How Qatar Supports Terrorists Groups- Video

The oil-rich gulf nation of Qatar, which owns Harrod's department store in London, and several other British landmarks, is apparently indirectly and directly funding terrorist groups in the Middle East..

It has been providing arms to a group of radical Islamists called "Libya Dawn", whose allies, Ansar al-Sharia, were responsible for killing US Ambassador Christopher Stevens in an attack on a diplomatic compound in Benghazi in 2011.

It has also been funding a Syrian rebel faction called Ahrar al-Sham, a jihadist group who fought alongside Islamic State for control of the city of Raqqa. Although the groups have since split, the Syrian city has become an Isil stronghold, in which several Western hostages are believed to have been held.

Naturally, Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani, the Emir of Qatar, denies it. And they're hosting the 2022 World Cup series.

Watch video here.

UN Paid Al-Nusra Front $25 Million To Release Fijian Peacekeeper Hostages - Video

A video that has surfaced, allegedly filmed by Israeli Channel 2, purportedly shows the release of some U.N. Fijian peacekeepers that had been abducted by Syria's Jabhat al-Nusra (Nusra Front) on the Syrian side of the Golan Heights.  The al-Qaeda affiliated terrorists had demanded $25 million for the release of 45 peacekeepers, and the U.N. willingly complied- using Qatari money- in spite of a mandate to not "succumb to blackmail."

In the video, it appears that the UNDOF arrived on the scene first, entering from the Israeli side of the Golan Heights. A short time later, the Nusra Front convoy arrives. Then we see what appears to be a Nusra Front official checking his laptop to make sure the money was transferred to their bank account. Then the transfer of hostages begins.

One of the Israeli Channel 2 reporters, from the other side of a border gate, asks in English an "Abu Omar" what he thinks of Israel. He replies, "our goal is peace at the end of the day, with all nations of the world."

Sure, under a global Islamic State.

And they want Israel's help with establishing a no-fly zone.

This is how the terrorists maintain power, they are well funded by fools who pay ransoms.

Video on YouTube here.

Egyptian Cleric al-Qaradawi Boycotts Interfaith Conference In Qatar

Egyptian Muslim cleric Yusuf al-Qaradawi refused to attend the 8th Doha International Center for Interfaith Dialogue conference in Doha, Qatar because there would be Jews there.

“I decided not to participate so I wouldn’t sit at the same platform alongside Jews who still violate Palestine and destroy mosques and as long as the Palestinian issue has not been resolved,” Qaradawi told the Al-Arab daily of Qatar.

“There is no more injustice than what the Jews have caused to our people in Palestine.”

The rest here.

What part of "interfaith" does he not comprehend?

And this man has a show on Al-Jazeera, and is considered a moderate.

Qatari Poet Sentenced To Life For "defamation of the crown prince"

Qatar, a country that apparently supported the Arab Spring in other countries and considers itself a promoter of free speech has proved it is far from being as progressive as it would like the world to believe. Mohammed al-Ajami (aka Ibn al-Dhib), a famous Qatari poet who has spent a year in prison, will spend the rest of his life there for a verse in a poem he wrote that authorities deemed subversive. He was arrested after publication of his "Jasmine poem', which was critical of all governments in the Gulf, not just Qatar:

“we are all Tunisia in the face of the repressive elite."

According to his lawyer Nejib Naimi, al-Ajami was sentenced

“after six hearings, most of them in secret.”

for

"..incitement against the regime, defamation of the crown prince, Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani, and attacking the constitution."

Naimi intends on appealing the charges since al-Ajami should have only received five years max. Life in prison is only applicable with attempted coups.

Al Arabiya criticized Al Jazeera for not reporting the news about the sentencing, but they're headquartered in Doha, after all.

Philip Luther of Amnesty International was quick to condemn the sentence:

“It is deplorable that Qatar, which likes to paint itself internationally as a country that promotes freedom of expression, is indulging in what appears to be such a flagrant abuse of that right.”

It's foolish to think that Arab/Muslim nations will easily embrace the inherent freedoms that are part and parcel of a democracy, if they feel it threatens their sovereignty. It's just not going to happen. So al-Ajami could spend his life in jail for a few critical words.  How pathetic is that?

Man Joking About 'Talaq' on Skype Has His Marriage Ended By Deoband

There are some pretty stupid edicts in every religion, but 'Talaq' in Islam takes the cake. First of all, being able to divorce your spouse simply by saying 'Talaq' three times is a major joke, and not a laughable one. It's absolutely ludicrous that all it takes to divorce your spouse is one word repeated three times. Talaq, talaq, talaq - and bye-bye wife. But it's even more ridiculous that a man who was joking around with his wife on Skype is now divorced because of this idiotic rule, and no-one will bend those rules for the hapless couple. And what they have to go through to 'remarry' is even more absurd.

An e-savvy Qatar resident learnt this the hard way when he typed talaq thrice while chatting with his wife on Skype. He says he did not mean it but Dar-ul-Uloom Deoband has ruled that his nikah stands terminated.

That's not all. For his careless 'chat', the man can remarry his divorced wife only after halaala, a practice under which the woman has to marry and divorce another man before she can marry her previous husband again.

Deoband's fatwa section — Dar-ul-Ifta (DuI) — recently received a written request from Qatar, seeking a fatwa on a rather amusing situation. The youth stated that he was recently chatting with his wife on Skype when he typed the word 'talaq' three times, though he did not mean it and asked if his nikah was still valid.

Dar-ul-Ifta shot back that the nikah stands terminated. "When you pronounce talaq three times, it means talaq has taken place, and it does not matter whether the woman has reciprocated or not. Your wife has become 'haraam' for you whether you are aware of the commandment of Islam or not. You neither have the right to take her back nor solemnise new nikah with her without a valid 'halaala'. After the completion of 'iddah' (iddat) period, the woman can marry where she wishes except you," the seminary said.

As per senior Islamic scholars, 'halaala' requires the woman to complete her iddat period of 40 days beginning immediately after talaq. During this period she is supposed to stay away from celebrations and socialising.

At the end of iddat, she would have to marry another man who should then divorce her. She will be required to go through another round of iddat only then would she be eligible to marry her "first husband".

Why the stupid young man even bothered to inquire about this, if it was simply a joke, demonstrates how incredibly fearful people are in that religion. Had he not written Deoband (an Islamic school in India), he wouldn't be dealing with the situation he's now in. In some ways it's his own fault for being so scared that he felt compelled to ask about it, but the whole idea of  'Talaq' needs to be addressed. Divorce shouldn't be that simple. And not to make an exception when it was said in jest is just plain cruel.