And the foundation that gave out the scholarship, ain’t it nice too?

thedailybeast.com

But the pull backwards also is obvious—even with Sheikha Mozah. Her foundation is set to host a series of religious prayers and lectures as part of a month-long annual Ramadan program to be held at the charity’s new lavish mosque in Doha’s Education City. The flier for the Ramadan events promises well-respected religious scholars but among the invited there figures a preacher who has described the Charlie Hebdo massacre in Paris as “the sequel to the comedy film of 9/11” and another cleric who says, “Jews and their helpers must be destroyed.”

Critics say the presence of so-called “hate preachers” like Charlie-mocker Omar Abdelkafi and Aidh al-Qarni at the Qatar Foundation’s mosque, which was inaugurated in March with Sheikha Mozah in attendance, is not unusual. In fact the preacher chosen for the mosque’s inaugural prayer service three months ago was Saudi cleric Saleh al-Moghamsy, another unflinching advocate of stern Wahhabism. Al-Moghamsy argues that al Qaeda founder Osama bin Laden died with more honor in the eyes of Allah than any Jew, Christian, Zoroastrian, atheist, or Islamic apostate simply because he died a Muslim.