Dubai: Activists from different countries around the world announced on Friday the launch of a global campaign against the Qatar’s financing of terrorism.
Press reports, said the campaign was launched on June 30, outside the embassy of Qatar in Vienna through of peaceful demonstration.
“Our global campaign aims to combat Qatar government’s funding of global terrorism and to stand against extremist practices of terrorist organisations financed by Qatar around the world,” the campaign was quoted as saying.
“Qatar’s government provides material and logistical support to terrorist organisations as well as hosts their leaders in its territory. In addition, Qatar is adopting radical and hatred rhetoric of extremism that goes against the culture of pluralism and tolerance toward various ethnic and religious groups; violating the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and international treaties and conventions,” it said.
“Our global campaign against Qatar’s funding for terrorism will focus on international efforts to combat terrorism and violent extremism.”
The campaign also aims to produce information, implement cultural education programmes, and organise international activities for the UN focusing on the social and cultural impact of terrorism and extremism financed by Qatar and means to combat them.
According to press report, the campaign will prepare illustrated documented material that will reveal real stories of victims that were subjected to suffering, and violence by terrorist organisations, and how their lives became better after leaving the terrorists groups.
The campaign also plans to organise a number of human rights, cultural and social events related to the campaign’s themes, in cooperation with international organisations and initiatives against global terrorism.
“One of the most important objectives of the campaign is to spread the culture of diversity, pluralism, tolerance and peace in the face of extremism that have spread in recent years primarily due to Qatari funding.”
The campaign, in cooperation with one of the international legal advisory offices, will file claims for compensation against Qatar for financing global terrorism as it is the cause of a large number of casualties.
