Qatar, Pakistan, and Turkey are deeply committed to the cause of the Muslim Brotherhood: namely, the creation of a modern day, sharia-based caliphate.
Qatar is the home of al Jazeera, launched by members of the ruling al-Thani family. Al Jazeera’s main attraction is Yusuf al-Qaradawi, the spiritual leader of the Muslim Brotherhood. He has an audience of more than 60 million worldwide, and has called for the ouster of Gaddafi (who was promptly destroyed with the help of NATO), and Assad. Under Prime Minister Erdogan, along with purging the secular Kemalists of the CHP in a series of show trials,
Turkey has taken measures to restrict the consumption of alcohol and tobacco (with the help of the Bloomberg Global Tobacco Control Initiative), both which are considered haram according to sharia law.
Incidentally, the name of Erdogan’s party, the Justice and Development Party, sounds an awful lot like the party of (Egyptian Muslim Brother) Mohamed Morsi, the Freedom and Justice Party, doesn’t it? Modern day Turkey was also the heart of the last Caliphate, the Ottoman Empire; a new caliphate is what the Muslim Brotherhood is seeking to rebuild. Pakistan, a pioneer in all things Islamist, is known for: BCCI, the most infamous Islamic (sharia-compliant) bank, which worked to finance Pakistan’s nuclear program by way of a complex of black market financing schemes; Jamaat-e-Islami, a Brotherhood-like Islamist party with close links to the Egyptian Brotherhood; providing shelter to Osama bin Laden, and likely Taliban leader Mullah Omar; and, of course, the ISI, whose National Logistics Core co-opted the Taliban.
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