Sheikha Mozah, Qatar’s queen mother and head of an international charitable foundation, has two faces. One is the charity that funds education for impoverished girls; the other is the charity that funds religious extremism.
Her foundation has built a mosque in Doha. Last Ramadan the mosque hosted a series of religious prayers and lectures with a preacher who has described the Charlie Hebdo massacre in Paris as “the sequel to the comedy film of 9/11” and another cleric who says, “Jews and their helpers must be destroyed.” The preacher chosen for the mosque’s inaugural prayer service three months ago was Saudi cleric Saleh al-Moghamsy, an unflinching of stern Wahhabism, Al-Moghamsy argues that al Qaeda founder Osama bin Laden died with more honor in the eyes of Allah than any Jew, Christian, Zoroastrian, atheist, or Islamic apostate. The Sheikha was photographed praying at al-Moghamsy’s service. READMORE