The politicians in South Carolina are lining their pockets, but are we enabling those who will one day be fighting against us?
“South Carolina is becoming home to a quiet Qatari military aircraft project,” by Jordan Schachtel, Conservative Review, March 5, 2019:
The nation of Qatar, a tiny Gulf state known for its vast energy riches, tiny indigenous population, slave labor economy, and, of course, its troublesome connections to international terrorist organizations, has commenced a massive but under-the-radar spending spree in South Carolina. Through Barzan Aeronautical, a subsidiary of the Qatar defense ministry-controlled Barzan Holdings, Doha has targeted South Carolina as the location for a major military aircraft initiative. The state is home to several Qatar-friendly politicians and defense industry heavyweights.
Senator Lindsey Graham has held several face-to-face meetings with high-ranking delegations from the $320 billion Qatar Investment Authority (QIA), which has pledged to invest billions into the state. Over the past couple of years, Graham has emerged as one of the major pro-Qatar voices in the Senate. He routinely takes to television and other media platforms to repudiate Qatar’s regional adversaries, while bolstering its allies.
The top donor to South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster’s recent successful gubernatorial campaign is a major Qatari lobbyist. Between 2017 and 2018, Imaad Zuberi, a lobbyist who represents the ultra-wealthy QIA, shelled out over $50,000 for McMaster’s campaign, according to campaign finance reports. Zuberi told associatesthat his donations to Republicans were a way to pay for further access to politicians, according to The New York Times.
On the local level, the mayor of Charleston, which is home to a major Boeing plant, is also a friend to the Gulf state. He has “signed a declaration of understanding to encourage economic development, cultural and environmental cooperation between Charleston and Doha, Qatar’s capital city,” after meeting with Qatari investment officials, The Post and Courier reported.
Charleston is home to Boeing’s 787 Dreamliner assembly plant. Qatar recently spent over $11 billion to order 30 787s and 10 777s from Boeing. Moreover, the Qatari air force has a $6.2 billion contract with Boeing….
In interviews, Qatari officials have stressed that the one-year-old Barzan Holdings project is a top-priority project for advancing Qatar’s defense goals. In November, the ruler of Qatar himself paid a visit to the Barzan research and development center….
Using its huge energy resources turned to wealth to promise statewide development, Qatar has racked up tremendous diplomatic and financial capital with the influential politicians and defense companies of South Carolina, enough that the al Qaeda and Hamas-funding state is apparently set to build military surveillance aircraft inside the continental United States.
livingengine says
Delta Airlines has just released a 15 minute video calling for political action to address the unfair business practices of the Qatari, and Emirati airliners. These Sharia states are smashing rival airliners in Europe, and Australia through government subsidies. Canada has already moved to restrict Gulf state carrier access to Canadian markets.
They are coming in overwhelming numbers. The 539 wide body aircraft on order by the Gulf carriers is more than twice the amount of those on order by the U.S., and China combined. Delta isn’t competing against another company, they are competing against, in the case of Qatar, the richest country in the world.
One cannot watch this without reflecting on the similarities with the ongoing immigration fiasco, and the world wide jihad.
http://news.delta.com/delta-releases-full-length-video-educating-employees-gulf-carrier-subsidies
Jon Sobieski says
Snakes. In the SC.
J D.S says
Once again…Trojan horses aplenty….and S.C is most likely NOT the only state that has bowed to the foreign involvement that appears to be USING them To advance their military capacity…….RESD EVERYTHING THIS ARTICLE HAS TO OFFER.
J D.S says
Hmmmmm…The Border seems NOT to be the only place that we need to declare an EMERGENCY.
Trojan horses and the enemy at the gate.
CogitoErgoSum says
Are we enabling those who one day will be fighting against us? Quran 9:29 contains the answer to that question.
spiro says
duh yeah
unless we just give up without a fight
after all what is more important than the dollar
christianblood says
Qatar, UAE, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, oil-rich Wahhabist gulf states that spent trillions on financing global radical islamist agenda and mosques, imams and even islamic jihadist groups worldwide are also very close US allies! As we speak, along with the US and the West, they are all currently together waging war onYemeni Shiites known as “Houthis” where Saudis and the US are funneling billions of dollars and equipment to Al-Qaeda and ISIS jihadists that are a part of the war on the Houthis. See more of this below:
Wellington says
Gettin’ pretty old, christianblood, i.e., never missing a chance to bash America and the West when, in fact, the real enemy is ALL OF ISLAM, whether Sunni or Shiite (and please, no more crap about how only Sunni Muslims engage in Islamic terror—I, gravenimage and others have given you many examples of Shiite terror, even extending into Latin America, and you just go on and on and on and on and on and on, blah, blah, blah, about how only Sunni Islam is a problem—God bless, Hezbollah and all that shit per you).
