Qatar Persecutes Religious Minorities with Impunity

As Danielle Pletka pointed out in her contribution to our August symposium on American universities, Qatar’s generous and often concealed donations are a major source of the anti-Semitic fervor that has gripped college campuses. Yet while its dollars have funded professors who teach students to scream about Israeli “apartheid” and imagined oppression of Muslim citizens, Qatar routinely and systematically tramples the rights of its subjects. Elliott Abrams calls attention to one of the most recent examples: the sentencing of a Baha’i religious leader to five years in prison: