Middle East Forum: Qatar is eager to provide cover for all terrorists

American website "Middle East Forum" denounced the participation of a number of American professors and researchers in the activities of a conference that will be held in Istanbul, Turky, sponsored by Qatar and headed by Sami Al Arian, a member of the movement of Islamic Jihad, who was sanctioned by the United States when he taught at the University of Florida.

Al-Arian’s sordid legal history includes being charged with contempt, spending several years in prison, and deportation to Turkey in 2015 as part of a final plea agreement. Welcomed as a hero by President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s lackeys, he is director of the Center for Islam and Global Affairs (CIGA) and professor of public affairs at Istanbul Zaim University. The Americans’ participation in the conference legitimizes both Al-Arian and, more the point, the brutal government he supports.

Since the failed coup in July, 2016, Erdoğan has either jailed, killed or purged virtually every free-thinking member of the Turkish academia, leaving only his Islamist allies. In February, 2018, Al-Arian roused Erdoğan’s professors at another academic conference in Istanbul by telling them that the U.S. is “our enemy.”

The conference’s rogue’s gallery of sponsors includes the emirate of Qatar, ever eager to provide cover for both terrorists – whether of the Taliban or Hamas variety – and Islamists. Demonstrating its alliance with Turkey, it sent a few professors from the College of Islamic Studies in Doha where, not coincidentally, Georgetown has a campus, where Al-Arian’s son Abdullah teaches history. He earned his Ph.D. at Georgetown.

To these professors and others contemplating a conference appearance in Turkey, one is compelled to ask: would you also participate in a conference in Iran, perhaps to applaud the domestic liberties accorded by its brand of Shia Islam, or in Damascus for a colloquium on human rights and the dignity of man with the cream of the Assad regime’s intelligentsia?

Not to get all Joseph Welch on you, but “Have you no decency?”

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