Wake the hell up. Realize that ALL OF ISLAM is a menace. And quit making excuses for people like Putin and Krill—and Iran.
But you won’t. My God, you are so predictable.
christianblood says
Wellington
According to (thereligionofpeace.com) close to 35.000 jihad attacks have been carried out around the globe since 9/11. Show me a single one of them performed Shiites and I will agree with you!
Please understand this: when I say prove me a terrorist attack that was perpetrated by Shiites, I mean show me a real terrorist attack like a suicide bombing in a mosque, a cinema, a bar, a church or a school like the one that killed 48 Shiite students in Afghanistan last week! Show me Shiites Ahmadees or Ismaelies beheading Westerners or Christians or Sunnis on video while screaming allahu akbar! Show me Shiite or Ahmady terrorists gunning down people in night clubs or bombing trains, or attacking news paper offices and killing journalists or using vehicles and killing hundreds of civilians as happen in Europe for the past two years or flying planes into buildings! That is what I mean a terrorist attack which is a daily occurrence around the globe! So go, show me a single one of these proven, verifiable terror attacks perpetrated by Shiites or Ahmadi or Ismaely minorities and I will totally agree with you!
PS: My point is that Sunni muslims which are over 92 percent of all muslims are the ones that ones that are terrorizing the world and unfortunately it is the Sunni/Wahhabi part of Islam that the US and the West are allied with andfully support, the Sunni world is led by Saudi Arabia, the perpetrators of the 9/11 attacks and yet your presidents are always bowing to them and are dancing with them!
gravenimage says
Of course, christianblood is fine with Russia enabling a nuclear Iran, and with their allowing a horrific Shari’ah state in Chechnya on Russian soil.
He wrote:
Wellington
According to (thereligionofpeace.com) close to 35.000 jihad attacks have been carried out around the globe since 9/11. Show me a single one of them performed Shiites and I will agree with you!
Please understand this: when I say prove me a terrorist attack that was perpetrated by Shiites, I mean show me a real terrorist attack like a suicide bombing in a mosque, a cinema, a bar, a church or a school like the one that killed 48 Shiite students in Afghanistan last week!…
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It has been pointed out to christianblood that Hizb’allah has been involved in Jihad terror attacks against Israel and Jews,m including the horrific bombing of a Jewish community center in Buenos Aires–still South America’s worst terrorist attack.
But he does not care if the victims are Jews–or Americans, as they often have been.
He has, in fact, lauded such Jihad terror attacks because they have not targeted Mosques.
Wellington says
christianblood: See gravenimage’s 7:23 P.M. post response above as partial refutation of your continued exculpation of Russia, Putin, Shiite Islam and Iran.
You know, christianblood, this is Jihad Watch and not America Watch or West Watch. I think you don’t know the difference. You never have. You use JW time and time again to bash America and the West, not Islam. And ALL OF ISLAM, christianblood, including Iran having a “lipstick police,” the killing of gays for simply being gay AND regularly threatening another nation, i.e., Israel, the only truly free country in all of the Middle East, with total extinction. Hell, even the disgusting nation which is Saudi Arabia, which America has been forced into an alliance with, among other reasons, because of a common enemy—Iran—doesn’t call for the eradication of Israel—and what say you about this, christianblood, rank defender of Iran which you are?
So sick of you. But you do serve one purpose here at JW and it is this—you are demonstrative of how Russophiles look at the world and I say to you now and all fellow Russophiles that you have a warped, highly tendentious, highly self-serving, xenophobic, paranoid view of the West and with zero capacity to criticize those you support, contra so many here at JW who are pro-American, pro-Western, but who regularly criticize America and the West when they eff up. So, no wonder by now Russia is still not free and not in NATO and is looked upon by almost all Eastern European nations (who are only too glad to be in NATO) in the negative.
You won’t get any of this but, for the record, I wanted to say it anyway. And if you respond, no videos or links. Sick of that. Argue your position in your own words.
christianblood says
Wellington
Russia has nothing to do with the subject matter of this discussion!
gravenimage says
In other words, enabling Islam is only a bad thing when the West does it–christianblood does not consider it a bad thing when Russia does it.
And no–scenes of Slavic folk dancing does not make Russian pandering to Islam any better.
Wellington says
christianblood: Please reference gravenimage’s 8:28 P.M. post above. Kinda’ says it all since, 1) never mind I asked you to argue in your own words, no links or videos; and 2) the video looks like something Goebbels and Hezbollah could have collaborated on with Teutonic/Muslim folk substituted for Slavic folk. Oh brother.
Roland says
Back in 2011, Mitchell Bard published “The Arab Lobby”. Time for someone to do an update.
