons in the age of Obama. And the fact that the IBT piece was co-authored by Marxist author and radio talk show host David Sirota adds to the growing pile of evidence that some of the more ideologically pure progressives in the Democratic Party are ganging up on Mrs. Clinton in order to help as yet undeclared presidential candidate Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.).(Excerpt) Read more at canadafreepress.com ...

(More below--Hillary sucks up to Qatar--arms buyer, and a major Foundation donor.)

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According to the IBT report, “at least seven foreign governments received State Dept clearance for American arms AND are on-record as donors to the Clinton Foundation while Hillary was Secy of State.” Oman and Qatar were named as countries favored for arms sales by Hillary's State Dept.

CIRCA 2002--THE OMAN-QATAR-CLINTON CONNECTION---
The Clinton Foundation took $1,250,000 (that we know of) The Clinton presidential library in Arkansas lists Brunei, Kuwait, Oman and Qatar as donors that gave between $1 million and $5 million (at the time of research). The Clinton foundation itself confirmed the 2002 Brunei donation after Billy flew to Brunei with Jeffrey Epstein): "The Clinton Foundation's impact would not be possible without the generous support of our donors," the foundation's website reads. "Their contributions have made a difference in the lives of tens of millions across the world." Read more at foxnews.com ...

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Qatar became the new home of the Gitmo Five via the infamous Obama-Bergdahl swap. Hillary later told Fox's Greta Van Susteren that Qatar was "not a threat to the US." Hillary never mentioned Qatar subsidizing the Clinton Library/Foundation. Hillary's remarks lead some to believe the donation was a payoff....Hillary bribed to defend Qatar....blatantly ignoring America's ntl security interests.

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LAUGH BREAK The Clinton Presidential Library bills itself as "linking the significance of
a 20th century American presidency with the ongoing
and far-reaching work of The Clinton Global Foundation. (waiting for hysterical laughter to die down) No mention of Clinton being impeached and disbarred for lying.

REALITY CHECK Despite its grandiose self-promotion, The William J. Clinton Presidential Center and Park----
is just another "Clinton Cash" snake pit.....subsidized by taxpayers,....and some shady foreign characters.

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