FacebookTweetLinkedInPinEmail Having said earlier that it is hard to judge whether specific Gulf attempts at exporting Islam are innocuous or potential precursors to explosive violence, there is no doubt that they are controversial and raise deep suspicions within host states in the West.  In 2012, when Qatar announced plans to invest €50 million ($65 million) … Continue reading ‘Soft power’ financing of religious, cultural and educational networks that nurture the jihadi ideology: Mosques and Islamic centres in the West