Islam has a violent history, and of course that is not taught. Islam was smack dab in the middle of the slave trade, which included blacks and whites across the Sahara Desert. Slavery was common in the Islamic world from Islam’s beginnings (7th century) and continued in some Muslim-majority countries into the 20th century.
Our kids don’t know these stories and the atrocities of Islam throughout history. Why is that? I’m not exactly sure, but it is censorship of sorts to protect Muslims. Qatar is responsible for American kids marching in the streets supporting Hamas and Oct 7. Unbelievable, but the blind follow the Pied Piper of the far left.
The media has no problem reporting on the atrocities of Christianity or Judaism but is silent about Islam, and that is wrong. All IMO.
“Qatar Foundation International, QFI, a nonprofit accused of funneling money into American classrooms for close to two decades, announced earlier this summer that it was shuttering operations.
The move came less than two weeks after the Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy, ISGAP, published a 54-page report accusing the group of having run a soft-power campaign inside American schools since 2009.
Titled “Institutional Capture,” the report says the foundation spent more than $65 million spread across more than 220 programs between 2009 and 2025, touching K-12 schools, universities, teacher-training initiatives and federally funded education centers around the country.
The timing underscores a broader tension.
Qatar has emerged as one of the Trump administration’s closest partners in the region, mediating hostage and ceasefire talks involving Hamas and hosting a major American air base, even as lawmakers from both parties raise alarms over the same government’s money moving through American classrooms.
ISGAP called the shutdown a vindication of its work, yet was quick to point out that one organization’s exit does not settle the larger question hanging over Washington: How much of American education, from elementary reading lists to Ivy League endowments, has been quietly financed by the government of Qatar?
The group’s own statement on the closure argued that the networks and funding mechanisms that it spent years mapping are still very active.
Someone who tracks Qatar Foundation’s programming from outside the United States agrees that Doha’s broader education spending shows no sign of slowing.
“The Qatar Foundation continues operating and funding similar programs across the US from Doha,” the executive director at the American Center for South Yemen Studies, Fernando Carvajal, tells The New York Sun. “The US is a top priority for programs like this; the ISGAP report was not a strong enough reason for Qatar to outright end its programs here.”