‘Qatar is Playing the Long Game in the Ideological War’ with University and K-12 Funding

The Clarion Project’s Shireen Qudosi laments Qatar’s growing influence on America’s universities and K-12 education alike, noting that the Islamist regime’s “funding of schools and programs not only inevitably influences decision makers but also primes the next generation with talking points that undermine American excellence and interests.”

Qudosi draws a line from the radicalism that began taking hold on US college campuses in the 1960s and that now threatens "[d]epartments of history, religion, and the humanities,” to Qatar’s civilizational onslaught. As she puts it, “Qatar is playing the long game in the ideological war . . . something the United States should have been planning for on September 12, 2001.”

Cinnamon Stillwell analyzes Middle East studies academia in West Coast colleges and universities for Campus Watch. A San Francisco Bay Area native and graduate of San Francisco State University, she is a columnist, blogger, and social media analyst. Ms. Stillwell, a former contributing political columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle, has written on a wide variety of topics, including the political atmosphere in American higher education, and has appeared as a guest on television and talk radio.
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