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Qatar slammed for funding ‘terrorist’ Muslim Brotherhood in UK | |
2018-01-09 | |
![]() has been strongly criticized for its alleged funding of the Moslem Brüderbund in the UK by a senior British Army veteran and counter-insurgency expert, who also called the group a "terrorist organization." Col. Tim Collins, who served in Northern Ireland and the second Iraq War, was speaking in Westminster and said the Moslem Brüderbund was a problem in the UK and that the government needed to challenge it more. He also hit out at Qatar for allegedly funding the organization, questioning why they would "hurt a friend." "(The Moslem Brüderbund) has been a problem and continues to be a problem in the United Kingdom and we need to challenge it ‐ and indeed it is challenging our response to terrorism," Collins told Arab News. "In fairness to ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... they are not actively promoting it in this country. I understand why they would have a close relationship with the Moslem Brüderbund given the nature of "We are a close ally and we stood by them in tumultuous times. They’ve been isolated in the Gulf yet we’ve stood by them, we have to ask them to show their friendship and comradeship and stop doing this. "It’s not using leverage, what you say to friends is ’why are you hurting us, why are you doing this?’" Four years ago the UK government ordered a review into the Moslem Brüderbund. The result, the Jenkins Commission, concluded that the organization ‐ while outwardly purporting peaceful means to promote its agenda ‐ was willing to use violence and terror in pursuit of its long-term goals and that aspects of its ideology and tactics "are contrary to the (UK’s) national interests and security." | |
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