Prebangian says
Qatar has given billions to US universities and schools…along with the donations comes proselyting…Could the word “culture” in this article be code for including the teaching Islam, building mosques for Qataris here : “…to encourage economic development, cultural and environmental cooperation between…”? How much does the US pay Qatar for leasing ground/facilities for the US air base there? They also just joined into a multi-billion dollar LNG project in Texas with a US co..
christianblood says
Prebangian
(..Qatar has given billions to US universities and schools…along with the donations comes proselyting…Could the word “culture” in this article be code for including the teaching Islam, building mosques..)
True! Qatar gives billions to muslim-brotherhood groups around the world, including those in the US like the Cair and others. It also bribes US dhimmi universities and officials. Even Saudi Arabia is even worse than Qatar is a very close ally. These islamist states have money, a lot of it they are using their money power to do every they wish in the Oligarchic, Islamo-phylic, godless capitalist US!
Prebangian says
I appreciate the sentiment but the spelling is Jan, not Jon. (pronounced John, Jon)
Flavius Claudius Iulianus says
“‘Aggressive promotion of homosexuality’: School stops LGBT lessons after backlash from angry parents”
https://www.rt.com/uk/453057-lgbt-school-muslim-protests/
It would seem that in some things, the Mohammadans have more sense than the willfully ignorant.
christianblood says
Flavius Claudius Iulianus
LGBTQ, radical feminism, transgenderism and homosexuality is the new fanatical secular religion of the Western world and they are willing to spread it even by military force, sanctioning and demonizing and even attacking everyone that dares to stand their way of homosexualizing the world! More below:
gravenimage says
Flavius Claudius Iulianus wrote:
It would seem that in some things, the Mohammadans have more sense than the willfully ignorant.
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Do you consider throwing gay people off tall buildings, hanging them, and stoning them to death to be “sense”? christianblood certainly does–he has refused to condemn such murders.
christianblood says
gravenimage
God should apologize to Sodom & Gomorrah for tolerating such scenes as this!
gravenimage says
Christianblood is enraged over rainbow lights at the White House–but of course, christianblood *still* doesn’t have a problem with his Muslim pals slaughtering gay people.
Flavius Claudius Iulianus says
“Aided White Helmets but no hero’s welcome: UK pulls Syria worker’s citizenship, cites Al-Qaeda links”
https://www.rt.com/news/453091-syria-activist-stripped-uk-citizenship/
christianblood says
Flavius Claudius Iulianus
What a surprise! UK along with other Western countries funded, trained and backed the the Al-Qaeda “White Helmets”. In fact, some of the 800 hundred Al-Qaeda “White Helmets” evacuated by Israel were given asylum in the UK recently and yet they pull the citizenship of this particular “White Helmet” leader! Something is fishy here! May be he was not part of the 800 Al-Qaeda “White Helmets” that Trump and Trudeau asked Israel to evacuate!
gravenimage says
Good for the UK!
somehistory says
This is similar to what happened in Florida, Cape Canaveral, and the foreign companies involved in “boxes” and “containers” coming into the port there.
Snakes, all of them. Money is so important to so many people…and politicians always have a greedy hand ready to take “donations” and “growth” funds…and a lot of it goes into those pockets wherein the hands find wallets and keys and….political power.
It’s disgusting. Sellouts, while pretending to care about the citizens and the ‘states.’
Flavius Claudius Iulianus says
“Khan’s London: Bacon, Jam, Butter Ad Banned from Public Transport”
https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2019/03/05/khans-london-underground-ad-groceries-containing-meat-dairy-banned/
gravenimage says
Since when were bacon, butter, and jam junk foods–especially when paired with large amounts of fresh fruits and veggies?
Wellington says
Islam produces many subtle infiltrators and unless one is familiar with the numerous nefarious and deceptive aspects of Islam, which familiarity won’t occur as long as one continues to have an overall positive or neutral view of Mo’s creed due to ignorance of said creed, such people are “ripe for the plucking,” especially if economic incentives are being dangled before them—as here in South Carolina.
I have stated this many times and I will state it again, to wit, ignorance of evil is worse than evil itself because it gives cover to malevolence and thus extends it. Ayn Rand stressed this in many or her writings and statements and there is at least implicitly in both the Old and New Testaments the same sapient warning.
Wellington says
“…many of…” and not “…many or…”
gravenimage says
+1
Rarely says
It is not necessarily a bad thing. It’s a two way street. The more cash these countries “invest” in the U.S. the more vulnerable they are to U.S. pressure. In the meantime lots of jobs are created.
spiro says
I hope your not serious
with the money comes control just like the department of education in Washington has control over local education thru grants etc They will exercise their influence thru their money to our sellouts
they don’t invest the buy
Wellington says
US pressure for what reasons, Rarely? For Qatar to cease being so Muslim? Not a good plan I should think.
Whatever positives might exist, I would contend the negatives far outweigh them because of such matters as 1) oleaginous dawa; 2) yet another opportunity for Islamic terror; 3) the further legitimization of Islam here in America; and 4) the reverse of US pressure, i.e., Muslims holding an “economic card” over the kuffaar precisely because of further involvement in the US economy.
