Activist David Reaboi exposed Qatar's extremism in an article in The Washington Times, saying that since Qatar’s most prominent export — the state-owned television network Al Jazeera — was founded in 1996, the Muslim Brotherhood has played a crucial role in programming and setting the editorial line, providing the network’s strong ideologically Islamist backing.

In fact, Al Jazeera is the world’s most successful, sophisticated and influential state-directed information operation.

It is remarkably aggressive in service of Qatar’s foreign policy interests, which include four key elements: undermining the stability of its neighbors, especially Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates; promoting Islamists like the Muslim Brotherhood in vulnerable, Western open societies; financially and diplomatically supporting violent terrorist groups like Hamas, Al Qaeda and the Taliban; and assisting the world’s largest state sponsor of terrorism, Iran, in evading US sanctions as it seeks to develop nuclear weapons.