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In a new video circulating on X, Norwegian journalist Rebecca Mistereggen raises a question that should concern every American who cares about national sovereignty and political integrity.
Qatar, that small but massively wealthy petro-Islamic state, has spent years building a glossy image in the West through big-money PR, celebrity tie-ups, and strategic partnerships. At the same time, it quietly enables the very Islamist forces that destabilize the region and push jihadist ideologies far beyond its borders.
Mistereggen lays it out plainly: Qatar’s strategy is to infiltrate the right. She calls out the parade of high-profile Western endorsements, from David Beckham and Jessica Alba to Tucker Carlson, all lending Doha a sheen of legitimacy despite its troubling connections.
Something’s off.
Qatar flies in right-wing influencers and congressmen for opulent Thanksgiving trips, meanwhile Trump puts a ‘terror’ label on MB offshoots… everywhere except Qatar & Turkey.
The MB’s sugar daddy gets a hall pass, why is that?
Then the airbase.. What’s next?… pic.twitter.com/JXCoPuQElN
— Rebecca Mistereggen (@RMistereggen) January 28, 2026
The contradictions jump out.
In November 2025, President Trump signed Executive Order 14362, launching a process to designate specific Muslim Brotherhood chapters as Foreign Terrorist Organizations and Specially Designated Global Terrorists. By January 2026, the administration followed through, hitting branches in Lebanon, Jordan, and Egypt.
Yet Qatar, the Muslim Brotherhood’s most prominent financial backer and host to its Palestinian offshoot Hamas’s political leadership, skates by untouched. Senior Taliban figures still move freely in Doha, too.
Why the pass for the MB’s chief patron?
The double standard hit a new low over Thanksgiving 2025. While the administration pushed its MB crackdown, five Republican House members—Reps. Laurel Lee (R-FL), Marlin Stutzman (R-IN), Abe Hamadeh (R-AZ), Ryan Zinke (R-MT), and Lance Gooden (R-TX) took an all-expenses-paid trip to Qatar. They met with top officials, including Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al-Thani, to discuss “strategic relations.”
Who covered the costs? Who set it up? What was said in private? Those questions hang unanswered.
Mistereggen’s point cuts deeper than photo ops with celebrities. It’s the systemic influence buying: Qatar has funneled around $6.6 billion into U.S. universities (the largest foreign donor by far), with massive sums going to places like Cornell ($2.3 billion), Carnegie Mellon ($1 billion), Texas A&M ($992 million), and Georgetown ($971 million).
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