Positively weird. After a decade-plus of efforts to get the Sunni Arab countries to stop funding or tolerating radical Sunni groups -- and we succeeded to the point where such groups are banned in all these countries, except Qatar -- we get another "nothing to see here" moment. Qatar's representatives and its front groups like CAIR have succeeded beyond their wildest dreams, normalizing themselves and still having a free hand in funding the radical foundations behind SJP, BDS, etc.
At least the Trump state department forced al Jazeera (along with RT) to register as the agent of a foreign government, which it is. Those laws were first passed in the late 1930s when the US had a better grip of what malign influence is.
"civic and moral guardrails" are viewed as dirtier than the dirtiest hand in the get-rich-quick scheme that is America.
Positively weird. After a decade-plus of efforts to get the Sunni Arab countries to stop funding or tolerating radical Sunni groups -- and we succeeded to the point where such groups are banned in all these countries, except Qatar -- we get another "nothing to see here" moment. Qatar's representatives and its front groups like CAIR have succeeded beyond their wildest dreams, normalizing themselves and still having a free hand in funding the radical foundations behind SJP, BDS, etc.
At least the Trump state department forced al Jazeera (along with RT) to register as the agent of a foreign government, which it is. Those laws were first passed in the late 1930s when the US had a better grip of what malign influence is.