Editing Muslim Brotherhood (section)

====Qatar====
In 1999 the Muslim Brotherhood was disbanded in Qatar. The country's longstanding support for the group has been often explained as determined by a strategic calculus that limited the role played by religion in Qatar.<ref name=":20">{{Cite news|url=http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Middle-East/2014/0418/Behind-Qatar-s-bet-on-the-Muslim-Brotherhood|title=Behind Qatar's bet on the Muslim Brotherhood|last=Bryant|first=Christa Case|date=2014-04-18|newspaper=[[The Christian Science Monitor]]|access-date=2016-06-09|archive-date=16 January 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210116005941/https://www.csmonitor.com/World/Middle-East/2014/0418/Behind-Qatar-s-bet-on-the-Muslim-Brotherhood|url-status=live}}</ref> As the director of the Center for International and Regional Studies at the Doha-based branch of Georgetown University, Mehran Kamrava, posited, Qatar presenting itself as the state patron of the Muslim Brotherhood has caused religion in Qatar to not "play any role in articulating or forming oppositional sentiments."<ref name=":20" />

Qatar's patronage has been primarily expressed through the ruling family's endorsement of Muslim Brotherhood's most representative figures, especially [[Yusuf al-Qaradawi]]. Qaradawi is a prominent, yet controversial Sunni preacher and theologian who continues to serve as the spiritual leader of the Muslim Brotherhood. An Egyptian citizen, Qaradawi fled Egypt for Qatar in 1961 after being imprisoned under President [[Gamal Abdul Nasser]]. In 1962 he chaired the Qatari Secondary Institute of Religious Studies, and in 1977 he founded and directed the Shariah and Islamic Studies department at the [[University of Qatar]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.qfis.edu.qa/files/pdf/Microsoft%20Word%20-%20QFIS_Scholarships%202009-2010.pdf |title=Qatar Faculty of Islamic Studies (QFIS)|access-date=2010-02-07 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090306151209/http://www.qfis.edu.qa/files/pdf/Microsoft%20Word%20-%20QFIS_Scholarships%202009-2010.pdf |archive-date=2009-03-06 }}</ref> He left Qatar to return to Egypt shortly before the [[2011 Egyptian revolution]].

For twenty years, Qaradawi has hosted a popular show titled Shariah and Life on the Qatari-based media channel [[Al Jazeera Arabic|Al-Jazeera]], a government sponsored channel notoriously supportive of the Muslim Brotherhood and Islamism and often designated as a propaganda outlet for the Qatari government.<ref>{{cite journal|last=Kessler|first=Oren|author-link=Oren Kessler|date=2012-01-01|title=The Two Faces of Al Jazeera|url=http://www.meforum.org/3147/al-jazeera|journal=[[Middle East Quarterly]]|access-date=6 March 2021|archive-date=25 November 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211125034847/https://www.meforum.org/3147/al-jazeera|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://foreignpolicy.com/2014/02/19/why-egypt-hates-al-jazeera/|title=Why Egypt Hates Al Jazeera|website=[[Foreign Policy]]|date=19 February 2014|access-date=2016-06-09|archive-date=11 May 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220511205202/https://foreignpolicy.com/2014/02/19/why-egypt-hates-al-jazeera/|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/08/world/middleeast/qatars-support-of-extremists-alienates-allies-near-and-far.html|title=Qatar's Support of Islamists Alienates Allies Near and Far|last=Kirkpatrick|first=David D.|author-link=David D. Kirkpatrick|date=2014-09-07|newspaper=[[The New York Times]]|access-date=2016-06-09|archive-date=13 May 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220513164920/https://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/08/world/middleeast/qatars-support-of-extremists-alienates-allies-near-and-far.html|url-status=live}}</ref> From that platform, he has promoted his Islamist—and often radical views—on life, politics, and culture.

His positions, as well as his controversial ties to extremist and terrorist individuals and organizations, made him [[persona non grata]] to the U.S., UK and French governments respectively in 1999, 2008, and 2012.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/7232398.stm|title=Muslim cleric not allowed into UK|date=2008-02-07|newspaper=BBC|access-date=2016-06-09|archive-date=11 February 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080211003943/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/7232398.stm|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-17512436|title=France election: Sarkozy vows ban on militant preachers|work=BBC News|date=26 March 2012|language=en-GB|access-date=2016-06-09|archive-date=13 May 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220513001702/https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-17512436|url-status=live}}</ref>

Before 2013, however, Qatar had made a substantial investment on Morsi's leadership and had devolved about $10 million to Egypt since Morsi was elected, allegedly also to "buy political advantage" in the country.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-23185441|title=Egypt crisis: Fall of Morsi challenges Qatar's new emir|work=BBC News|date=5 July 2013|language=en-GB|access-date=2016-06-09|archive-date=8 March 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210308083746/https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-23185441|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/af5d068a-e3ef-11e2-b35b-00144feabdc0.html#axzz49s9GGRrO|archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20221210201257/https://www.ft.com/content/af5d068a-e3ef-11e2-b35b-00144feabdc0#axzz49s9GGRrO|archive-date=10 December 2022|url-access=subscription|title=Fall of Egypt's Mohamed Morsi is blow to Qatari leadership|last=Kerr|first=Simeon|date=2013-07-03|newspaper=[[Financial Times]]|access-date=2016-06-09|url-status=live}}</ref>

In December 2019, Qatari Foreign Minister Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani told CNN in an interview that Qatar never supported Muslim Brotherhood and does not fund terrorism.<ref>{{Cite web |title=CNN.com – Transcripts |url=https://transcripts.cnn.com/show/ctw/date/2019-12-15/segment/02 |access-date=2022-04-25 |website=CNN |archive-date=13 May 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220513152624/http://edition.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1912/15/ctw.02.html |url-status=live }}</ref>