Congress must press Qatar for highlighting hate preacher

As Secretary of Defense James Mattis traveled to Qatar on Friday, April 21, his hosts were violating two important pledges in the ideological fight against terrorism. By granting a known hate preacher airtime on state television, Doha was violating then-Secretary of State John Kerry’s 2014 Jeddah Communiqué, in which America’s Arab allies pledged to “repudiate” the “hateful ideology” of the Islamic State and other violent extremists. More specifically, Mattis’s hosts were also violating a 2015 Qatari pledge to keep this specific preacher off of state television.

David Andrew Weinberg is a Senior Fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies. He previously served as a professional staff member at the House Committee on Foreign Affairs. Follow him on Twitter @DavidAWeinberg.

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