Exclusive documentary reveals secrets of Qatar’s funding of radical groups in Europe
François Mazure offers a compelling documentary on the NGO “Qatar Charity”, a humanitarian organization apparently like many others who leads a double life. In 2017, a whistleblower unveiled a considerable amount of confidential information about the NGO, detailing a program of proselytism and financing of political Islam throughout Europe related to the nebula of the Muslim Brotherhood …
Initially, there is a mysterious USB key delivered to journalists Georges Malbrunot and Christian Chesnot by an anonymous whistleblower. It contains thousands of confidential documents from the largest NGO in the Gulf “Qatar Charity”: donor lists, email exchanges, bank transfers …
An unprecedented leak that details a program of proselytism and funding of political Islam throughout Europe: 140 mosque projects, cultural centers and schools, all related to the nebula of the Muslim Brotherhood. Yet in Doha, the authorities deny any religious involvement in the West.
For two years, the two leading reporters specialized in the Arab world and the director Jérôme Sesquin investigated this program of religious influence exercised on the continent. From the largest project site of the European Islamic Center in Mulhouse, Alsace, to the Museum of Islamic Civilizations, inaugurated 2 years ago in La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland, through a welcoming program for migrants in Sicily Syrian crisis or a training center for imams in the Nièvre with questionable financing, they follow the financial trace of this network to better reveal its ideology.
Thanks to the irrefutable evidence and the analysis of international experts, they confront religious leaders with their double language. But is every funded initiative part of a larger project? And if this program was only the European extension of Qatar’s strategy to focus on the Muslim Brotherhood since the Arab Spring to impose its leadership in the Arab world? A journey behind the scenes of a rich and opaque NGO linked to the top of the Qatari state and the ruling Al-Thani family. A political-religious thriller against the backdrop of the Cold War, which the Gulf countries have been fighting for over ten years.