Ideally, I want NO investment in the US by Muslim polities. Yes, this is the ideal that should be striven for and America would be far better off if this ideal could be achieved. The less Islamic influence in America the better. In fact, all Western nations would be better off were this so because cordoning off the Islamic world as much as possible from the West can only aid such great things as freedom, equality under the law, women’s rights, and self-sufficiency.
gravenimage says
It’s far more likely with this insanity that Muslim countries will be influencing us, rather than the other way around.
We don’t need this threat, and should not be enabling Muslim savagery.
eduardo odraude says
Ideally, a containment policy would be applied to Islam, with openings or loosening conditioned on Islamic nations starting to protect freedom of speech on all subjects, especially religion.
gravenimage says
Spot on, Eduardo.
balafama says
stale news ,americans have been selling out their country for an extra bowl of porridge . it happens with chinese ,russian,saudi etc businesses that come to america.
Indiana Tom says
So what planes are they going to make? Kamikaze Jihadi Zero fighters?
Indiana Tom says
Senator Lindsey Graham has held several meetings with high-ranking delegations from the $320 billion Qatar Investment Authority (QIA), to invest billions into the state., Graham has emerged as one of the major pro-Qatar voices in the Senate. He routinely takes to television and other media platforms to repudiate Qatar’s regional adversaries, while bolstering its allies.
Oh gee, it is Mister NeoCon himself who bolsters America’s security right and left with unlimited military adventures everywhere and anywhere.
What a joke. Guy probably has wild adventures with his Muslim butties.
gravenimage says
Qatar, which funds Hamas and al-Qaeda, has begun a massive military aircraft project in South Carolina
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This is insane–no way should the US allow this.
sheliak says
Ultimately, greed is what is destroying America. Our politicians are bought and sold like streetwalkers. How many new mosques are planned for construction in South Carolina? Fort Sumter may be available for conversion.
Terra Nova (I hope) says
Islam is trying to worm itself into all kind of European Air Line companies. The sneakiness that goes around in this business, is really terrible. Air France ,who is together with KLM, without KLM knowing , took 2 Arabian
shareholders on board, and than the Dutch Government bought, without Air France knowing, an enormous amount of shares up,
Then everybody got mad, and then they made friends again, because one does not want the other one to have more saying in the business. And this is ONE BUSINESS TOGETHER.
People are selling each other out , Companies do it, Governments do it. I was born on the wrong planet, not the planet, sorry with the wrong people on it.
If we refuse to change ourselves we will perish, more Universes have gone that way. God gives , but takes too, it all depends on us. It’s like the Hindu’s say, God blows out and creates, but when he inhales, everything disappears.
I have seen a children class, where children were taught” trans gender” with a lot of transgenders there with this enormous make up on, their hairstyles and clothes, they were explaining to children what transgender was, children from about 5 years old and I really was appalled. I have nothing against transgenders or gays, or any kind, but I have something against all the attention they ask for like crazy, we have that in Europe too at the Gay parades. Why can’t you act and dress a bit normal and leave small children out of this until they are older. Children have a lot to work out already at young age and they really become confused.
In the end of class one transgender asked the children: Now and who wants to become a transgender and they raised their hands in the air and yelled all together: me, me , me!. They surely did not understand at all what they were saying and some looked so confused.
I have nothing against any Religion or what you want to be and whom, but do it with normality and not in
excesses, then you are looking for so much unhealthy attention.
Terra Nova says
I think Sheliak is absolutely right, GREED is what is destroying the US and Europe. Our politicians are bought, so are big Companies, so are people on high places, so is the Elite, so is the Cabal and the Illuminati, former Presidents etc.
Well South Carolina, you will be the first, you were one of the prettiest States, but you won’t be any more.
Because beauty will disappear, where darkness takes over, and you lined your pockets again, you followed the money, which you have always done, only now, everything comes in the op. Thank you !!!
Debi Brand says
“Zuberi told associatesthat [sic] his donations to Republicans were a way to pay for further access to politicians ….”
Well, of course. Dizzy them [Republican politicians and supporters of the same] with lavish donations, thereby insuring, , should a sudden “unexpected” push for more Islam-compliance arise, any resistance to it will be, if at all, wimpish. Flaccid.
“He [mayor of Charleston] has ‘signed a declaration of understanding to encourage economic development, cultural and environmental cooperation between Charleston and Doha, Qatar’s capital city….’”
Excellent. Excellent. Soon on the S.C. map we should be able to see, hear tell of, and boast of “New Doha” – think, after the order of Highland Park, Michigan, Dearborn, the likes…, even, dare I say, with any luck at all, Gayle, Sweden perhaps. Wonderful news